Faculty Research and Creative Activities
Faculty Research and Creative Activities
Creative Activities
Jennifer Machiorlatti
2009 Copyright and Creativity in the Digital Age (42:00,
documentary)
Producer/Director, Camera, Online Editor. Produced with Rebekah
Farrugia. Digital video that explores how artists in various media
(visual, music, film) are affected by copyright law. Interviews also
include cultural historians, scholars, lawyers and policy experts.
(status: filmmaker distribution, festival entries).
www.copyrightculture.com
Juried screenings (film festival official selection)
2009 East Lansing Film Festival (Lake Michigan
Film Competition) (East Lansing, MI March 2009) AWARDED SECOND
PLACE, Lake Michigan Film and Video Competition, Documentary category.
2008 Detroit/Windsor International Film
Festival official selection (Detroit, MI June 2008)
2008 Dallas Video Festival official selection
(Dallas, TX August 2008)
Invited screenings
2008 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association Conference. Invited Feature (solo) Screening at annual
conference. (Albuquerque,
NM, February 2008).
2008 University Film and Video Association
Conference. (Colorado Spring, CO, August 2008). Reviewed by John
Schmit, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University.
Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol. 4: “Borrowing and Stealing for
Art’s Sake” (2007, 3:00)
Producer, Editor, Camera. Produced with Rebekah Farrugia. Vol. 4
features artists who employ sampling or mash up aesthetics in their
work, as well as commentary on freedom of expression in the digital
age. www.copyrightculture.com
Electronic Journal webcast
2007 Vagueterrain.net. Quarterly electronic
journal. [Invited contribution].
Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol. 3 : Illegal Art (2006, 12:00)
Producer, Camera. Produced with Rebekah Farrugia. Volume 3 explores
factors of fair use and creative expression. Focuses on the “Illegal
Art” exhibit, curated by Carrie Mclaren, founder of StayFree Magazine
and scholarly interpretation of fair use. www.copyrightculture.com
Distribution
2007 Media Education Foundation DVD: Freedom
of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual
Property. Produced by Kembrew McLeod. Short featured as “extra” on
DVD project. www.mediaed.org [national and international]
Film Festivals
2007 Can Indie Film Festival, May 2007
2007 Waterfront Film Festival, Michigan Lodge
selection (2 screenings) [juried selection]
2007 Battlecreek (MI) Film Festival, [official
selection]
2007 Dallas Video Festival, August 2007
[juried selection]
Webcast or Broadcast
2006 – 2008 Non-exclusive webcast contract for Docupyxx, a
new online documentary channel. Competitively selected for web
distribution/exhibition.[www.docupyx.com]
Invited Screenings
2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts
and Humanities, Waikiki, HI
2006 University Film and Video Association
Conference, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Reviewed by Carolina
Loyola-Garcias, Robert Morris University
Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol. 2: Outsider Outside/Her (2006, 2:00)
Producer, Camera, Writer. Produced with Rebekah Farrugia. Volume 2
illustrates the practice of fair use in an interpretive documentary
short about one woman’s travels abroad and the influence of
television on her U.S. identity. Submitted to the “Fair Use & Free
Speech” competition, sponsored by the Documentary working group of
University Film and Video Association and Center for Social Media.
www.copyrightculture.com
Film Festivals
2007 Can Indie Film Festival, May 2007
Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol. I: Other People’s Art (2006)
Producer, Camera. Produced with Rebekah Farrugia.
Volume I is the first in a series of shorts that examine copyright
law, fair use, art and expression in culture. This volume focused on
visual artists. www.copyrightculture.com
Distribution
2007 Media Education Foundation DVD: Freedom of
Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual
Property. Produced by Kembrew McLeod. Short featured as “extra” on
DVD project. www.mediaed.org [national and international]
Outsider Outside/Her (2005)
Project Creator, Executive Producer, Editor, Writer (Associate
Producer Rebekah Farrugia).
An interpretive-evocumentary, in installation and DVD formats. This
installation explores the emotional, intellectual and physical
effects of traveling outside of the United States for an extended
period. Its primary commentary is communicated through the mother-
daughter relationship and the real letters they exchanged over five
months. Addressed are experiences of self/identity, mainstream media
saturation, cultural liminality, patriotism/ isolationism, and
multicultural immersion.
Public Exhibitions
2005 Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.
