Critical Media Practice is pleased to announce the admission of five new students this year:
Ron Grady is a doctoral student in education whose work explores the social worlds of children through participatory and ethnographic methods that involve close observation grounded in and informed by meaningful relationships. His media practice integrates still and moving images, and, increasingly, collage. Through these, he interrogates the typical tenor of the adult gaze toward children and attempts to re-imagine and re-configure extant images of and to emphasize the rich humanity and playful creativity within the social space of childhood. Currently, he’s wrestling with the question: Who is visible and how are they made visible?
Seiyoung Jang is a composer, improviser, and maker who aims to celebrate manifestations of organic forms in resistance of thoughtless sterility, with a focus on intersubjectivity and embodiment. She has studied with Laetitia Sonami, James Fei, Ted Coffey, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, and Pauline Oliveros, among others. Seiyoung obtained her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College and a BA in Psychology and Music from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Seiyoung is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry under the guidance of Vijay Iyer.
Emilia Mello is a Brazilian-American filmmaker, artist, and scholar. Her first feature documentary, See Deus, Sem Demônio (No Kings), premiered at CPH:DOX in 2020 and played at the True/False Film Festival 2021 and MoMA Doc Fortnight 2022 among others. She has a BS from Columbia University in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Emilia is pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies.Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Svetlana Romanova (Sakha/Even) is an artist and filmmaker born in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the Arctic Circle. Her practice centers on the importance of Indigenous visual language, particularly in the Arctic regions and gravitates towards critical self historization. Svetlana is pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies.
Aidan Zentner is a PHD student in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering. He studies the computational capabilities of biomolecular systems and the structural properties of novel materials.