MIT Department of Anthropology

Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project announced as SVA Film & Media Festival 2023 Winner in Best Interactive Media

MIT Anthropology

Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project announced as SVA Film & Media Festival 2023 Winner in Best Interactive Media

Christine Walley, Chris Boebel, Jeff Soyk, and the Southeast Chicago Historical Museum for their Storytelling Website

SVA Film Media Festival

November 15, 2023

Congratulations to Professor Christine J. Walley and Christopher Boebel! their Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project (SECASP) won the prize for  2023 Best Interactive Media from Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival (SVAFMF) images from the archive include pages from a journal, photos of people striking, christian imagery, a worker id, a pair of boots

Winner: Best Interactive Media - Recognizes media work—including VR installations, iDocs, websites, games, podcasts—that best embodies the creative and collaborative spirit of multimodal anthropologies.

The Southeast Chicago Historical Museum is located in a single room in a park fieldhouse on the shore of Lake Michigan. It was founded in the early 1980s by community volunteers. The region had once been part of one of the largest industrial corridors in the world. But, as the local steel mills began to close, residents felt their history slipping away. They donated an astonishing array of artifacts to the Museum. These materials offer a unique window onto everyday life in an industrial community from the vantage point of residents themselves.

See the award-winning website at https://www.sechicagohistory.org/

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