(August 1-24) Submitted and selected for “Photon Flow” a curated
gallery exhibition. Premiered at the University Film and Video
Association Conference (Chicago, IL, August, 2005). Curator: Jeff
Warmouth.
Reviewed by Annette Barbier, Media Artist and Professor, Columbia
College.
Wise Women Wisdom Multimedia Installation Project (1994 – 2008)
Project Creator, Producer, Curator, Director, Writer and Camera for
three video documentaries, a multimedia installation (includes
contributions from five invited artists), DVD and website.
This comprehensive project explores the identities of women and girls
through the life cycle. Founded www.wisewomenmedia.com to showcase
and distribute the project and other works by women media producers.
Public Exhibitions (juried or invited)
The full multimedia installation was exhibited at the following
venues, conferences or gatherings.
2008 Feminist Working Group guest lecture,
Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University. [invited, DVD
only]
2004 Art for the Earth's Sake - "Spirit
Matters: Wisdom Traditions and the Great
Work" a gathering hosted by the Ontario Institute For Studies in
Education (OISE), University of Toronto, May 2004, Toronto, ON
[Juried: Curator invitation of installation].
2004 International Digital Media Arts
Association Conference iDEAS EXHIBITION, March 2004, Orlando, FL
[juried DVD only]
2003 Mackenzie Hall Gallery, Windsor, ON.
October 2-5. [Artist Produced Installation Exhibition]
COMMUNITY VIDEO PRODUCTION
2009-2010 Romance sans Parole (November 2009 – February, 2010)
Co-Director, Producer. Co-production with Western Michigan
University Department of Dance. Pas de deux performance with video
projection (two dance teams). Performance – Kalamazoo, MI February
2010.
2008–present Kalamazoo Media Youth Initiative (March 2008
- present)
Senior Coordinating Producer/Educator for youth media literacy /
production project w/ Kalamazoo Public School (KPS) students.
Coordinated media education curriculum, scheduling, team
coordination, HSIRB protocol, post-production editing, publicity and
exhibition. Project partners: Walker Institute for the Study of Race
and Ethnic Relations, The City of Kalamazoo, Community Access Center
of Kalamazoo. Douglass Community Association, Eastside Neighborhood
Association, Boys and Girls Club of Kalamazoo.
Welcome to the Northside (documentary, 2009, 14:00)
A Different Promise: The Evolution of the Eastside (documentary,
2009, 20:00)
Award: Michigan Association of Broadcasters, College Broadcasting
Competition – first place talk show/non fiction category
Our Neighborhood, Our Education: Stories from the Southside
(documentary, 2009, 21:00)
Award: Michigan Association of Broadcasters, College Broadcasting
Competition – first place talk show/non fiction category
Public/Conference Screenings
Clifford Media Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
(February 2009)
University Film and Video Association Conference, New Orleans, LA
(August 2009)
Central States Communication Association, Cincinnati, OH (April 2010)
2008 For the Seventh Generation (10:00 Advocacy non-fiction)
Executive Producer, Faculty Advisor. Produced in Advanced Video
production in partnership with the Detroit Metropolitan Bar
Association Foundation.
Informational/promotional short about the Seventh Generation Project,
which provides services to Wayne County, MI youth and families
currently wards or monitored by the 3rd Circuit Court of Michigan
(Family Division).
Feature Screening
2008, 2009, 2010 Park West Gallery, Southfield, MI.
Played throughout fund-raiser “In Seventh Heaven” sponsored by the
DMBA Foundation, May 2008, April 2009.
Webcast on www.seventhgeneration.org
FOX Student News (2006)
Executive Producer of 30-minute student newscast for WXMI FOX 17,
Grand Rapids, MI. Produced with Jan Kruse. Supervised 15 students in
production. Submitted for ATAS Student Emmy consideration, January 2007.
Regional Broadcast (Grand Rapids market) July 9, 2006
Articles in refereed journals / invited articles
Machiorlatti, Jennifer. “There’s No Place Like Home: Media Art and
The Paradox of
Embodiment in the Work of Annette Barbier.” AfterImage: The Journal
of Arts and Criticism.
34.3 (Fall 2006): 24-28. (Invited, editor review)
Machiorlatti, Jennifer. “Revisiting Julie Dash’s Daughter’s of the
Dust (1993): Feminist
Narrative and Diasporic Recollection.” South Atlantic Review. 70.1
(Winter 2005): 97-116.
