Media Arts and Educational Movements in the U.S.

Author: Lamb, Gina
Published: Potsdam-Babelsberg, 2003
Source: Lecture, GMK-Forum Kommunikationskultur: Künstlerische Impulse für die Medienpädagogik. Media Art Meets Media Education, 22 November 2003.

Abstract

According to Gina Lamb, "cross over pedagogical concerns [...] and collaborations spawned new ideas about media education in the late eighties and early 90s". American media artists like Lamb are "interested in capitalist media resistance and giving voice to underrepresented and disenfranchised youth in American society". Lamb discusses examples of where media arts and education have crossed paths. She describes and evaluates some media projects of the 1990s and reports on REACH LA, her own program in a media arts centre in Los Angeles.

Lamb, Gina

Gina Lamb is Program Director at REACH LA, a non profit digital arts program for inner city teens to produce new media works in a variety of genre, promoting dialogue and social activism within the Los Angeles youth community. She also teaches production and theory in the Media Studies Department at Pitzer College.