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Video Art: Experimentation with Visual Poetry

Girls, Toys, and Media: Video Pieces

April 13, 2011

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 some of the students from Marlborough School participated in the Girls, Toys, and Media conference held at Mattel Inc. in El Segundo, California. For the conference, the students and teachers worked together to make these video pieces documenting their projects. Amy: the Bionic Man Anjoun: Transformation Ariela: Mirror Haley: Inside [...]

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    • Do toys influence gender roles or vise versa? (5)
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