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Student: Steel Wagstaff
Course: English 727/927, Jon McKenzie & Cyrena Pondrom
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: Visually enriched essays on silence, noise, music, poetics, and John Cage.
This and other graphic essays will be on display in the exhibit area nightly from 6 - 10 pm.

Among Elders Of An Ancient Time Made Anew

Student: Peter Todorov
Course: American Indian Studies 450: The Native Creative Process, Roberta Hill
Medium: Video
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Description:A story interwoven through historical, mythical, and personal voices exploring the magical land of Bulgaria, the transcendental, and the opulent wisdom of a forefather.

AntiModernist

Student: Dmitri Sandbeck
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: A large-format color printed visual essay describing the aspects of the late 19th/early 20th century American political and social milieu which led to the antimodernist reaction to modernity.

An Autobiographical Examination of Rock n' Roll as Ideology

Student: Greg Arenz
Course: N/A
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: The goal of this project is to illustrate Althusser’s idea of how the individual is interpolated into various ideologies of the capitalist state through the examination of the rock n roll musician as an ideology.

Aviary

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Student: Nic Bitting
Course: Art 329, Stephen Hilyard
Medium: Digital imagery

Description: Aviary is a computer-generated image of an imagined treehouse. It was completed using Rhino digital modeling tools and the Flamingo render engine. The output of the creative process was a digital print matted and framed.

Becoming an Italianist - Diventando un'italianista

Student: Christina Petraglia
Course: English 553: Modern Critical Theories
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: For this class project, I chose a seminal aspect of my life to explore, my own divided identity as an Italian-American.

The Birth of the Inner Human: Emotion

Student: Kyle Thomas Ulatowski
Course: Inspired by English 550
Medium: Video
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Description: This clip is the second of four from a short film I am in the process of creating, called "The Birth of the Inner Human."

The Birth of the Inner Human: Inspiration

Student: Kyle Thomas Ulatowski
Course: Inspired by English 550
Medium: Video
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Description: This clip is the beginning of a short film I am in the process of creating, called "The Birth of the Inner Human."

Canines in the Classroom Community

Student: Lisa V. Hoon
Course: Curriculum & Instruction 506: Strategies for Inclusive Schooling, Bernadette Baker
Medium: Digital imagery - See this Project!

Description: This digital story presents a teaching/learning narrative which problematizes fixed concepts around identity by engaging and interrupting subjectivites and difference from a postmodern Buddhist perspective.

Conversations with a Thin Girl: Considering this Large [Female] Body

Student: Kimberly Bruss
Course: English 481, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: I created this project as a response to an assignment Professor Jon McKenzie gave while I was in his English 481 class.

A dance of wheel on wheel: Mechanical Rotation in Hart Crane's The Bridge

Student: Katie Lanning
Course: English 721 Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic essay/art objects
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Description: My original paper, written for a modern poetry class, concentrates on the changing relationship between nature and technology in Crane’s poem.

Digital Conference Simulation: Medieval Book Curses and Retributive Justice

Student: Catherine DeRose
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Podcast
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Description: My project is a Pecha Kucha, which is a 6 minute and 40 second digital presentation.

Digital Friends

Student: Brittany Kiele
Course: N/A
Medium: Digital Imagery
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Statement: Digital Friends is a digital scan of two of my best friends. My goal for this piece was to bring to mind the ideas of technology in the modern world and how it is influencing social connections.

Dimension Dilemma

Student: Allison Biesboer
Course: Art 428
Medium: Flash
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Description: This is a stand-alone art piece created with Adobe Flash. The work was intended to represent the tension between using 2D and 3D forms of digital creation. Although it features vector drawings created to mimic 3D shapes, it is still created in a 2D postscript application.

Diversity Within

Student: Brittany Glaza
Course: INTER-HE 501
Medium: Digital Story
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Description: This was a project we did as a class that required us to make a digital story explaining our views on diversity and how they have changed since entering the university.

Dog Tired

Student: Alexandra Cox
Course: Communication Arts 690
Medium: Video
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Description: 2 Minute 2D Computer Animation using Flash CS3: An old man is walking his hyper dog when suddenly he runs into and falls in love with an elderly woman.

Domestic Serenade

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Student: Joy Larson
Course: Art Independent Study
Medium: Video

Description: Everyday household objects and the sounds they make arranged into a music video.

Ecuador: Travel Through Time

Student: Grace Fondow
Course:English 173 Race, Place, and Story: American Literature, Roberta Hill
Medium: Video
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Description: English 173 is an "introduction to literature that reflects the writing and experience of minoriity and etthnic groups."

