Sensory Ethnography Lab

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,Description of PhD program, {{cite web |url=http://sel.fas.harvard.edu/phd.htm |title=Sensory Ethnography Lab :: Harvard University |accessdate=2010-06-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312091213/http://sel.fas.harvard.edu/phd.htm |archivedate=2010-03-12 }} set up in 2007 as part of the graduate program in Social Anthropology. It has been praised as an "innovative initiative"{{Cite web |last=Office |first=Sarah Sweeney Harvard News |date=2009-02-05 |title=Innovative filmmaking marks VES program |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/02/innovative-filmmaking-marks-ves-program/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/r/arts_report.pdf |title=Report of the Task Force on the Arts |accessdate=June 26, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527083929/http://www.harvard.edu/r/arts_report.pdf |archivedate=May 27, 2010 }} The SEL is directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, ethnographic filmmaker of [https://web.archive.org/web/20101114095529/http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/arts_humanities/in_and_out_of_africa In and Out of Africa] and Sweetgrass.{{Cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=2010-01-05 |title=Montana Cowboys Lead, Coax and Cajole Their Charges Amid a Chorus of Bleats |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/movies/06sweet.html |access-date=2022-10-07 |issn=0362-4331}} 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."Sensory Ethnography" Harvard Gazette. 12/15/2006 http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.14/15-anthropology.html One example includes students working alongside Ernst Karel and visual artist Sharon Lockhart to produce "Sound Safari", a collaborative phonography project, in Bath, Maine.Sert Practitioner Report http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/sertP.html

• Silva, Jeff (Daniel). Ivan & Ivana
• Barbash, Ilisa and Castaing-Taylor, Lucien. Sweetgrass
• Karel, Ernst. [http://www.and-oar.org/pop_and_35.html Heard Laboratories]
• Lockhart, Sharon. [http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/lunch_break Lunch Break], [http://roski.usc.edu/news/faculty-sharon-lockhart-film-s.html Exit], [http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/main-program/double-tide.html Double Tide]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• [http://sel.fas.harvard.edu/works.html On Broadway ] (Aryo Danusiri)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100717002524/http://www.der.org/films/demolition.html Chaiqian (Demolition)] (J.P. Sniadecki)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716234650/http://www.der.org/films/harvard-sel-series.html As Long As There's Breath] (Stephanie Spray)

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• [http://sel.fas.harvard.edu Sensory Ethnography Lab website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716234650/http://www.der.org/films/harvard-sel-series.html Documentary Educational Resources SEL Print]
• [http://filmstudycenter.org The Film Study Center at Harvard University]

Category:Anthropology

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