Harvard fellowship brings practicing artists to campus
Can hashtag movements or Twitter bot text be considered poetry? How can we conduct and present research through art? What is immersive storytelling? The inaugural group of Harvard College Fellows in Media Practice are tackling these questions and more in their research, teaching, and art on campus. Poet Margaret Rhee, artist and writer Sohin Hwang, and Young Joo Lee, a visual and performance artist, are exploring the interplay of technology and art in the arts and humanities, and encouraging Harvard students to do the same. As part of their fellowship requirements, all three artists developed new courses that emphasize art practice as a way to engage with academic concepts taught within their host departments on campus. Rhee, an assistant professor of media study at SUNY Buffalo, is working out of the Department of English. Lee is working with concentrators in Theater, Dance & Media, and Hwang is teaching and practicing in the Department of Visual...