{Confounding Variable}

Student: Robert Gryzynger
Course: CA 651
Medium: Video (1:36)
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Description: { Confounding Variable } is a single-channel video that explores long-forgotten transgression and the fallibility of one's own recollections.

¡OYE! - My Day Off

Student: Karl Iglesias
Course: Independent
Medium: Video (1:40)
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Description: Promo track for the upcoming release "The Brown Bomber" on the James "Groove" Chambers produced Nappy Roots track.

The Algo-numeric Daughter

Student: Alexis Brown
Course: English 481
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: We created a comic that alegorized the relationship between ourself and our algonumeric double. I explored the effects of orality, literacy, and numeracy in the context of familial relations.

Amanda's Educational Digital Story

Student: Amanda Kohl
Course: C&I 322
Medium: Video (2:20)
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Description: A teacher's views on education can never be fully articulated through words. Sometimes it's better to use technology. The combination of words, sounds, and pictures help bring teachers' views of education closer to life than words and paper suggest.

The American Dream

Student: Casey Ayala, Ronald Jr. Daley,
Rachel Bozich, Mark Pedone
Course: Inter L&S 106
Medium: Audio (41:18)
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Description: Artists reflect upon life experiences through personal narrative and a series of interviews. Generational gaps are analyzed throughout, and the way the American Dream has evolved forms the construction of the piece.

...And One For All

Student: Ezra Knickelbine, Steve Horn
and Cory Roseth
Course: LS 106
Medium: Audio (32:03)
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Description: And One For All is a radio piece which explores the concept of self-identity as perceived in the framework of a group.

Antigone: An Atomic Soliloquy

Student: Sally Younger
Course: Independent
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: Pride and notoriety redrawn as tragedy’s boldest criminal returns to a stage more dystopian than antique. A heroine with discord for a pedigree. Pathos made radioactive, the iconography is pop and the sorrow timeless.

Awakening

Student: Chris Bocast and Emily Blessing
Course: Environmental Studies 999
Medium: Audio (14:04)
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Description: Electronic chamber music / / Electric guitar/ebow, acoustic piano, double bass, field recordings / /

Aware

Student: Erica Lubetsky
Course: Design Studies 327
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: A collection of digitally designed eco-friendly handbags inspired by the Japanese phrase Mono No Aware, meaning the "transient nature of life".

Baksteen

Student: Peter Zlebek
Course: ART 346
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: Baksteen is a bitmap typeface based off a brick structure. Visually, pieces unite to create letterforms.

Boys' Physiology

Students: Stephanie Bobeck, Evan Malsbury, Laura Mannino,
Kat Michalski, Ben Ruyle, Zoe Schall,
Brittany Sellers, Avery Spencer
Course: Nursing 219
Medium: Still Images and Audio(6:36)
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NOTE: This project was created with assistance from the Engage Program.

A Call to Action

Student: Stephen Ranjan
Course: Technology Entrepreneurship
Medium: Video (1:01)
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Description: My call to action to help address issues around poverty and health around the world.

The Caretaker

Student: Collin La Fleur
Course:Independent
Medium: Animation (2:19)
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Description: "The Caretaker" is an animated short about a young boy forced into bad decisions for good reasons. The setting is inspired by the Jamaican countryside, where corrugated steel structures rest precariously on the steep slopes of verdant jungle.

Christina Rencontre's Decorated Journal: Stereotypes, Racism, Prejudice, Fear

Student: Christina Rencontre
Course: AIS 450
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: This Decorated Journal was originally an assignment for Dr. Roberta Hill’s course titled: AIS 450 Creative Native Process.

Cover Your Mouth!

Student: Kathleen Lewis
Course: ART 458
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: These posters campaign against people who don't close their mouths when they should to be polite.

Comanche

Student: Natasha Soglin
Course: Independent
Medium: Digital Image
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Description:Pit bull terrier with a skin condition. For Tia Torres and other staff and volunteer members at Villalobos Rescue Center.

Conflict

Student: Adam Mechtley
Course: Independent
Medium: Video Game/Animation
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Description: Conflict is a brief interactive experience that allows players to explore their ethics.

