Digital Moving Image Salon@Spelman

10:00 a.m. | "Cross Cultural Communication in Technology, News Media & Film The panel, "Cross Cultural Communication in Technology, News Media & Film" will address the various opportunities (and disadvantages) that one can count on when communicating cross culturally via the Web. The event takes place at Cosby Academic Center Auditorium. Panelists include: Dancia Kimbol Principal at beeverywhere.tv Dr. Ayoka Chenzira Founding Director, Digital Moving Image Salon Octavia Nassir Founder of Bridges Media Consulting Dr. Kendra King Associate Professor of Politics at Oglethorpe University Sponsored by: Digital Atlanta | The Digital Moving Image Salon at Spelman Collage | Global Cultural Science Brands

DMIS Director: Dr. Ayoka Chenzira | About Us DMIS

The Digital Moving Image Salon, under the leadership of Professor Ayoka Chenzira, has received a $60,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a collaborative faculty development program with Bennett College to strengthen the Women's Studies program at both campuses.

The grant will be used to introduce new digital media in the form of video games, CD-ROMs, DVDs, websites, blogs, electronic kiosks and podcasting, as critical tools for teaching, facilitating and learning through two oral narrative and new media projects.

The "Katrina Project," for example, consists of a collection of oral narratives developed as community quilts that archive stories of heroism, sacrifice and life-altering experiences of Hurricane Katrina victims and survivors. Using digital media, the narratives will be archived and turned into interactive displays for presentation in 2008 at both Spelman and Bennett College.

The second project, known as "Kinship Care," focuses on the growing number of African-American women in Atlanta's West End community who care for their grandchildren and the impact it has had on their lives. A Web site will also provide additional information about the project.

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"Storytelling stands at the center of all cultures. Through stories, we articulate our history, dreams, fears and expectations, as well as our sense of beauty, morality and justice. Whether oral or digital, stories move the work and require us to continually reevaluate who we are and where we are going."
— Dr. Ayoka Chenzira