Scholarship in Sound and Image

FAIN: HT-250993-16

President and Fellows of Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT 05753-6004)
Jason Mittell (Project Director: March 2016 to June 2022)
Christian Michael Keathley (Co Project Director: July 2016 to June 2022)

Two two-week workshops for 15 participants each on the study of time-based media like video and audio in multimodal humanities scholarship. The first instance of the workshop would be for advanced graduate students, while the second instance would be targeted toward humanities faculty and professionals.

In June 2015, we hosted a highly successful workshop, “Scholarship in Sound and Image,” funded by a grant from the NEH’s Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH). This workshop brought together 14 scholars of film and media studies to learn how to produce videographic criticism that incorporates sound and moving images via digital technologies. We are again applying for an IATDH grant, this time to support a pair of two-week workshops, in June 2017 and June 2018. The workshops – whose curriculum is based on a course that has been successfully taught four times at Middlebury College, in addition to the successful IATDH workshop in 2015 – is designed for 15 participants whose objects of study involve audio-visual media, especially film, radio, television, and other new digital media forms. The two iterations of the workshop will subdivide the participants, inviting Ph.D. students in 2017, and faculty or postdocs in 2018.

Associated Products

[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 5.3, 2018 (Web Resource)
Title: [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 5.3, 2018
Author: Christian Keathley
Abstract: Curated by Christian Keathley— Middlebury College This special issue of [in]Transition is the second featuring work that emerged from the June 2017 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image, hosted at Middlebury College and generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities. The workshop brought 15 participants -- graduate students this time -- in film and media from the United States and Europe to work with a team of experts to collectively explore how to produce and conceptualize videographic criticism. The participants had a range of video production experience, but the majority were novices. By the end of the two weeks, all participants had started producing a piece of videographic criticism based on their research area.
Year: 208
Primary URL: http://mediacommons.org/intransition/journal-videographic-film-moving-image-studies-53-2018

The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy (Web Resource)
Title: The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy
Author: Catherine Grant
Author: Christian Keathley
Author: Jason Mittell
Abstract: The Videographic Essay is a collection of writings about and examples of videographic criticism, edited by Christian Keathley, Jason Mittell, and Catherine Grant. As an open access, multimodal site of scholarship, this site will evolve over time, expanding the collection of examples and revising writing as relevant. Earlier versions of some of these writings were published in 2016 and 2019 by caboose books in the volume The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image. This material emerged from ‘Scholarship in Sound & Image,’ three workshops on videographic criticism that were hosted at Middlebury College in June 2015, 2017, and 2018; since 2019, the workshop has continued as part of Middlebury College's Digital Liberal Arts Summer Institute. The three original workshops were funded by two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://videographicessay.org

Prizes

Innovative Pedagogy Award
Date: 4/1/2020
Organization: Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Abstract: Awarded to Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell for this publication, the series of workshops, and curricular innovation at Middlebury.

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