Curb Magazine

Student: Cailley Hammel
Course: J417
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: Curb magazine is an annual publication produced by 20 dedicated students at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The class is responsible for creating a central concept and demographic for Curb, pitching and creating all content for both print and the website, selling advertising, building a website and designing the magazine.

Daily Dose

Student: Erica Lubetsky and Gina Adamski
Course: Design Studies 327
Medium: Animation (0:42)
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Description: Using stop motion animation and what we learned about patterns and repetition in the course, we created a short stop motion animation film to narrate a story.

Death of a Beatmaker Trailer

Student: Karl Iglesias
Course: Independent
Medium: Video (1:32)
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Description: The promotional trailer for the debut solo project from Klassik. The Milwaukee artist has already rooted himself in hip-hop with his unique ability to produce the innovative and unexpected. Call him the Music Man, call him Genius, call him Crazy. Whatever you do, just don't call him a beatmaker....

Day in the Life of a Preteen

Students: Courtney Roemer, Tiffany Shepard,
Rabeea Canevenhoven, Suzanne Vinohradsky
Course: Nursing 219
Medium: Still Images and Audio(7:08)
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NOTE: This project was created with assistance from the Engage Program.

NOTE: This project was created with assistance from the Engage Program.

Dear Humans,

Student: Matt Gaydos
Course: Independent
Medium: Video Game/Animation
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Description: Dear Humans is a puzzle platform game developed during the 2011 Global Game Jam. It's got laser beams, spikes, fans, and dodo-birds.

NOTE: This project was created during the Global Game Jam.

Digital Designs

Student: Erica Lubetsky
Course: Design Studies 501
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: This series of digital designs demonstrates photoshop skills learned in the Design Studies 501 class taught by Lisa Frank and how they can be applied to the textile and apparel design industry.

DNA Replication Made Frizzy

Student: Paul Robert Johnson
Course: Introductory Biology 151
Medium: Video (3:46)
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Description: “DNA Replication Made Frizzy” animates the process of DNA replication using legos as nucleotides and gloved hands as enzymes.

Dolphin's Cry

Student: Yoonsin Oh
Course: Independent
Medium: Animation
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Description: Dolphin’s Cry is inspired by the documentary film, The Cove, which uncovered the Japanese massacre of dolphins.

Enzyme Structure and Function

Student: Jose Orihuela, Jonathan Lang,
Tanya Syal, Hanting Fan
Course: Honors Zoology 151
Medium: Video (6:07)
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Description: Enzymes serve as catalysts in chemical reactions. Along with conventional graphs and definitions, this video tutorial uses real-life examples in order to describe the function and structure of enzymatic reactions in the body.

Fall

Student: Nickolas T. Good
Course:
2D Animation, CA 609
Medium:
Animation (3:31)

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Description: Flash animation that meditates on the inner emotions of two individuals during an autumn day.

Fin


Student: Kevin Harris
Course: Independent
Medium: Video Game/Animation
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Description: Players experience the final moments of a finned shark.

From Whence You Came

Student: Nic Bitting
Course: Independent
Medium: Video/Sculpture (1:28)
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Description: From Whence You Came is the third piece in a series of kinetic sculptures entitled - The Tree Swings.

Girls Physiology 101

Students: Lara Capangpangan, Kelly Horn,
Alicia Johnson, Courtney Krueger
Course: Nursing 219
Medium: Digital Images and Audio(9:11)
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NOTE: This project was created with assistance from the Engage Program.

Helvetica Anatomy

Student: Laijingjing Zhou
Course: Independent
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: This set, an anatomy of the famous font Helvetica, shows two versions of the same poster, one in normal mode (how it will present finally), the other in outline mode (how I construct it in Adobe Illustrator).

InkRed Website

Student: Niko Reyes Tumamak
Course: Independent
Medium: Website
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Description: This is a website made my apparel company. All graphics and codes are made/rendered by myself.

Internationalization in Higher Education:A Study Abroad Experience

Student: Joshua Juedes
Course: ELPA 881
Medium: Video
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Description: A contemporary analysis on the outcomes of Study Abroad at UW-Madison and in Higher Education.

K 9's Teaching and Becoming...

Student: Lisa Hoon
Course: Independent
Medium: Video
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Description: Service Canines play a crucial role in educating humans about what it means to be human.

