(A/I)llusion

STUDENT
Robert Walter

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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The photographs were made using a Pixelstick — the text is stored on a memory card attached to a 6-foot rod of 200 LEDs. The camera takes a long exposure photo as I walk by with the Pixelstick, and the letters appear to float in midair.

Amnesia

STUDENT
Alex Orellana

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Video (3:06)

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As an undergraduate I was hit by a car and suffered a long period of anterograde amnesia. I couldn't form new memories and spent my day trying to understand where I was, how I got there, and where I was going. My goal with this editing strategy is to replicate that experience.

And The River Keeps Rolling by Frankie Pobar Lay

STUDENT
Seok Hyun 'Stan' Eun: Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Assistant Editor
Katie Kamperschroer: Assistant Camera Operator, Main Editor
Christopher Spies: Assistant Camera Operator, Main Editor

COURSE
Comm Arts 609

MEDIUM
Video (3:25)

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This music video follows the course of the day, from night, to day and again to night. The process of the song's recording is a lot like the idea of the song itself. Imperfection, being unsure of oneself, random inspiration, the extremes of a nice acoustic layered with slightly out of tune electric, too much going on from too many different players and sounds, all swept up and lost in a river subtly screaming impermanence.

Brush and Cup

STUDENT
Hillary Kuhlemeier

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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This work was created with the intent to showcase my technical proficiency in Illustrator. I created this piece with the fewest amount of control points and bezier handles possible. My intent was to take a mundane object and represent it graphically, it is something that is familiar to everyone and something that everyone can relate to and take comfort in.

Chance / Collage

STUDENT
Yiting Liu

COURSE
Art 107 - Intro to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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The Face Shadow collage shows a man in the center, staring right into the audience. The contrast color of red and green used in order to create the maximum of the conflict to people and make the man stand out, creating a mysterious sensation.
The Pointing Fingers collage points to the center and the sides are filled with prison-ish sensations. The "Live Free" also yearns for the freedom and give a feeling of the urge to run away from the place.

Chinese Yuan

STUDENT
Qiushi Zheng

COURSE
Art 107 - Intro to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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I am from China and this project is the best I have yet that reflects the beauty of my country's culture.

Download the SketchUp Pro document here.

Consumerism and Human Labor in Ancient China

STUDENT
Weixen Ji

COURSE
Art 107 - Intro to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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This artwork is a street view of Shanghai Band in 1935, China. In my work I combined a car ad on the top of the bus in order to reflect consumerism at that period of time. There's also a modern lady wearing a nice dress walking across the street, which is a deep contrast with the busy human labor who earn little money by pulling rickshaws.

Cosmetics & Cameras

STUDENT
Amy Drew
Andrea Endries
Elizabeth Semi

COURSE
Comm Arts 522 - Digitally Documenting Everyday Communication

MEDIUM
Video (11:00)

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This video features one-on-one interviews with Midwestern upperclassmen women at UW-Madison discussing their everyday use of make-up.

Crunch Time

STUDENT
Matthew Brinza: Director
Shan Sivanushanthan: Head Editor

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Video (17:36)

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Project Freshman 15,000 is a student organization formed by UW-Madison students with one goal: create the world's largest Rice Krispie treat!  This documentary follows their attempt to snap the previous record.

The Griddle

STUDENT
Grace Kaiser

COURSE
Design Studies 623: Interior Architecture IV

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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The Griddle is a place for college students and families to come together to de-stress and reconnect over breakfast food. The menu emphasizes specialty waffles with fun combinations for all. Customers experience an enjoyable, relaxing atmosphere. The Griddle also has “syrup on tap” letting customers experience syrup infused with unusual, exotic flavors. All renderings were produced through Revit where I 3D modeled some furniture with custom modeling in pieces like both bars, booths, banquette seating, and light fixtures. I chose materials that were warm and light-hearted, with accents of gold and copper to add spontaneity throughout the space. I took the renderings and enhanced them with Photoshop and put the boards together using InDesign.; AS: We needed to come up with a concept for a restaurant located on State Street. I decided on a specialty waffle bar since that is a family friendly environment that people of all ages could enjoy, and there isn't one currently on State Street. I went further and put my own twist on the restaurant creating a syrup bar with "syrup on tap"--syrups infused with unusual, exotic flavors, to further the customer experience. I wanted this place to be somewhere people could come relax and de-stress while enjoying each other's company over breakfast food.

