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FDM/Porter Visiting Artist: Kara Oehler

Mon, May 12, 2014, 7:00 pm
Location: 
Communications 150 (Studio C)

Public Artist Talk

Media artist Kara Oehler will discuss her work from the past decade, ranging from audio documentaries to sound installations to interactive platforms for new forms of visual language.  Primarily, Oehler creates aesthetically experimental audio and interactive documentaries to engage and refamiliarize people with everyday stories and pressing issues, striving to keep much of their uncertainty, cruelty, sparseness, whimsy, and clatter intact.  

Kara Oehler is a radio documentary maker, media artist, and Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Pop, a new way to speak in GIFs, photos, and videos.  Inspired by montage and the origins of filmmaking, Pop makes it easy to put any two pieces of media together.  Her Peabody award-winning radio work has aired on shows like RadioLab, Marketplace and Morning Edition, and her interactive storytelling projects have been exhibited at MoMA and SFMoMA.  She co-founded the interactive platform Zeega, the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, metaLAB at Harvard, Yellow Arrow:: Capitol of Punk and Mapping Main Street.  Previously, Kara was a Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Rockefeller Fellow with United States Artists.