An Interpretation of Film Applied to Digitally Designed Textiles

Student: Alex Kling
Course: Design Studies
Medium: Images and Textiles

Description: The films of several famous movie directors inspire my digitally designed textile patterns. For each director I have watched several of his or her films and taken notes on their style and any repetitive motifs appearing throughout the films.

L'Ecole Bistro in Spring Green, Wisconsin

Student: Stephanie Coffaro
Course: DS 322
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: The Bistro Project was part of the Interior Design II curriculum at UW-Madison in the Fall of 2010.

LIDS

Student: Liana Zorn
Course: 3D Animation: ART 448
Medium: Animation (1:15)
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Description:“LIDS” is an animation created in Maya and compiled in After Effects. This was my first attempt at animating in Maya during a short summer class. Our assignment was to create a robot character and simply animate it doing something.

The Lexington Avenue Bistro

Student: Shannon Stuntebeck
Course: Interior Design II, DS 322
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: The "White School House" in Spring Green, Wisconsin presented an interesting opportunity for the design of a bistro that would offer fresh and local cuisine to residents and visitors of the small town.

Light Journal

Student: Rebecca Hovel
Course: Intro to Media Production, 355
Medium: Video (0:53)
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Description: This project explores the interaction of a multitude of materials with light, in both natural and staged environments.

Loft Restaurant

Student: Hannah Dorsky
Course: Interior Design DS 623
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: Restaurant design for a small hotel opening in New York City. The client has asked for a modern, youthful New York concept that can be carried throughout the space and allows for dining and lounging.

Mercury - The Potent Element

Student: Chris Bocast
Course: Independent
Medium: Audio (20:55)
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Description: Mercury – the Potent Element is the first in a series of podcasts produced by Chris Bocast for his project assistantship at UW’s Water Resources Institute.

Mobile Phones and Emerging Privacy: Invasion Issues in West Africa

Student: Taofeeq Adekunle Yusuf
Course: J676, New Media and Society
Medium: Animation
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Description: This work traces how mobile phones, which have brought about phenomenal social and economic transformation in the lives of African peoples, are gradually becoming privacy invasion tools in the hands of west African governments

The Mosaic

Student: Rebekah Spidle
Course: DS 633
Medium: Video (1:42)
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Description: The objective of this video clip is to evoke thoughts and feelings about an interior design restaurant project, completed in Interior Design 4 during the fall semester of 2010.

New Evian V Advertisement

Student: Oren Katz
Course: Interactive Media Strategy, J445
Medium: Animation
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Description: There are many "random" health factoids hovering around us. Incorporating them into our individual lives, or not, depends on whether they resonate with our goals, values or needs. The Beverage Survey provides a relevant nutrition message using interactivity.

Pirouette on the Precipice

Student: Robert Gryzynger
Course: Artist's Video 518
Medium: Video (2:37)
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Description: Pirouette on the Precipice is a single channel video that confronts humanity's power to destroy and its uncanny ability to be complacent and complicit with its own destruction.

Police Liaisons

Student: Allison Gilmore
Course: Legal Studies 400
Medium: Video (15:55)
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Description: The 2010 Fall course, Legal Studies 400 – Juvenile Justice with a Comparative Perspective, taught by Professor Ralph Grunewald, was awarded the “ENGAGE Adaptation Award 2010.”

The Reaper in Her Garden

Student: Riyoku Sakimori
Course: Independent
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: The Gardener stands in the pool of life and takes off her helmet.

A Rose by Any Other Number

Student: Jessica Greene
Course: English 481
Medium: Graphic Essay
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Description: In my project, I have aimed to explain the concepts of numeracy, dataveillance, and the algo-numeric double through a story that contains aesthetic and narrative conventions of film noir.

Seven Hills

Student: Signe Brewster
Course: Independent
Medium: Website
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Description: Seven Hills (www.sevenhills.tumblr.com) is an independent blog that chronicles a University of Wisconsin junior's experiences in the fifteen cities and eight countries she visited while studying abroad.

Shelley

Student: Chad Smith
Course: Independent
Medium: Digital Image
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Description: Digital technology has become ubiquitous; hardly one of us is walking around without a phone that is not only a phone but a camera, music player, messenger and internet browser as well.