kathleen sweeney ::::: video-text :::: educational media projects

Media Studies Faculty, The New School, NY
Original multimedia curricula for courses combining pop cultural analysis, video production, creative writing, blogging, viral media research.

Kings and Queens of Comedy. Comedians as agents of social change, gender and comedy, public performance and activism.

Hero(ine)s. Multimedia course on archetypes and icons from Greeks mythology to millennial superheroes. Comic books, graphic novels, advertising, animé, film and fiction analysis of multicultural regendering of heroes and heroines since the 90s.

Beyond iCelebrities: Social Networks and Social Activism. Online course on social media messaging, altruism, and philanthropy conducted via multimedia blog and Skype.

Eureka Icons of Media History. Overview of media inventions from cave paintings to the Internet. Weaves cultural theory and media literacy through the lens of key media inventions that have changed human consciousness throughout time.

Youth Media Residencies

Teaching Artist/Project Director
DIA:Beacon 2004-2008

Seeing Like a Camera. Annual Video and Art History project teaching teenagers innovative ways to explore the DIA collection through the camera lens. Media literacy, art history, photography, storyboarding, video production and editing.

Reel Grrls/911 Media Arts Center. 2006
Icons. Media Literacy, Creative Writing, Storyboarding, Scripting and Video Editing workshops for teenage girls culminating in experimental video portraits shown at final public screening.

Reel Grrls, Seattle, WA. 2003
SuperGirls. Writing and storyboarding workshop exploring pop culture icons of female power toward the creation of a SuperHeroine narrative.

Maiden USA/Reel Grrls, 2001
Creative writing, storyboarding and video production workshop series and collaborative five-screen video installation project with teenage girls, exploring body language, identity and heroines from popular culture. On view at 911 Media Arts Center June-July 2001. "Maiden USA/Reel Grrls" selected by NEA as one of its top ten funded arts-for-youth projects of 2001. www.ReelGrrls.org

Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2001-2002
Crash Site: Hindsight. Workshop series combining media literacy, video journalism, video art, performance art and installation culminating in youth media presentation and 9/11 memorial installation, Garrison, NY. Funded by Putnam Arts Council.

Gender Benders, media literacy, video art and performance workshop for teenagers on popular culture and gender, Garrison, NY. Funded by Putnam Arts Council.

Guest Artist, Children's Media Project, 2001.
Teen Vids Workshop. Video self-portrait installation project.

Educational Media & Residencies

My educational work dialogues with pop culture, social media and contemporary art, as entry points into a collective vocabulary.

Teaching is a collaborative art form.