Old North Remembered | Old North Forgotten from Liz Sabatiuk on Vimeo. Georgetown University has an evolving narrative about its past, present, and future, but the reality of the university’s place in Washington, the United States, and the world is much more complex. This project by CCT student Liz Sabatiuk sought to layer and juxtapose artifacts…
Category: Remix Practices
Remix: Old North’s Index
CCT student Liz Sabatiuk modeled this “index” on the Harper’s Index in Harper’s Magazine. The experiment was part of her final remix project, in which she explored what’s remembered and what’s forgotten in Georgetown’s history. Each Harper’s Index curates 40 facts expressed through numbers, rates, ratios, percentages, years, factors, and other quantities. Each point is carefully chosen and strategically…
Remix: Updating The Book
This remix project by CCT student Jiaxi Xing acts as an update to the 1983 Old North Book, depicting and describing a more recent renovation that occurred in 2013. Jiaxi’s research for the project incorporated information from a range of sources, including architectural plans, news reports, and archival background on the paintings in Old North. This…
Remix: ReMarking The Book
This remix project by CCT student Ken Wake sought to “ReMark” Georgetown’s history using The Old North Book as “the scaffolding for the play.” The project uses many of the same words of the original book, altering only “the cultural marking associated with given terms, names, etc.,” with the purpose of “moving the story towards…
Remix: Haiku Leave Campus
Nathan Danskey, a student in the CCT course Remix Practices, used one haiku from each student in ENGL 280 to create this video remix. The video juxtaposes the haiku with footage of the DC Metro and a Black Lives Matter march in DC. Featuring haiku by: Evan Couture, Sarah Fisher, Taylor Harding, Joanna Hawkins, Caitlin Karna, Gina Kim, Jee Young Kim, Ainsley Trahan, Christina…
Remix: Soundtrack to Betsy Ross
This video remix by CCT student Liz Sabatiuk combines footage from the short film by Media Production students Fatima Al-Dosari and Dur Kattan with a soundtrack by Sam Redd inspired by Mosler’s painting The Birth of the Flag. Betsy Ross from Liz Sabatiuk on Vimeo.
Remix: Soundtrack to Washington Crossing the Delaware
The painting: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Henry Mosler The soundtrack: Sam Redd, MA student in Georgetown University’s CCT Program “I began to think about the 6-7 hour crossing as the men in the painting (and not in the painting) would have experienced it. These men were cold and scared; some of them were likely…