Sensory Ethnography Lab




The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary center for the making of anthropologically informed works of media that combine aesthetics and ethnography. Production courses associated with the SEL are offered through Anthropology, Visual and Environmental Studies, and the Graduate School of Design.[1]




Contents






  • 1 Background


  • 2 Projects


    • 2.1 Affiliates


    • 2.2 Students




  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Background


Established as a collaboration between Harvard’s departments of Anthropology and of Visual and Environmental Studies in 2006, the SEL provides technical facilities and support for Harvard's PhD in Media Anthropology,[2] set up in 2007 as part of the graduate program in Social Anthropology. It has been praised as an "innovative initiative"[3] at Harvard to integrate art-making within the cognitive life of the university, and was proposed as a model for future endeavors in the graduate curriculum by the Presidential Task Force on the Arts' Report in 2008.[4] The SEL is managed by musician, anthropologist, and phonographer Ernst Karel, and directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, ethnographic filmmaker of In and Out of Africa and Sweetgrass.[5] In the year-long core class, "Sensory Ethnography," students receive instruction in ethnographic media practices, and create a substantial work in video, still photography, hypermedia, or sound. Advanced graduate students are also provided with training and equipment to produce media ethnographies in conjunction with their written doctoral dissertations.[6] One example includes students working alongside Ernst Karel and visual artist Sharon Lockhart to produce "Sound Safari", a collaborative phonography project, in Bath, Maine.[7]



Projects



Affiliates




  • Silva, Jeff (Daniel). Ivan & Ivana

  • Barbash, Ilisa and Castaing-Taylor, Lucien. Sweetgrass

  • Karel, Ernst. Heard Laboratories

  • Lockhart, Sharon. Lunch Break, Exit, Double Tide[permanent dead link]



Students




  • On Broadway (Aryo Danusiri)


  • Chiaqian (Demolition) (JP Sniadecki)


  • As Long As There's Breath (Stephanie Spray)



References





  1. ^ Pennel, Marilyn. "A Primer in Observation". NewEnglandFilm Magazine. 10/01/2008 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-02.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Description of PhD program, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-26.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  3. ^ Sweeney, Sarah. "Innovative filmmaking marks VES program". Harvard Gazette. 02/05/2009 http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/02/innovative-filmmaking-marks-ves-program/


  4. ^ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20100527083929/http://www.harvard.edu/r/arts_report.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 27, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)


  5. ^ Dargis, Manohla. "SWEETGRASS Movie Review". New York Times. 01/06/2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/movies/06sweet.html


  6. ^ "Sensory Ethnography" Harvard Gazette. 12/15/2006 http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.14/15-anthropology.html


  7. ^ Sert Practitioner Report http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/sertP.html




External links



  • Sensory Ethnography Lab website

  • Documentary Educational Resources SEL Print

  • The Film Study Center at Harvard University




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