He(art) on our Hands

STUDENT
Sylvia Hecht

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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You can usually spot artists by the little bits of our souls that stain our sleeves and the spaces under our fingernails. Surrender to the souvenirs of your expression.

Photograph and digital editing done by me as a piece for my personal website and brand. More at glitchpepper.com

Hometown

STUDENT
Yimeng (Monica) Li

COURSE
Art 429 - 3D Digital studio I

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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I chose traditional Chinese architecture to represent my life in the past 22 years.  I'm a Chinese girl and studied in America since freshman year. Even though I have stayed in the US for almost 4 years,  my thinking, my behavior, and my lifestyle still work in a Chinese way. So, I wanted to find something that can highly represent China.  I chose Chinese architecture which has huge differences with other countries and can have a meaning of home as well.

I am CALS

STUDENT
Austyn Chervenka: Director and Editor
Mitch Stingl: Director and Editor
Quamaine Bond: Audio
Dan Davies: Camera

COURSE
LSC 314 - Intro to Video Production

MEDIUM
Video (5:08)

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This video was created for the College of Agriculture and Life Science to show to prospective CALS students.

Kayon

STUDENT
Rebecca Haas

COURSE
Independent project

MEDIUM
Video (15:19)

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A film propelled by questions of identity, KAYON follows tattoo artist Bhoman Kayon, a Bali native, who recently opened his own tattoo studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin. This short explores how Bhoman maintains his artistic identity through the unique trust he builds with customers, as well as how he remains tied to his spiritual home of Indonesia while living and working in Berlin.

Lago Bianco

STUDENT
Selia Salzsieder

COURSE
Art 107 - Introduction to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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Digital collage using found imagery.

Language Influences Culture, Thoughts, and Identity

STUDENT
Kristen Luckow

COURSE
English 100

MEDIUM
Graphic Essay

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My creation is meant to educate the viewer through factual data and information, with the aid of photographs and visuals. The visuals are meant to further enhance the learning process, forming visual connections to the coinciding text.

Legacies of War in El Salvador

STUDENT
Evelyn Galindo

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Multimedia; Website; Blog

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This blog is an archive of my graduate research and fieldwork.

I am a PhD student studying the cultural production in El Salvador.

Look

STUDENT
Shelby Kahr

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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In my digital collage, I wanted to create a cohesive narrative that connected the diverse range of emotions shown from all the different women featured within the piece. Uniting them all is the inherent judgement bound from our society's long history of objectifying women. :-)

The Lurch

STUDENT
Kate Nikles

COURSE
Art 107 - Intro to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Animation (2:29)

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A short stop motion film.

My Video Resume

STUDENT
Travis Senn

COURSE
Life Sciences Communication 314 - Intro to Video Production

MEDIUM
Video (2:05)

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When brainstorming themes and ideas for my project, I continually found myself returning to my passion (nature) and my talents (visual arts). I decided it would be best to showcase my skills through work I had done. I compiled my work into a video resume that displayed what I was capable of, while providing a voiceover narrative detailing both where I came from and where I'm going.

Portrait Nouveau

STUDENT
Jessica Kostopolus

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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A digital portrait based on a life model, with inspiration taken from the Art Nouveau movement that occurred in western Europe and the US in the 1800s.

Processed Memories

STUDENT
Rachel Burnham

COURSE
English 271

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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This project is focused on the actual development rather than the final product itself. The process I decided to focus on was editing photos using Photoshop. I decided on this because I am really interested in the way that editing an image affects the way people interpret its meaning. The way that we experience an image is dependent on how the artist chooses to portray. I am interested in understanding why people choose to portray an edited version of reality; in some ways a replication of the truth but in others a deviation from it.

Real and Unreal

STUDENT
Yiran Liu

COURSE
Art428- Digital Imaging Studio

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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The Object and the Event is a surrealistic image that combines realistic scenes with unrealistic event.
The famous people club is a manipulated image that creates a imaginary meeting of figures that are from different time period or places.

Repetition

STUDENT
Matthew Brinza

COURSE
Art 107 - Intro to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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Headphones are used repeatedly to create a symmetric and balanced composition.
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Through the use of repetition of the same bottle, the second piece aims to play with the ideas of shape and depth.

