Jennifer Heuson

Jen Heuson is a scholar, filmmaker and sound ethnographer. Her films have screened internationally at venues as diverse as FLEX Fest, Big Muddy, Black Maria and the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, and she has produced sound ethnographies of the Peruvian Amazon, New York City and South Dakota’s Black Hills. Jen earned her PhD with distinction from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Funded by the Wenner-Gren and Reed Foundations, her research explores how heritage and tourist experiences are made and managed through sound. Jen is currently working on a film about aural sovereignty and a science-fiction novel exploring stone tape theory in South Dakota. She teaches media ethics at The New School and critical media analysis at New York University.

no. 3, Roundtables, vol. 1July 1, 2016<January 17, 2017

Small-Gauge Attunements for Critical Knowledge Making

Jen Heuson continues our ongoing roundtable by raising the question of "attunement": do small-gauge methods afford critical faculties to the scholar that would be unavailable otherwise?

no. 3, Roundtables, vol. 1June 17, 2016<January 17, 2017

Developing a Small-Gauge Ethos for Scholarship and Art

Jennifer Heuson identifies a "small-gauge ethos" in her research and her artwork in this entry to our ongoing roundtable discussion on small-gauge scholarship.