Chapters in books
Machiorlatti, Jennifer. “’Children, welcome to your past’ Native and
First Nation Film and Video
as the Enunciation of Interdependence.” Ethnic Media in America:
Book 1, Building a System of Their Own. Eds. Alice Tait and Guy
Meiss. (2005). Kendall/Hunt: 128-151.
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
HONORS / AWARDSAlso see Press Appearances and Grants
2008 Emerging Scholar Award, university
awarded to two scholars for impact on the state of scholarship or
advancement of knowledge in the discipline, impact beyond the
discipline or on the general public, evidence of international
professional recognition, evidence of outstanding promise to achieve
renown in continuing work.
2008 Top 3 paper – Cultural Studies
Association, Visual Cultural Division. “Feminist Art Area
“Feminism’s Red Road: Activist, Archival and Anarchy Aesthetics in
Indigenous Women’s Cinema and Video Art.”, New York, May 2008.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: RESEARCH
2010 “Youth Media Programs: Media Literacy and
Self Representation.” Central States Communication Association,
Cincinnati, OH, April 2010.
2009 “Youth Media Programs: Media Literacy,
Training and Self Determination.” University Film and Video
Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 2009.
2009“A Story about Storytellers: Working
with Indigenous Women and Film andVideo.” Presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association
Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Feb 2009
2008 “Ecocinema Aesthetics in Native and First
Nations Filmmaking.” University Film and Video Association
Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, August 2008.
2008 “Feminism’s Red Road: Activist, Archival
and Anarchy Aesthetics in Indigenous Women’s Cinema and Video Art.”
Cultural Studies Association, Visual Cultural Division (Top 3 Paper -
Feminist Art Area), New York, May 2008.
2008 “Subverting the Popular, Reclaiming
Identity and Building Bridges:
Emerging Native and First Nations Women’s
Film and Video.” Southwest
Popular Culture Association, Indigenous Cinema Division,
Albuquerque, NM,
February 2008.
2007 “Ecocinema, Ecojustice and Native
Worldview.” Indigenous Film and Media in International Context.
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2007.
2007 “Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol 3:
Illegal Art” screening and discussion of the Best Practices for
Documentary Filmmakers (a fair use document). Hawaii International
Arts and Humanities conference, Honolulu, HI, January 2007.
2007 “Ecocinema, Ecojustice: Native and First
Nations Film and Video as Cultural Recovery.” Hawaii International
Arts and Humanities conference, Honolulu, HI, January 2007.
2006 Chair: “Teach Your Children Well:
Communication and the Continuing Crossroads of Social Justice
Scholarship and Critical/Cultural Studies” Central States
Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN. Panel participants
included graduate students from WMU Media Theory course.
2005 “Recovering From the Wound of Race-Based
Genocide: Native and First Nation Media as Social Activism and
Cultural Recovery.” Clarence, Condoleessa and Colin: Dismantling the
House that Race Built Conference / Race Matters in the Media panel.
Western Michigan University, February, 2005.
2005 “Ecocinema and the Aboriginal Aesthetic”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. London, United Kingdom, March
2005.
2005 “Narratives of Border Crossing: Native
and First Nation Ecocinema, Literature and Cultural Continuity.”
Film and Literature Conference. Florida State University, January,
2005.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: SCREENINGS
2009 “Kalamazoo Youth Media Initiative.”
University Film and Video Association Conference, New Orleans, LA,
August 2009.
2008 “Copyright and Culture in the Digital
Age” University Film and Video Association Conference, Colorado
Springs, CO, August 2008.
2008 “Copyright and Culture in the Digital
Age” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM,
February 2008. Invited solo/featured screening.
2007 “Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol. 3
Illegal Art” Hawaii International Arts and Humanities Conference,
Honolulu, HI, January 2007.
2006 “Copyright, Culture (remixed) Vol. 3
Illegal Art” University Film and Video Association Conference,
Chapman University, Orange, CA
2005 “Outsider Outside/Her” a multimedia
installation (w/Rebekah Farrugia). University Film and Video
Association Conference, new media section, Columbia College of
Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2004 “Wise Woman Wisdom DVD” University Film
and Video Association Conference, New Media section, University of
Toledo, Toledo, OH.