Saturday Night

STUDENT
Elizabeth Semi

COURSE
Comm Arts 522 - Digitally Documenting Everyday Communication

MEDIUM
Audio (8:40)

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This is a podcast, I conducted an interview with a couple who a few weeks earlier the boyfriend had been in a serious snowmobiling accident that left him permanently disabled. I explore the dynamics of their relationship as she takes care of him while also going through nursing school.

Scary: Category Information Graphic

STUDENT
Grace Meurer

COURSE
Art 463 - Information Graphics

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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Connections between random facts and statistics were made throughout 9 iPad frames with the use of color, line and text.

Self Portrait (Memory Library)

STUDENT
Ye Ji

COURSE
Art 429- 3D Digital Studio I

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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A self portrait is about talking about oneself. Talking about oneself is about forming a narrative with selective memories. This is an opinionated process. What one chooses to show to others about themself is often far from the whole picture and/or others' perception.

Specters

STUDENT
Christy Wahl

COURSE
Art 448-Digital Imaging Studio

MEDIUM
Video (3:08)

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This short video plays with the idea of the “uncanny,” a concept originally laid out by Sigmund Freud in his eponymous essay of 1919.  The German word for uncanny (unheimlich) is, he tells us, the opposite of the familiar or “belong[ing] to the home” (heimlich) and this music video of sorts thinks with this idea in its literal form—a house. We are invited into a doll’s house in which things and people are concealed and the inanimate and animate switch roles.

Spitball Bearings: Baseball and the Unruly World

STUDENT
Brian Hamilton

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Graphic Essay

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An illustrated blog post exploring nine moments in the environmental history of baseball. Published on EDGE EFFECTS, a publication of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies' Center for Culture, History and Environment. Brian Hamilton is the author and Dave Hamilton the illustrator.

Tapped Out: Life of a Bartender

STUDENT
AnaElise Beckman - Creator/Collaborator
Taylor Galaszewski
Lauren Kolodny
Katie Vinje

COURSE
Comm Arts 522 - Digitally Documenting Everyday Communication

MEDIUM
Video (7:38)

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This video illustrates the comic hardships of working as a bartender in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. From drink throwing customers to the intoxicated nude, the scenes witnessed by a bartender during the Madison nightlife are never dull. Here are their stories.

The Textbook Problem

STUDENT
Lily Hansen

COURSE
Journalism 202

MEDIUM
Multimedia, Website

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This site was created in September 2015 as a semester-long multimedia project.

I was really involved with the project and found the topic relevant and important enough to include additional informative stories, ASFs and photo elements. Textbook pricing is a more complex issue than most people realize. It tends to be portrayed as rather two-sided (expensive vs necessary), but from my interviews and research, I uncovered an aspect I, and maybe many others, hadn't thought of before- textbook affordability for particular students. I'm really proud of this project and think I did a thorough job showcasing the broad perspectives on this issue.

To Whom This May Concern:

STUDENT
Tiffany Ike - Concept and Digital Creation
Godson Inikori - Initial Sketch

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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There are days where we forget to tell ourselves how lucky we are to be ourselves. Let this be a reminder.

What a Week!

STUDENT
Yiting Liu

COURSE
Art 107 - Intro to Digital Forms

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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This shows the relationship between my emotions in accordance with the ratio of time of sleeping and studying. The emotions are induced by the amount of workload, deadline and entertainment throughout the week.

Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture

STUDENT
Marcus Cederstrom
Colin Connors - Co-Producer
Tom DuBois - Co-Producer
Tim Frandy - Co-Producer
Carrie Roy - Editor

COURSE
Independent

MEDIUM
Video (15:02)

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Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture was designed to teach Ojibwe youth the art of birchbark canoe building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. This innovative program used a preventative and culturally-situated intervention to improve health and wellness outcomes within targeted youth.

ZhuangZi's Butterfly

STUDENT
Xueyan Wang

COURSE
Art 429- 3D Digital Studio I

MEDIUM
Digital Imagery

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This was initially for a course assignment that asked us to create a self portrait. I decided to try to articulate one particular emotion, or maybe a series of thoughts, that is personally important to me. The work resonates with the story of ZhuangZi's dream of himself becoming a butterfly, in which the ancient Chinese philosopher questions after waking up, 'Did I dream of myself becoming a butterfly? Or am I the dream of a butterfly?' In creating this part digital and part hand-drawn work, I was interested in exploring the delicate relationship of what’s considered realities to what’s thought of as non-realities. The work helped me articulate and reflect on the delicate notion of distinguishing the two as separates.