Brenda ann kenneally bio
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Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother, multi platform documentary maker, Guggenheim Fellow, pris Prize Nominee, and formerly incarcerated ungdom. Over the past thirty years Kenneally’s long struktur, immersive projects have at once, produced visceral portraits of the personal experiences of disadvantaged children in America, and a ground up historic record of contemporary social and political values in The United States. Kenneally’s professional bio states ” I take pictures to remember what I’ve learned while inom was busy taking pictures”. It was Kenneally’s need to share what she had learned from both her own childhood in Upstate New York and the twelve years that she spent recording the history of an extended family of young people as they came of age in post industrial Troy, New York, that lead her to struktur A Little Creative Class, Inc. Kenneally had been born thirty years earlier and one town over from the young people that she has chronicled in her bo
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Branda Miller is an internationally recognized media artist and educator, dedicated to explore new visions, use media for social change and support independent voices. With three decades of experience in youth media, community media, media arts and education, she seeks to expand documentary form through actively engagement and collaboration, and use art for creative community development.
A tenured Professor of Media Arts in the Integrated Electronic Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1991-2015), she played a key role in the shaping and development of the MFA interdisciplinary arts program and the BS Electronic Media and Performing Arts program at Rensselaer. Professor Miller’s course “Art, Technology and Community” connects RPI students to the community.
Professor Miller is a co-founder and Arts and Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. She was Project Coordinator for many projects, including “Green Screen Troy” (REDC/NYSCA 20
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On engaging with the world through your work
When did you first pick up a camera?
I first picked up a camera when I was 30. 29, almost 30. I had a long life of doing other things, probably trying to figure stuff out or fit in or all those things. Once I realized that I had been right from the beginning, when I was 12, as the Bible calls the “age of reason,” the things that I thought were all bullshit [became clear].
I thought I wanted to be a journalist. There was nothing in my family or anything that would even give me an inkling of the idea of figuring out the reason why you’re here. I thought maybe it would be something like Barbara Walters. That was someone I had seen on television, and something that looked like you were engaging with the world in an analytical way, but also that really made you go deep with other people that you felt like you couldn’t meet. You could get close to people, and I liked that.
I couldn’t do anything else and go on like that. I read this book,