What is an archive? What gets archived by and for whom? What does it mean to preserve a collection of photographs, songs, recipes, audio, video, or any other kind of media? In this class, students take these questions as starting points for inquiries that bring ethnographic methods into conversation with arts-based research in two video projects—one group, one individual—addressed to alternative histories of topics they choose and develop over the semester.
ANTH-327 is an interdisciplinary class co-taught with Prof. Virginia Kuhn’s IML 423, Remixing the Archive in Media Arts + Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts. If you have questions, contact Jennifer Cool at cool@usc.edu
Final Projects from Spring 2024: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/media-ethnography-living-archives/index
Spring 2025
