Media Literacy: Overseas Conversation Series (1)
June 9-11, 2004
(click here for complete program) Opening event: Wednesday, June 9, 8:30 PM
"Consider that for the first time
in human history a child is born into a home which television is
on an average
of about seven hours a day. And for the first time in human history
most of the stories are told not by the parent, not by the school,
not by the church, not by the tribes or community, and in many places
not even by the native country, but by a relatively small group of
conglomerates who have something to sell" George
Gerbner
Featured works from:
Do It Your Damn Self Youth
Media Festival
Educational Video Center
Scenarios USA
Art-Start
Duende Pictures
The Media Spot
NYC Public Schools
Barcelona
Forum 2004
OETI’s UNICEF International prizes
Screenings (each day)
at 10 AM, 1 PM and 3 PM
Three panels analyzing and addressing
the need and development of
Media Literacy from an international perspective. Panelist include:
Robin Andersen, Felix Angulo, Ivana Espinet, Agustin Garcia Matilla,
Renee Hobbs, Robert Kubey, Carrie McLaren, Duane Neil,
Carlos Pareja, Eva Pujadas, and Chyng Feng Sun.
Panels (each day)
at 6 PM
The Chelsea Art Museum in collaboration with Barcelona's European
Observatory of Children's Television (OETI) will present a series
of screenings of youth-produced media as well as three panels addressing
the need for a closer look and analysis of the ways children and
teenagers use mass-media (in particular television) and what effect
it has in their emotional and intellectual development. As a point
of departure lets consider that most American children spent an
average of 6 hours a day watching a screen (TV, but also the www),
these children are in effect spending more time consuming mass-media
than attending school. Who is ultimately educating them? Who is
giving them their values?
Organized
by
The European Observatory of Children’s Television (OETI) (www.oeti.org)
in association with
The Chelsea Art Museum
and the support of
Aldeas Infantiles SOS, Fundación Rafael del Pino (Madrid,
Spain)
in collaboration with Duende Pictures and
TV3/Catalonia, Barcelona Forum 2004 (www.barcelona2004.org),
Panasonic/Generalitat de Catalunya Project,
Projects B.E.I.M-All The Way-P.S. 132/Department of Education of
New York City
Project Directors: Jordi Torrent and Valentí Gómez
Olivé 
 O.E.T.I.
For additional information please contact the Chelsea Art Museum's
project director for the conference: Jordi Torrent at jordi@duendepictures.com |
