By Ambar Reyes This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Prison X” Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New Frontier section. Here, Ambar Reyes explores two projects that tackled...
By Srushti Kamat This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Beyond the Breakdown” Editor’s note: Each year, IndieWire collaborates with MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program by inviting students to reflect on Sundance’s New Frontier program. Sundance’s New Frontiers’ team...
By Andrea S. Kim This article was originally featured in Indiewire. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] “Secret Garden”[/caption] Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New...
“Mindscapes: An Exploration of Audiovisual Mental Health Literacy” is a white paper in-progress by ODL Fellow Anita Rao exploring the intersection of mental health literacy and the media. The white paper,...
By Andrea S. Kim This article was originally featured in Indiewire. [caption id="attachment_18831" align="alignleft" width="1024"] “Spaced Out”[/caption] Since its advent, Virtual Reality (VR) has promised experiences that could detach its users from their...
By Samuel R. Mendez This article was originally featured in Indiewire. [caption id="attachment_18827" align="alignleft" width="1024"] “Anti-Gone”[/caption] You can be a mushroom carrying out bioremediation. You can be a bug sliding down an esophagus. You...
By William Uricchio Published in Early Popular Visual Culture in September 2011 Abstract The panorama entered the world not as a visual format but as a claim: to lure viewers into seeing in a particular...
By William Uricchio Published in Situated in Translations: Cultural Communities and Media Practices in April 2019 Read the full article here....
By William Uricchio Published in Los Angeles Review of Books on July 25th, 2018 Virtual reality has found its place in the sun. Newspapers now keep tallies of presidential lies, bots drive social media,...
By William Uricchio Published in Urban Interfaces: Situated Media, Art, and Performance in Public Spaces in 2019 Abstract Humans have long ‘marked’ the world, cities included, augmenting their surroundings with traces of their...