Bring Fractal to Figurative Art

2013 Honorable Mention

Student: Wanyi Chen
Course: Independent
Medium: 2d Images
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Description: Fractal maybe the cutest subjects that captures both science and art's view. Yet most artworks concerning fractal are abstract digital art. In this series of multi-media artworks, I combine photos, digital paintings, fractal fires generated in a software called Apophysis, and also some images produced by me in Mathematica to create a flavor of figurative art that features fractal element.
(Artists' statement:) It's widely observed that the work of nature sometimes follows  fractal rules, such as the structure of plants and texture of landform. If we jump out from this scientific view, and embrace the aesthetic perspective of fractal fires, I find that they seem to convey a much broader image of concrete objects. When I first play around with fractal and generate a picture with some random parameters, I was so amazed that it looked so much like feathers seen under a microscope. And that's the beginning of everything you see here...

Capitol in Black and White Photography

Student: Luana Genot
Course: Independent
Medium: Photography
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Description: Capitol in Black and White from a singular perspective.

Dyslexia

2013 Honorable Mention

Student: Maria Swanke
Course: English 100
Instructor: Devin Garofolo
Medium: Comicdoc
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Description: Dyslexia is a common learning disability that so many people do not understand, so when I was making this project, I tried to be informative. Growing up with dyslexia, I struggled with knowing that other people saw me as a child with a disability. Some of my teachers I had in elementary school were supportive, but many of my teachers ignored the signs, got frustrated with me and would embarrass me in front of my peers. It was at an early age that I decided I wanted to be an elementary school teacher, so I could be the compassionate and caring teacher for another student who struggled with school.There are so many better methods for teaching all children (especially dyslexic children) how to read and write using more sensory based learning techniques. My project discusses those techniques and the warning signs of dyslexia.

Ethos and Tech: The Evolving Paradigm of Collective Intelligence

Student: Katie Cullen
Course: C&I 209: Digital Media and Literacy
Instructor: Erica Halverson & TJ Kalaitzidis
Medium: Infographic
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Description: In our visualization, we chose to represent the changes from the classic encyclopedia of Encyclopedia Britannica to our current user-operated system of Wikipedia. We chose to use the data of how many articles were available over the years in the classic print version of the encyclopedia, the online software that Encyclopedia Britannica came out with in 2002, and Wikipedia today to demonstrate how the “new ethos” and “new technical” ideas shape the availability of knowledge.

An Illustration of Darth Vader

Student: Henry Erdman
Course: Independent
Medium: 2D Images
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Description: An illustration of Darth Vader.

Information Study #6: Emails from Laurel

Student: Paul Lorenz
Course: Independent
Medium: Images
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Description: In my recent work I’ve been interested in investigating ways that humans interact with mediating technologies. Specifically, I’m in interested in technology that can change the ways in which people interact with one another. In the sculptural series I’ve called Information Study #6: Emails from Laurel I’ve created a system that transforms one piece of information into another, radically different form of information. In this case, I’ve taken all of the emails sent to me from my wife during the first two weeks of our relationship and translated them into a series of physical objects: eighteen object from eighteen emails.

Little Pink Bows

Student: Marcie Waters
Course: Art 107 Intro to Digital Forms
Instructor: Meg Mitchell
Medium: Image
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Description: This work was created by scanning a 3D object, a barette in the shape of a bow, into a 2D scanner, and creating a vector image in Adobe Ilustrator. I then manipulated color and size to create a dynamic composition.

New Ethos

Students: Rachel Adam and Molly Hanson
Course: Curriculum and Instruction 209
Instructor: Erica Halverson & TJ Kalaitzidis
Medium: Infographic
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Description: Our final product shows how the collaborative and participatory qualities of “new ethos” combined with fluid rules and norms and distributed systems combine and overlap in many applications and web uses of the modern day world. Our visualization portrays this overlap with the branches and leaves located in between the main sections, and the reappearance of some application logos multiple times in various branch locations of “New Ethos”. Now complete, it is interesting to reflect upon the co-evolution of the design and the language we chose to use - a process in itself a representation of the “new ethos” of “new literacy”.

Photogether Mobile Application

Student: Jennifer Abramsky
Course: Independent
Medium: Application
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Description: We created the mock ups and presentation for the Photogether app because we saw an opportunity in the photo sharing market, and we were interested in learning more about the app environment.