Allied Media Projects

Media strategies for a more just and creative world
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Photo by Carleton Gholz
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Photo by AJ Manoulian

Allied Media Conference

  1. The Allied Media Conference offers hands-on trainings and strategy sessions in a wide-range of media practices.

  2. Through the AMC, held every summer in Detroit, we unite the worlds of media, art, technology, education and social justice. Participants build knowledge and relationships that continue to grow throughout the year.

  3. The 14th annual Allied Media Conference is June 28 - July 1, 2012 in Detroit. Register today.

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About AMP

  1. AMP shares and develops models for transforming our selves and our communities through creative communications.

  2. Creating our own media is a process of speaking and listening that allows us to imagine other realities and then organize to make them real. Read the AMP mission

  3. The Allied Media Projects network emerges out of thirteen years of organic relationship-building across issues, identities, organizing practices and creative mediums. Read the AMP network principles

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Detroit Future

  1. AMP’s local programs innovate practices in education, economic development and community organizing. We are a founding member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.

  2. Detroit Future Media teaches core digital media competencies, and their application in community organizing, education, and entrepreneurship.

  3. Through Detroit Future Schools we integrate digital media arts in the classroom.

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Photo by AJ Manoulian
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Online Resources

  1. We are building web technologies that support the collaboration and creativity of our network.

  2. AMPTalk is a message board system for the network.

  3. Allied365 is a catalog of the services, curricula, and other offerings of the AMP network.

Contact

  1. Contact us, we'd love to hear from you.

AMP News: coordinators

Summary of the AMC2012 Coordinators Gathering
Allied Media Conference

Over the weekend of January 13-15, more than 30 AMC content coordinators from all over the U.S. and Canada joined AMP staff in our Detroit headquarters to kick off planning of the 21 Tracks, Practice Spaces, and Network Gatherings for the 14th annual Allied Media Conference.

We had a weekend full of activities and exercises to collaboratively strengthen the vision and language of each AMC content area, share critical information about conference structure, and build plans to ensure the fluidity and impact of each session.