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Faculty & Staff Support

Projects & Partnerships

Black at Barnard

Behind the scenes of a shoot for an upcoming documentary — In preparation for 100 years of Black Scholarship at Barnard, Nia Ashley’16 reached out to the Media Center team to provide support on collecting the stories of Barnrard’s black alumni. During summer 2023 our production studio served as the location for multiple interviews. On that set, Mika Lungulov-Klotz operated as B Cam, Lucy Shauman and Claudia Gohn operated as gaffers and Deja Cobb was the sound operator, assisted by Syeda Anjum and Victoria Cadostin.

Neuroscience Textbook Chapter

A still from a Neuroscience video textbook chapter — In 2023, the Media Center team helped the Barnard Vision Lab to produce a video textbook chapter about neuroimaging technique, fMRI. Claudia Gohn filmed Vassiki Chauhan and Jalisha Jenifer in our production studio. She also filmed the data acquisition process at the Zuckerman Institute, with the assistance of Jess Saldaña. Deja Cobb edited and created graphics and animations for the final video.

Undesign the Redline at Barnard Tour

Undesign the redline screenshot — A 15 minute walkthrough of the Undesign the Redline @ Barnard, with the exhibit's principal designer, April DeSimone. Filmed by Rachel James and edited with title animation by Deja Cobb. Watch the tour here.

Erika Kitzmiller, The Roots of Educational Inequality Book Trailer

BookTrailer_1 — In Spring’22 Melanie Hibbert directed the on set shoot with Erika Kitzmiller, to promote her book The Roots of Educational Inequality. Deja Cobb edited and created graphics for the final video.

REACT APP

Screenshot of REACT app — In Fall 2019 Karl-Mary Akre and Deja Cobb worked with Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Director of the Organic Chemistry Labs, Meena Rao to produce several videos on proper usage of equipment in the Barnard chemistry labs. Together, Deja and Karl-Mary filmed the on site videos and Deja created animations and edited the final videos.

NEWDAY Dance Film

Still from NEWDAY — During Spring’21 when some students were still remote, Deja Cobb worked with the dance department to edit a dance short film, NEWDAY. Deja intertwined footage from in person and remote students into one video that magnified the importance of community during hardships.

Ayebomi vs. Regina

ayebomi_regina_0 — This piece by Abosede A. George (Associate Professor of History) reworks the archives of a court case from the late 1800s in Lagos, Nigeria for an audio performance. The Lagos Photo Festival commissioned the piece. Rachel James and Karl-Mary Akre assisted Professor George in recording testimonies in the Media Center’s brand new audio booth. A trial was re-created in a Barnard hall classroom and recorded with IMATS equipment. Rachel worked with Professor George to compile soundscapes and edit the recordings into five separate audio files, which played at different locations around Lagos as part of the festival.

360 Video: Dance Magic Dance

Dance Magic Dance — We partnered with the Barnard Dance Department to explore new angles from which performances could be recorded—every angle, to be exact. IMATS filmed several dance classes from various genres using a Ricoh Theta 360 camera, then stitched and edited the footage together. The result could be viewed through a VR-headset as an immersive dance experience. A more in-depth look at IMATS' ongoing partnership with the Barnard Dance Department can be found in the book chapter "Dance Magic Dance: A Case Study of AR/360 Video and the Performing Arts." This was co-written by Melanie Hibbert, director of IMATS, former Barnard staff members Alexis Seeley and Abby Lee, and Barnard Dance professor Gabri Christa. This chapter appears in the book Library Go: Augmented Reality in Libraries, published in 2018 by Rowman & Littflefield.