911 Media Workshop to Check Out

"Slaying the Gorgon" @ 911 Media Arts

Thurs, March 27 6:30-9:30pm
instructor - Joe McHugh & Panelists
student cost - $ 7 with ID

"Slaying the Gorgon" is an hour-long multi-media presentation about the changing nature of storytelling in our culture with the emergence of audio and image technologies. Since earliest times, people have used stories to entertain, inform, and pass on cultural values. They have also used stories to persuade. "Slaying the Gorgon" looks at how we tell stories in the modern world given the dynamic and transforming influence of new technologies. McHugh explains within an historical and cultural context why images and sound are increasingly supplanting the authority of the printed word, and remaking the long-term economic and political landscape. McHugh examines in depth the relationship between the human need for story and the media outlets that currently provide those stories. He poses the idea that those who create and distribute audio and image media have in some ways become a "priest class", defining which stories are told in our culture and creating a sense of ritual around those stories that lends them authority.

Joe McHugh is a local storyteller, philosopher, audiographer, and writer. Following his multi media presentation -Slaying the Gorgon- there will be a panel discussion. Joe will act as moderator in a discussion with the audience and panel. He hopes to have an interesting and lively conversation with all. The panelists include:
Ward Serrill
Sue Corcoran
Deb Narine

For more information, visit: http://www.911media.org/workshops/storytelling.pl