Essays into Noise, Silence and John Cage

Student: Steel Wagstaff
Course: English 727/927, Jon McKenzie & Cyrena Pondrom
Medium: Video; Digital imagery
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Description: A short film produced with iMovie about Noise, Silence, and John Cage's 4'33"

Fabulous Fashion

Student: Allison Biesboer
Course: Art 518: Artist’s Video, Rosemary Bodolay
Medium: Video
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Description: Set to the Lovemakers’ song “Fashion,” this music video serves to emulate and ridicule the absurdity of couture.

Flipbook lessons in the right hands

Student: Daniel Spitzberg
Course:
Medium: Animation
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Description: Flipbooks originated over a century ago as the original moving picture, a (patented) toy common among elite photographers and filmmakers.

The Food Supply Chain

Student: Rahul Kamath
Course: None
Medium: Digital Imagery
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Description: A humorous and potentially troubling look at the food supply chain.

Gabriel Herrera: A Graphic Essay

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Student: Gabriel Herrera
Course: English 553: Modern Critical Theories
Medium: Graphic Essay

Description: My goal in this project was to present myself as a subject for analysis using theory discussed in class.

Ghosthumanism

Student: Mary Feng Chen
Course: English 382
Medium: Video
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Description: A project in response to a prompt to create an original posthumanist manifesto.

The Giving Tree

Student: Lauren Morrison
Course: Art 428 - Computer Imaging Techniques
Medium: Video & Digital Imagery
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Description: This piece is a flash animation, approximately 2 minutes long. I created it in the fall of 2009.

Harriet and Leone

Student: Marian Halls and Maya Aghasi, and alumna Kerstin Schaars
Course: Comparative Literature 202
Medium: Website - See this Project!

Description: Harriet and Leone, founded by graduate students in the Comparative Literature Department, provides an online forum for exchanging creative work related to questions raised in the humanities.

Igod

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Student: Austin Duerst, alumni Michael Anderson, Lindsay Taylor, Michael Tweed-Kent and Greg Hammond
Course: English 553, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Video, Digital imagery

Description: In the year 2086, the Apple Corporation announces The Eden Project, the pinnacle of digital entertainment.

India

Student: Dylan Wilbur
Course: N/A
Medium: Video, Digital imagery
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Description: A video that attempts to capture the heart and energy that is a journey into India.

Jesus Sells

Student: Zena Elizabeth Hirsch
Course: Communication Arts 465, Bill Brown
Medium: Video
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Description: "Jesus Sells" is a three-part video/audio mashup that combines footage from the 1977 film "Jesus of Nazareth" with audio from several 1950s television commercials. The resulting product has been described as both irreverent and hilarious.

Lady in Red: The Performance and Liberation of Desire in Dana Rotberg’s Angel of Fire

Student: Katie Schaag
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Digital imagery, Graphic Essay
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Description: For this project I remade my essay “Lady in Red: The Performance and Liberation of Desire in Dana Rotberg’s Angel of Fire” into a graphic book.

Manga & Anime

Student: Giovanni Bottero & Kelly Rux
Course: East Asian 376/Lit Trans 231 & East Asian 378/Lit Trans 232
Medium: Video
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Description: The trailer presents the main themes of the Manga and Anime courses through the manga and anime media.

Mechanical Rotation in Hart Crane’s The Bridge

Student: Katie Lanning
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Video
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Description: This digital video, in pecha kucha format, is a re-imagining of my previous project, "A Dance of Wheel on Wheel."

My Daily Walk

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Student: Gregory Reeb
Course: English 553, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic Essay

Description: My project attempts to tie together a deeper intellectual history with the repetition of my daily walk to school.

The Nature of Pattern

Student: Lisa A. Frank
Course: Art 999 & Design Studies 999, Tom Jones and Jenny Angus
Medium: Digital imagery
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Description: “The Pattern that Connects”
A theorist of evolution, Gregory Bateson, writes about pattern: “What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me?

Notes on Leadership

Student: Alexandra Bream
Course: English 553
Medium: Graphic Essay
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This and other graphic essays will be on display in the exhibit area nightly from 6 - 10 pm.

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes

Student: Allison Dahlgren
Course: English 441: Marriage of Heaven and Hell: English Poetry from Milton to Blake
Medium: Audio - Hear this Project!

Description: My digital project is a musical interpretation of Thomas Gray’s eighteenth century poem, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes.”

