Video Ethnography Lab
"Endure to be seen by those who can see." - Paul Ledford, on the opening of the VE
Lab
On 20 October 2011 the Video Ethnography Laboratory was officially established in
Stubbs Hall as a resource for graduate teaching and video ethnographic research. The
fully-equipped facility contains several iMac computers and a full complement of stabilizers,
lights, microphones, and mixers. A state of the art tape backup facility (Cache-A)
is shared by the Louisiana State Museum for digital archiving. The goal of the VE
Lab is to provide a new variety of qualitative research training for interested graduate
students.
The VE Lab at LSU organizes the
Ethnografilm Festival each April in Paris, France.
The Lab also collaborates on a journal of ethnographic film (Editor in Chief, Dr.
Gregory Scott, DePaul University). Please visit the web site of the
Journal of Video Ethnography.
In addition, the laboratory provides technical assistance and filming for the National
Library of Scotland, to create the first-of-its-kind archive of English-language performance
art in the world, the
Fringe Performance Archive.
For a general introduction to video ethnography, please see our new book: Video Ethnography in Practice.
Please send an email to Professor
Wes Shrum if you are interested in video ethnography as a component of your graduate training.