The Twin Rivers Media Competition is the first weekend in Might every year in Asheville, NC. All proceeds from the festival, after promotional and different expenses, return to the film makers and media artists. A comparison between the two towns, only 28 kilometers apart, at the moment each part of the euregion Rhine-Meuse-North, however belonging to completely different nation states and political settings, will make it doable to check how wartime experiences have affected the lives, perceptions and narratives of people on both sides of the Dutch-German border and will provide an insight into native and transnational memory and recollections.
Karin Wenz and Annika Richterich investigated how the mines in South Limburg can form up to date native tradition (heritage practices), but additionally how digital tradition and media practices supply instruments to re-applicable heritage (progressive user practices).
Whereas art and heritage practices have at all times been ruled, implicitly or explicitly, by requirements of equity and justice, these requirements are topic to change and are approached in another way from the relevant tutorial fields of anthropology, cultural studies, economics, historical past, law, sociology, and the conservation sciences.
In your third and final yr, you’ll complete this Bachelor programme with a major undertaking, tying collectively analysis, unbiased examine and a presenting your last studio project work at the end of year BAM exhibition. AMMC facilitates attendance at conferences, professional development periods, and case competitions and offers hyperlinks to publications covering arts and media trade news and opinions.
Extra concretely we have an interest in the query how altering technologies of cultural manufacturing (movie, video or digital digicam) have shaped new practices and rituals of memory staging (screening of the films in domestic of public venues) and thereby initiated processes of (re)negotiating user generations and group identities.