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Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
In 1900, at a time when the city's total Jewish population was only around half a million, New York's Yiddish theaters sold about one million tickets. By the mid-1920s, the city's 14 Yiddish theater houses served some 300,000 families. Yiddish theater arrived in America at the start of mass immigration from Eastern Europe, and it quickly became the immigrant community's most beloved pastime. But as the New York Times explores in its review of our newest exhibition, the theater's legacy extended far beyond the community of the Lower East Side. "A definite if wobbly line connects the Yiddish theater...to the giants of modern American entertainment," writes Joseph Berger in today's paper. "It traces a long road from the ghettos and shtetls to Broadway and Hollywood and the likes of Marlon Brando andBarbra Streisand." The gown Streisand wore in Funny Girl, profiles of Catskills comedians like Jerry Lewis and Jackie Mason, and photos of Frank Sinatra andAlbert Einstein as enthusiastic audience members for the Yiddish theater – all on view in the gallery – tell a richer story of this culture's impact. New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, a co-presentation of the Museum of the City of New York, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the National Yiddish Book Center, and the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, runs through July 31. Plan your visit today!
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
Ableton University Tour
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
Bagels with ITP faculty to talk about what is happening in the department. Open to ITP students and faculty only.
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
ITP alum Andrew Milmoe will talk about life after ITP and recruit for GE Digital
This one-day symposium approaches such things as sound writing, auditory apophenia and “exploding head syndrome” as critical techniques of existence that dramatize the conditional gap between what a life “is” and what it “could be.” In other words, when taken as speculatively pragmatic ways of being rather than simply impassive fantasies, these techniques can be understood to articulate imaginary magnitudes that refuse not only a single scale of relation but a single relation of scale. In this respect, the ludic urge that informs the sense of sound’s being written, (mis)heard, and hallucinated links itself to activities that are more intensive then they are extensive, more expressive and contingent than substantive and determinate. This engagement with what might be called the abstractions of scale is particularly important in a time when capitalism is beginning to draw surplus value from our cognitive and affective faculties, and as new media technologies extend their reach into increasingly imperceptible and seemingly unthinkable domains. Accordingly, the presenters in this symposium employ their own speculative-pragmatic techniques in order to both interrogate the occult economies of abstraction and to advance forms of critical enquiry that scale between conditional and factual modes of being.
Workshop run by SIR, Taeyoon Choi