A photographic interpretation of an 18th century poem

Student: Jenny Sheets
Course: English 441: Marriage of Heaven and Hell: English Poetry from Milton to Blake
Medium: Other
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Description: A photographic interpretation of an 18th century poem: "The Gentleman's Study, In Answer to 'The Lady's Dressing Room'" by Miss W--(1732)

A Poetical Economy: Social Credit in William Carlos Willams’ Paterson (An Idea Kit)

Student: Rebecca Steffy
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: My goal in constructing this project was to transform a seminar paper, written previously for a graduate English class, into a graphic essay.

Rail Jam

Student: Logan Cascia
Course: Communication Arts 355, Introduction to Media Production
Medium: Video
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Description: More than 30 local skiers and snowboarders competed for fun and prizes on 20 tons of man-made snow during the Hoofer Ski and Snowboard Club's first Hoofer Rail Jam at the Memorial Union Terrace.

Retributive Justice: The Language of Book Curses in Medieval Monastic and Legal Manuscripts

Student: Catherine DeRose
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: I recreated the look and feel of a medieval manuscript in order to evoke the historical context of the book curses that my essay analyzes.

Scenes of Domesticity: Material Culture and Book Illustrations Contained Within the Cairns Collection of Twentieth Century American Women Writers

Student: Katie Gleischman
Course: Independent Study LIS 999, Robin Rider
Medium: Slide Show
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Description: What follows are examples of illustrated domestic novels authored by American women in the nineteenth century.

Sensory Overload

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Student: Joy Larson
Course: Com Arts 355
Medium: Video

Description: A collage of beautiful everyday things from around Madison set to pieces of music that correlate with the imagery.

Southern Space Emergent Ethos: a reconstitution in visual rhetorics

Student: Michael Dimmick
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: In this piece I have taken a longer text based paper and transformed it in mind of the multimodal rhetorical practices under discussion in the piece.

Sticks and Slides

Student: Daniel Spitzberg and Brittany Kieler
Course: N/A
Medium: Video
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Description: What began as a simple sculpture of sticks and slides exploded into digital indecision...

The Story of Sound

Student: Gabriel De Los Reyes
Course: Roberta Hill
Medium: Video
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Description: The Story of Sound is an attempt to fill the space between American identity and a tangled Chicano culture. This is how I've tried to comb through myself.

String Theory

Student: Carlyn Pitterle
Course: Screen Dance 560, Li Chiao-Ping
Medium: Video
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Description: Choreographed, performed, and edited by Carlyn Pitterle, filmed by Joe Fadden, music by Zoe Keating entitled Frozen Angels, length 4:22

Submarine Chase

Student: Allison Biesboer
Course: Art 529
Medium: Animation
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Description: This is a short 3D animation made with Audodesk Maya.

Surrounded by Paper Islands

Student: Laura Kim
Course: Art 699 Independent Study, Doug Rosenberg
Medium:Video
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Description: In my video projects, I am currently interested in finding ways to capture, fragment, reconstruct the everyday scene and impose a surreal moment or ambience within those spaces.

Theagenes <3 Charicleia

Student: Lee Dix
Course: English 401: Sidney’s Renaissance Prose
Medium: Poster
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Description: This is a poster diagram of the connection between the protagonists Theagenes and Charicleia in Heliodorus' Aethiopica (the Ethiopian Story).

Things I've Learned

Student: Benjamin Blohoweak
Course: English 553
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: An autobiographical narrative sketch of the author's intellectual development through formal and informal education...

Untitled

Student: Allison Biesboer
Course: Art 428 - Computer Imaging Techniques
Medium: Website/Flash
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Description: This project is an art-based web site made with Adobe Flash. The site features simple navigation with abstract shapes...

The Usual Suspects: The Graphic Novel

Student: Lee Dix
Course: English 563, Robin Valenza
Medium: Video
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Description: An argument of how and why to change this blockbuster film into a better narrative through a graphic novel.

What Happens When the Author Dies?

Student: Leah Misemer
Course: English 727: Digital Humanities, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Video
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Description: Taking Barthes's essay "The Death of the Author" as a starting point, this iMovie claims...

Word Laundry Blog

Student: Mary Feng Chen
Course: English 317
Medium: Blog
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Description: A project in which a group of students created a blog with the purpose of reaching out to the writing community in Madison.

Wounded Memory

Student: Stevie-Jay Marie Stapler
Course: English 550: Digital Media and Future Learning, Jon McKenzie
Medium: Digital Imagery, Graphic Essay
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Description: As an English major, I had never questioned the concept of the classic academic paper...