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Our channel on Youtube

 

The Department of Culture, Creative Media, and Industries has created a channel on YouTube. The channel will feature audiovisual productions (films, video art, videos) that have been produced within the framework of courses or activities of the Department.

 

The first video that was uploaded is a student Ethnographic film trailer showing films made by students at the Studio-Class/seminar “Communities and Culture: Visual Ethnography Lab”. Winter Term 2022/23, Department of Media, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly. Taught by Konstantinos Kalantzis, TA: Konstantinos Diamantis.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@DepartmentOfCultureAndNewMedia

Student Ethnographic film trailer

Student Ethnographic film trailer showing films made by students at the Studio-Class/seminar “Communities and Culture: Visual Ethnography Lab”. Winter Term 2022/23, Department of Media, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly. Taught by Konstantinos Kalantzis, TA: Konstantinos Diamantis.

 

“Communities and Culture” teaches students how to use visual media in order to study and represent social experience in a given context. Students are introduced to an array of theoretical conversations concerning representation, culture and ethnography, particularly as it concerns film and photography. They later on form groups through which they design and undertake an ethnographic study, which culminates in a short ethnographic documentary or a photo-essay. During term time, students receive extensive feedback on their projects and also get to delve into diverse examples of visual work in anthropology and beyond.

 

 

International Workshop in Theory and Sound II, Αugust 28-30, 2023

 

International Workshop in Theory and Sound II
Pelion, Moni Paou, Greece
Αugust 28-30, 2023

 

Mediterranean (post)colonialisms

 

Co-organized by the department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology and the department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly.

 

The theoretical workshop seeks to rethink the “Mediterranean” as a relational and elusive musical place emerging through its multiple, unfinished trajectories and temporalities, as well as a multivalent discursive/sonic field for a radical critique of modernity activating contingencies for unlearning history. Drawing upon paradigms from the Mediterranean “East”, it is motivated by the reconsideration of the Mediterranean less in terms of a fixed, spatial category and more as a musical idea: to re-imagine and listen to the Mediterranean as an unruly, incomplete archive of sounds and as a “boundless sea” of genres and voices to be performed, of sonic odysseys to be (re-)mapped, of connectivities and disconnections to be (re-)appraised.

 

To register, visit the site.

 

Promoting Inclusion: Our Response

On 30th December 2022, in the framework of the course ‘Educational Actions and Cultural Mediation’ of the Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries (DCCMI), University of Thessaly, the educational action ‘Drag Queens Read Christmas Fairy Tales / ‘Drag Xmas’ took place in Thessaloniki. The event was admission-free. It was co-organized by Thessaloniki Pride and Rainbow Families, two civil society organizations known for their contribution to the fight against homophobic hatred and racial prejudice. The event was the practical application of a project by a group of DCCMI’s third-year students, and as such it was supported by DCCMI. DCCMI embraces educational activities linked to educational actions and contemporary pedagogies of inclusion as stated in the department’s relevant curriculum. This activity was carried out within the framework of a course which explores pedagogical approaches. The department supports the faculty members’ actions both in the framework of academic freedom and in the framework of exploring and experimenting with new methods and approaches related to cultural, artistic and pedagogical practice. The above exploration is an integral part of the department’s orientation.

 

DCCMI provides interdisciplinary education on issues related to culture and practices of cultural production in contemporary environments. The rationale and necessity of this action is informed by contemporary cultural and pedagogical theories that express the interdisciplinary articulation of knowledge. Readings of fairy tales by drag queens with educational and cultural aims are widely carried out in many countries of the world. A similar action was carried out in Greece in 2019 in the framework of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Drag Queen Story Hour). As befits a university department of culture, DCCMI supports the action ‘Drag queens read Christmas fairy tales / Drag Xmas’ in order to contribute to the empowerment of artistic expression, the promotion of inclusion and the respect of diversity. Besides, DCCMI considers academic freedom, the scientific validity of modern pedagogies, and the connection with society as non-negotiable, established rights of the public university. DCCMI intends to take all necessary measures to safeguard academic freedom and security and to protect students, teaching staff, and the wider academic community from racist, homophobic and transphobic attacks. The present statement is strongly endorsed by the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committee of the University of Thessaly, which attends to similar issues.

Ιnternship program “DIAPLASIS”

The Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries participates in the interdisciplinary six-month internship program “DIAPLASIS”, which was created on the initiative of the Television Station of the Hellenic Parliament.

During the years, in the Hellenic Parliament, “DIAPLASIS” has been developed as a creative internship of selected university graduates from the Departments of Cinema, Audiovisual Arts, Communication & Media, Theatre and Music Studies, Graphic Design and Architecture. The programme aims to the production of television content through the creation of a series of short documentaries and/or video works to be broadcast on the Television Station of the Hellenic Parliament, at the section “Foititivismata”.

 

After an open invitation to upcoming graduate students, the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, set up a Committee of Faculty members to evaluate the nominations. Based on specific evaluation criteria set by the Department (decision no. 49th/19.12.2022 of the regular meeting of the Department’s Assembly), the Committee qualified the student Konstantinos Maragkos for the subsidized position of the “DIAPLASIS” programme for the time period of February 1 to July 31, 2023. Evaluation Committee: Maria Paschalidou, Assistant Professor and Liaison for the “DIAPLASIS” programme, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Assistant Professor, Apostolos Kordas, Permanent Member E.D.I.P.