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Despite this demonstrated interest in the subject matter, Harvard students can face organizational challenges to pursuing new media academically. J. D. Connor ’92, the concentration advisor for the VES Department, explains that often when students are interested in multimedia design, “they’ve gone to MIT, which has a really robust media studies program,” whereas “Harvard tends not to have a lot of that.” Though the VES concentration’s film/video track allows students to study a variety of new media concepts such...
Still, the lack of an academic department devoted to new media has not stopped some students from pursuing multimedia studies. Last year, Charlie I. Miller ’08 devised a VES senior thesis that retold the Faust legend as what he calls “a multimedia production that fully integrated video and live performance.” The project, entitled “Username: Faust,” heavily utilized YouTube and other Internet components to convey a virtual reality world that replaced the spiritual realm of the original Faust myth. Miller praises his adviser, VES Professor Alfred...
...VES professor Ruth S. Lingford, who is Gray’s thesis advisor, said that it was ironic that an art form that was previously considered “demographic and amateur” is now prominently displayed in galleries...
...Visual and Environmental Studies department to be granted concentration status. While today’s Task Force will benefit from the example of the Brown Report, current students are unlikely to reap the benefits of its findings before they graduate.Trevor J. Martin ’10, a VES concentrator and member of the Harvard College Art Society, is well aware of this fact. “It’s sad, but also really nice to know that I’ll visit the University and see how these initiatives have moved forward,” he says...
...point bears considering. We VES and music and English concentrators knew we were going to struggle once we left college, but we resigned ourselves to it because we were following our passions. In their defense, so were the economics students. It just happened that their passion was making lots of money. But given the current state of Wall Street, this dream seems increasingly remote. Nowadays, if money is what you love, you should probably...