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SEL is a laboratory that explores the aesthetics and ontology of the world through analog and digital media, installation, and performance. It produces films, videos, photographs, and sound works that have been exhibited and screened in various venues and festivals worldwide.
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) Castaing-Taylor is...
- Harvard Department of Anthropology
Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) Research and...
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor
The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary center for the making of anthropologically informed works of media that combine aesthetics and ethnography. Production courses associated with the SEL are offered through Anthropology, Visual and Environmental Studies, and the Graduate School of Design. [1]
Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) Research and Teaching Interests. Sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology, post-human and multi-species anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West.
aesthetic-sensual form of sensory ethnography, best repre- media practices that explore the bodily praxis and affective fab sented by the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, and then ric of human existence.
An introduction to “sensory ethnography,” a media practice that seeks to rejuvenate and innovate in visual anthropology, cinema, and art. Students will learn to record and edit video and audio to produce original media works about embodied experience, culture, ecology, political-economy, and history.
