Blog #4: MoMI
Museum of the Moving Image Visit and Blogging Assignment
DATE: Wednesday, May 2
TIME: 1PM – 3PM Note: This trip is during “Dean's Hours” as the museum is closed in the evening when we have our lectures. This is a guided tour and the actual time is 90 minutes, from 1:15PM to 2:45PM. This means that most people will be able to get to the Museum and back to Hunter in a timely fashion.
The Museum of the Moving Image on 35th Avenue at the corner of 36th Street in Astoria is our destination. The Museum has fairly recently re-opened and has a variety of exciting new exhibits. See (www.movingimage.us)
There will be NO lecture on that evening. Instead we will be going to the museum as a class. You are welcome to stay afterwards. Please sign in with your instructors and give them your Hunter ID number. (This is important as we don't get reimbursed if you forget!)
DIRECTIONS: From Hunter, you take the IRT to 59th (or walk down). Then take the M or R train to Steinway Street. (NOT the “N” which goes to a different stop) Use the 34 Avenue exit near the end of train. Walk south along Steinway Street; turn right on 35 Avenue. Proceed three blocks to Museum entrance just past 37 Street. Check www.movingimage.us for other options.
At the museum you will find exhibits and demonstrations relating to many aspects of media production. Your assignment is to go to the museum and, with your group, experience at least one of those demos, and report on your blog about that participation. In this blog you should make an effort to explain what you discovered about a specific aspect of media production, what you learned that you didn’t know before, in a way that might communicate to the non-initiated. How have the changes in moving image technology changed the way moving images are created, how they look, and how we experience them?
This blog is 250 words in length. Due at the start of Lab #13, on May 7th.
NOTE: Some of you may not be able to join the field trip. You have a couple of options.
1. You can go to the museum on your own and do a 'self-guided' tour. You will have to pay regular entrance fee.
2. You can go to another institution which has media related exhibits and blog about your experience. The most likely is the Museum of Modern Art, which is free to Hunter students. They have regular film programming. If you want to go on Wednesday evening when we normally have our class here is one option: The film "In the Last Days of the City" by Tamer El Said, Screening on Wednesday, May 2, 7:00 p.m
3. There is also a retrospective of the work of the great Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi that runs at MOMA through April 29th.
4. The Whitney is another option that is free for Hunter students. There is a show of the media artist Zoe Leonard currently running that should be interesting. See: https://whitney.org/
Blog post for alt assignment still due at the start of Lab #13, on May 7th. 250 words minimum.
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