MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies

Studying Media and Making Media

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Moments of Innovation

Moments of Innovation

CMS’s Open Documentary Lab has teamed up with IDFA DocLab to create Moments of Innovation, an interactive exhibit and online research project exploring the long history of inventive documentary practices.
Albert Lee of the L.A. Times just named it Best of the Week…

What I find most interesting about the project is how photography is being propelled forward by technology. The project shows viewers one of the first ‘game changers’ in photography, the $1 Kodak Brownie Camera that came out in 1900 and allowed the coining of the term ‘snapshot.’

About Andrew Whitacre

Andrew directs the communications efforts for CMS/W and its research groups. A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University, with a minor in humanities, as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College.

His work includes drawing up and executing strategic communications plans, with projects including website design, social media management and training, press outreach, product launches, fundraising campaign support, and event promotions.