DDM Speaker Series

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The Design and Dynamic Media Speaker Series connects the ECU Community to local and global communities of practice in Design, Film & Screen Arts, and Animation.

Recorded talks are available to our internal community via log-in.

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Previous Talks

2022-23 Talks

Spring 2023 Term
Clara Chan March 30	Finding Yourself in Animation and Filmmaking
Jorge Gutierrez March 28	How to keep your culture and soul almost intact in Hollywood!
Guy Maddin March 20	In Conversation
Nicole Klenk March 16	Taking an aesthetic stance in transdisciplinary environmental research and decision-making
Kristin Reeves March 7	Reanimating Media Cadavers [What Is This Feeling] Media Artworks
Briar Levit February 16	Design Practice and Archives: How spending time with the past can inform the thinking and making of the present
Hayley Morris February 14	Shape & Shadow's Fantastical Worlds
Elene Neveriani January 27	Masterclass
Koji Yamamura January 19	Giving Shape to Invisible Light
Vincenzo Lombardo Janaury 17	Virtual Electronic Poems
Fall 2022 Term
Dr. Celia Cussen November 24	The global reach of an Afroperuvian holyman
Jin-Me Yoon November 23	Artist Talk
Hanna Ahlberg October 27	One designer's journey from products to sustainable systems for IKEA
Dr. Kaveri Mayra October 19	Qualitative Research Methods: iPoems & body-mapping as relevatory tools
Corrie Francis Parks October 12	A Handful of Sand
Karen Byskov September 29	One designer's journey through products, services, and systems

2021-22 Talks

Spring 2022 Term
Artist Film Workshop April 29	NEW WORKS ON 16MM
Arun Ram-Mohan April 1	Let's Talk about Lighting
Katherine Benjamin March 31	Design in Government Digital Services
Atom Egoyan March 31	Atom Egoyan
Rejane Dal Bello March 31	Rejane Dal Bello: Citizen First, Designer Second
Kunal Sen, Sitji Chou, and Diego MacLean March 30	Motion Graphics Alumni Panel
Dr. Renata Leitão March 29	Foundations for a Pluriversal Social Design
Kevin King March 25	Supporting Indigenous language preservation through redefining digital text standards
Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter March 23	Tiny Inventions
Noura Kevorkian March 23	Noura Kevorkian
Nicole Killian March 15	Occasionally a Moment of Openness
Jinko Gotoh March 9	Democratizing Animation, a Conversation with Jinko Gotoh
Behzad Mansoori-Dara Feb 18	A Dive into the Creative Process of Animated Features
Archie Boston Feb 17	Archie Boston: Heart & Soul of Communication Design
Bettina Oberli Feb 11	Masterclass With Bettina Oberli
Fall 2021 Term
Mimi Gellman November 27	Indigenizing the White Cube / Turning Back the Gaze
Sam Gurry November 25	Animated Ecologies
Jennifer Abbott November 24	Film Screening + Q&A \| The Magnitude of All Things
Athomas Goldberg November 18	Virtual Circus Arts
Nicole Killian November 10	tending to the garden: manifesting queer praxis
Nathan Thomas November 5	Nathan Thomas: Animation's Next Big Movement
Elizabeth Klinck November 1	Authenticity, Research, and Panning for Gold
Dan Hicks October 23	The Brutish Museums: Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Desmond Wong October 21	Desmond Wong: A Decade Later
Sadie Red Wing October 19	Designing for Sovereign Nations in Higher Education
Ryan Smith and Adrian Chong September 13	Human Experiences: UX Career Paths
Summer 2021 Term
Montasser Drissi July 22	Why Bi-Scriptual Typography?

2020-21 Talks

Spring 2021 Term
Nayeli Jimenez March 11	Communication Design for Social and Climate Justice
Suresh Eriyat March 3	My Trek Through the World of Animation
Naomi Kolsteren and Vincent Vrints February 25	Vrints-Kolsteren Design Studio
Silas Munro February 23	Bearing Witness: A Designer's Struggle for Integrity
Tina Oullette February 9	Animation Producer at Global Mechanic
Kaho Yoshida February 9	Animation Director and Animator
Fall 2020 Term
Ahmed Ansari November 19	Speculation in Design Intending Towards a Pluriverse: Theory and Praxis
Musa Brooker November 17	Animation
Sasha Constanza-Chock & Victoria Barnett October 29	Design Justice Workshop
Daniel Sousa October 27	Animation
Jane Abernathy October 20	Evaluating Sustainable Product Design
Rebecca Burgess October 15	Building Fibersheds
Ramon Tejada October 9	Puncturing: Or making space(s) as a practice.
Dylan Davis & Jean Lee September 24	Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
Spring 2020 Term
Mark Rutledge March 13	Indigenous Design: Beyond Medicine Wheels, Ox Carts, and Inukshuks
Amanda Strong March 11	Artist Talk with Amanda Strong
Dimeji Onafuwa February 6	What Inclusion Really Means \| A pluriversal approach to user experience

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