Vanessa Bertozzi co-authored
this project while a graduate student at MIT's Comparative Media Studies program.
Her thesis work Unschooling
Media:
Participatory Practices among Progressive Homeschoolers focuses on homeschooling
families' uses of digital technology and communications. Bertozzi has written
on the physical world of re-enacting fan cultures and various pop culture
practices and aesthetics. She was recently chosen to be a member of MIT's
Arts Scholar program. She won the Sun Fellowship to work on History Unwired,
a mobile media walking tour in Venice, Italy, for which she shot and edited
three short experimental documentaries. She is also working on a documentary
called Vintage Dancers about a family of reenactors, and she is co-producing
Secondhand
(Pepe), a documentary about the history of the used clothing industry.
Additionally, Bertozzi worked as a researcher for Project New Media Literacy
initiative funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Bertozzi comes from a diverse
image-making background. She worked as a photographer for Let's Go travel
guidebooks and assistant audio engineer. After graduating in 2001 from Harvard—where
she studied filmmaking and the history of the built American landscape—Bertozzi
worked in New York City in the documentary field. She was associate producer/editor
for the Sonic Memorial
Project, an innovative on-line interactive documentary with NPR radio
broadcast component. The Sonic Memorial Project was the first web documentary
to win a Peabody Award.
Now living in Brooklyn, she works for
Etsy.com, an online community marketplace for artists and craftspeople
creating and selling all things handmade.
