THE CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

medium/archive | 2019-2020 Theme

UPCOMING EVENTS

FIELD TRIP
On Oct. 27th at 2PM, join us on a CEE/CAMRA walk-through of the immersive exhibit, Quarantine Play, curated by Aislinn Pentecost-Farren (Grad Student in UPenn’s School of Design)
3RD THURSDAY
On Oct. 17th at 12PM, join colleagues at Annenberg for CARGC lunch and a book talk by Alex Fattal, author of Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Columbia. The book explores how the market has become a principal ground for counterinsurgency warfare and the imagination of postconflict futures.
FILM SCREENING
Premiering  on Sunday Oct. 13 at 2pm at the Penn Museum, Dede I Brought You Back (Dir. Megan Kroon, 2018) showcases a special story about bi-cultural life and the sense of disconnect that inevitably follows. 

MONTH IN REVIEW

3RD THURSDAY

On Sep. 19th, scholars, students, and members of the public joined together for the first of CEE's monthly lunch gatherings (held on the 3rd Thursday of each month). Attendees enjoyed chaat and lassi alongside creative project-building conversations. This month, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren joined us from Penn Design to jumpstart a conversation about interactive exhibition design. 

HOSTILE TERRAIN : 94

In September, we co-sponsored a film screening, panel discussion, and pop-up exhibit of Jason de León’s (UCLA) cutting-edge anthropological work. Held at the Penn Museum, the interactive "Hostile Terrain: 94" exhibit brought together participants from Penn and from across Pennsylvania to handwrite thousands of toe tags which were then placed on a map, each one representing a human body recovered from the migrant trail. 

SHAINA ANAD

 On September 24 we were delighted to host filmmaker and artist Shaina Anand for a lecture, screening and discussion of her project The Neighbor Before the House, which follows eight Palestinian families living in and around Jerusalem city as they look out into their neighborhoods using CCTV cameras mounted on the rooftops of their home. Anand's feature-film is part of a long body of experimental works by CAMP

CURRENT FELLOW

ERNST KAREL 
Photo by Domenico Singha Pedroli
Ernst Karel works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm [film/video], with an emphasis on observational cinema. His work focuses on the practice of location recording and composing with unprocessed location recordings. From 2006 through 2017, Ernst managed the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center at Harvard University, where he collaborated with filmmakers and taught courses in reality-based audio.  
Photo (background) by Ernst Karel

SUBMIT YOUR MEDIA WORK

 The 8th Annual SSMF will be held on March 27th-28th, 2020 at the University of Pennsylvania and is a hybrid of a film/media festival and an academic conference. We invite submissions from scholars, activists, artists, filmmakers, and educators of all backgrounds that creatively explore the theme of “Rupture and Repair.” The submission system will be open until November 20, 2019. ....read more

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