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Kernan, Keely

Assistant Teaching Professor

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Research

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  • Keely Kernan is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist whose work explores environmental issues, globalization, identity, community, and the natural resources that sustain our daily lives. Using a methodology that combines investigative research, immersive fieldwork and visual storytelling, her work examines the complex relationship between communities, landscapes, and the forces that shape them.

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  • Documentary, Critical Pedagogy

Teaching

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  • CMDP 2500 - Media Practices I
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
    Working in design groups, students will explore the expressive potential of media through the production of short projects, discussions, readings, formal analysis, and critique. Provide a basic introduction to media practices as an extension of "visual thinking" and through approaches to storytelling, and hybrid media forms.
  • CMDP 2510 - Critical Media Practices Workshop I
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Training in narrow topics of media practices.
  • CMDP 3400 - Media Aesthetics
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2024
    Builds students' ability to watch, reflect on, and write about media images. The course will be grounded in the analysis of media practices with special focus on media style and storytelling techniques. Explores media aesthetics from formal, cultural, and theoretical perspectives. Formerly CMDP 2400.
  • CMDP 3600 - Media Practices II
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Focus on developing an understanding of the principles, forms and aesthetics of media production. Working in design groups on small-scale media preproduction and production exercises, screenings and critiques, students learn creative solutions to problems in realizing expressive media projects. Formerly CMDP 2600.
  • CMDP 3700 - Digital Photographic Practices
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Explores the creative possibilities of photography; students work on projects that combine concepts and techniques with contemporary practice and current modalities of exhibition and social distribution. Emphasis is placed on the student's personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development in relation to current technologies. Formerly CMDP 3500.
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