Doctoral work embraces new media
It takes countless hours to pull together a traditional doctoral thesis, a cogent case laid out on the page based on reasoned argument primed with examples. But the printed word, Harvard scholars know, is only one way to demonstrate what you’ve learned about the world. Art installations, multichannel soundscapes, video, and films can also say much about the human condition, and now many of those forms of cultural expression are on view at the ArtLab Annex at 485 Broadway in Cambridge as well as at the Harvard Art Museums Lightbox Gallery through May 4. The works, part of the first-of-its-kind exhibition “Into Place,” represent the capstone projects of recent graduates or current Harvard Ph.D. students pursuing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice (CMP), a 10-year-old program that expands the way students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences engage with their scholarship. “The media project is a complement, a kind of...