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Frost, Steven Earl

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Research

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  • Textiles are a powerful medium -- their association with the body and garments evoke tactile memories. Using weaving, Steven Frost combines yarn and cotton with non-traditional weaving materials from a range of sources, exploring the ways history and time are embedded in materials. Their materials evoke specific narratives and stories, referencing aspects of the artist’s personal and family history, the history of the LGBTQ rights movement, and the recent Women’s Marches, among other topics. In workshops and interactive performance events, the artist invites participants to weave, using laser cut versions of a traditional back strap loom. By bringing together groups to weave collectively, Frost explores the ways weaving can act as a metaphor for communities working together.  In the Media Studies department Frost's research focuses on pop-culture, memes, LGBTQIA+ culture, and public scholarship in libraries. They are also the co-founder of the Experimental Weaving Residency and Associate Director of the Unstable Design Lab in the Roser Atlas Institute.

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  • Contemporary craft, fiber and material studies, performance art, community building, relational aesthetics, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, pubic art

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  • CMCI 1020 - Concepts and Creativity 2: Media, Communication, Information
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021
    Engages key principles and practices in the fields of media, communication and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. Second course in two semester sequence required for all first-year CMCI students. Requires a grade of C- or better to count toward degree.
  • CMCI 2030 - Thinking Across Disciplines in Media, Communication and Information
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Engages key principles and practices in the fields of media, communication and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. Accelerated, one-semester version of the introductory CMCI course for transfer students to CMCI. Requires a grade of C- or better to count toward degree.
  • CMDP 3310 - Performance Media Cultures
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
    Reflect on the cultural construction of old and new performance media through the lens of emerging practices and contemporary discourse. From ancient theatre to cinema, interactive television to YouTube, and multi-media dance performances to computer games, this course explores how media shape, and are shaped by, various historical and contemporary audiences and contexts.
  • CMDP 4931 - Internship
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020
  • MDST 1002 - Introduction to Social Media
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Introduces students to network structures and principles, the technology and infrastructures that allow them to flourish, and the cultures that grow up through and around them. Explores how social media enables community, how it assembles and empowers agents of change and how design informs individual and group behavior.
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