Meta Vaughan’s multimodal project selected for SVA Film and Media Festival

Congratulations to Meta Vaughan (MA 2024) whose multimodal thesis project “Traversing the Therapeutic Cusp” was an official selection of the 2024 Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film and Media Festival in Tampa. FL.

“The current population of adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) is the first to survive into adulthood and the last to grow up believing we wouldn’t. My interactive media project names this unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable era in the timeline of CF: The Therapeutic Cusp. Using a multimodal ethnographic and autoethnographic approach, I developed this concept through interviews, filming, text conversations, and relationships built with the CF community. My media works comprise four multimodal projects: remote portraits, a short documentary video, ‘co-presence’ videos, and video interviews. These are presented on my website Traversing the Therapeutic Cusp. Together, they create a representation of life on the therapeutic cusp, exploring the experiences of people with CF—an invisible illness with equally invisible and perpetually evolving timelines.”