Multidisciplinary Class Fall 2008 Atlas Center for Arts, Media & Performance
Class title: World Music Video Projects as Catalyst for Social Change
I am seeking Student Social Change Entrepreneurs and Innovators who have
interest, working knowledge, and some applied experience in the following
areas: Economic Development and Environmental Economics, Music
performance, production and/or technology, Broadcast Journalism, Film production and
technology, Art and Design, Art History, Fine Arts, Digital Media,
Photography, and Marketing.
We will virtually join forces with our music and art friends around the
world who are also working with or developing organizations promoting positive
social change. We will document and assist international social change projects
existing in Australia, Peru, Japan, Brasil, Africa, and Lebanon by creating original
contemporary world music videos to deliver the message surrounding their
economic and social needs.
Our music and art collaborateurs in these regions will provide audio,
pics, ideas, descriptions, goals and missions for our class videos, and we will
provide the same to them. We will produce music and video DVD’s that bring
these projects to life through the appropriate and creative use of music and
video. The final products will be disseminated to viable social action networks
involved in community development with the assistance of my fellow
international collaborators as well as new associates to be identified from
networking and study by the students.
My aim is to have a heightened awareness develop in each of the students
from the cross-fertilization of interdisciplinary work and discussions that can
be enhanced from this kind of hybridization of otherwise independent fields.
Students of Art and Econ, Music and Marketing, Film and Econ, Film
and Music, Journalism and Photography will intersect and meld their skills and
perspectives to create new ways of looking at the world.
There will be ~ 5 students on each team, each from different disciplines.
Students will network by email and other communication media among themselves (intra-CU by means of the wiki sites or dedicated ATLAS portals)
and globally with the individuals and organizations involved in music and the
social action reality and development opportunities.