Columbia Presents at 2009 University Film & Video Association Conference
Doreen Bartoni (Dean, School of Media Arts), Bruce Sheridan (Chair, Department of Film & Video), and Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang Architects) presented on Columbia's leadership in media education at the 2009 University Film and Video Association Conference in New Orleans in August. In The Architecture of Innovation, Bartoni, Sheridan, and MPC architect Gang focused on how architects and educators can benefit from an understanding of each other’s aims and needs. Gang described how film aesthetics informed her approach to designing a unique building that is both an innovative learning environment and a fully professional film, television, and multimedia production space. Bartoni explained how various media arts disciplines can work together in an appropriately designed facility, and Sheridan covered the ways the MPC is helping his department to rethink film education from the ground up.
Groundbreaking
From the Columbia School of Oratory’s first digs in 1890 at 24 East Adams Street to its current campus comprising 17 academic buildings and five residence halls, the college has been masterful in its reuse and recycling of existing structures. It was a partner, with other universities, in the construction of a “superdorm” at the corner of State Street and Harrison. But it had never constructed a building of its own ... until now.
Media Production Center gets South Loop home in 2009
The city of Chicago approved the purchase of land at 16th and State street on September 11, 2008, for Columbia to begin building its proposed Media Production Center. The college has been working on obtaining the property for about two years, Doreen Bartoni, dean of the School of Media Arts, said.