Museum of Resistance and Resilience Main MenuPraxis #1: Curation and Annotation (Group Project)details of Praxis #1 assignmentPraxis #1.1 War, Memory, And Identity: Beyond Victims and Voice Museum of Resistance and ResilienceProfessor Marjory Wentworth Honor's Class at College of CharlestonPraxis #2 Media Intervention, Multimedia Essay (Individual Project)Entry 2 in our Museum of Resistance and ResiliencePraxis #3 Manifesto of Future Resistance and ResilienceMedia Intervention/Media PostsFinal Course Reflection - A Letter to the FutureDue November 18Vicki Callahanf68c37bed83f129872c0216fae5c9d063d9e11baLisa Müller-Tredecc71af55f5122020f2b95396300e25feb73b6995
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12020-11-12T15:19:47-08:00Abigale Chenc32fc8a69c6a67d01e53a5f7675a76daf88cec07377846gallery2020-11-13T00:25:58-08:00Annie Zheng06f73f1d4eed923be34aff2d2892e21670204942We created a video to accompany this concept in order to immerse readers into what communication would feel and sound like in our imagined society. The video features multiple overlapping voices that cover everything from hate speech to celebrity gossip to other random mundane conversations. This overwhelming information overload, demonstrated by pieces of speech coming in and out of sonic and visual focus, makes it impossible for the listener to fully interpret what they are hearing or seeing before the information slips away. Since the information spoken is not entirely important, that would not be a problem, however, the video also shows that the most important narrative – the poem on sexual assault from our previous post on censorship – has also been wrapped up in the tumultuous sonic landscape, making it almost impossible for listeners to first realize that they should be paying attention to that narrative, and second, be able to pick out what that narrative is. This atmosphere of information and sound pollution, mimics that of a world without censorship. A world drowning in news and drama that the important stories, that need to be heard, are silenced.