Opinder Singh
This project involves research into the culture of the 1990s to get an understanding of the nostalgia perspective of that decade. The space involves people to interact with it by making drawn posters, print them and stick them all over the wall like a wall in a 90s bedrooms. The posters are about 90s mainstream culture and the goal is to invite people to have fun with it.
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Antoinette Gayo
Return to Fear City merges New York City’s past into the present with personal experiences, taking you back in time to the city’s most notable cultural landmarks of the late 20th century. Through present day-photos and archival videos, feelings of nostalgia and personal reflection question how much a location can change over time and whether the spirit still lives within it.
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Ryan Farrell
Ryan’s app helps increase productivity and establish positive and fulfilling habits while minimizing those that we aren’t so happy to have.
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Melissa Perdomo
Puerto Rico isn't always seen as a lace that has a big impact on the rest of the world "Los Recordamos" is a series of 5 books that talk about the arts that has have come from this small island whether it's music, painting, photography, culinary, or fashion. It informs that there are things to know about this place other than just beautiful beaches.
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Daniel Weatherington
This is an interactive e-book detailing my research into the psychology of social influence. During the past year I gathered research data about how web influencers, celebrities and other people gain popularity on social media and attract a following of people. This study goes in depth in how psychology plays a role in how people receive information from others. There is a level of conformity when group mentality is put into play. When addressing any large audience there are a few factors that come into play about how you are perceived such as social standing, intellect, appearance, appeal and legitimacy.
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Joseph Yoo
Joseph gets us thinking about United States history and theorizes what could have happened had we lost the Revolutionary War.
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Amanda Wisnack
New Rules is a way to claim back the word “influencers” to describe people who are doing things that are influential in a meaningful way. In our current digital world the term “influencer” has been coined to describe a person with a lot of followers that sells products on social media.
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Alexandra Lobo
Tragedy Cicadas is an interactive mystery installation based on issues regarding environmental sustainability. The title refers to a quote from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show where he compares recurring tragic events to a cicada’s cyclical life span. The world seems to be in a cycle of environmental disasters, air pollution, oil spills, plastic waste, and more. These stories grip the news for a short while, the public becomes concerned and outraged, but then some interest eventually fades until the next event occurs. This project addresses this lack of action by giving viewers a chance to investigate these issues and implement more sustainable solutions in their own lives.
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Ana Filomeno
Come fly with your honest flight attendant Ana and discover the most efficient and smartest way to travel in Peru.
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Sarah (Gee) Rim
Ashley Jankovic
Spurred by the realization that many young adults do not participate in organized religion, Losing My Religion tries to understand the complex realities of faith. This project invited four young adults across different faiths (Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism and Catholicism) to discuss the complexities of their relationship to the faith they were born into and why they no longer choose to practice. This discussion is culminated in a photograph of each participant dressed up as a figure from the faith they were born into, as an ironic but also affectionate way to physically and emotionally understand these connections—positive and negative.
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Ashley Lameiras
81 percent of women experience sexual harassment in their lifetime. Astounded by this pandemic, “Better Strangers” looks to question the cultural norms and behavior that causes such abuse. Through fun characters and humorous dialogue that come to life in a trilogy of books and a physically interactive space, viewers can question their own actions and become better allies for women.
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Elton Greenfield
Surroundings is an interactive design project aimed at opening up the political minds of it’s users. The project is not going to scold or lecture the user but instead enlighten the user on how the many variables that make up their identity can lend itself to shaping their political mind.
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Usra Attalla
Usra’s piece “A Loving Critique on Souvenirs” explores a history of cliche souvenir objects she has collected over her lifetime. Through the installation, the viewer is given the opportunity to see the clash of both the beauty of these objects as well as the issues that come with representing a nation through stereotypical imagery.
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Francesca Stoppa
The ekō design community is an online platform that aims to create a place of collaboration, learning, and inspiration for designers. It provides conceptual prompts that challenge the ordinary creative thinking process.
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Joel Novas
An open-ended visual piece that takes a look of the dystopian future that we find ourselves living in. Vyou is a zine project that weaves together philosophical concepts with the ongoing exploitative use of personal data and its value.
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Sydney Powell
Like the Life is a website aimed at representing the identities of black women through self curated imagery. On the website visitors can click on the personalized web page for each person and learn more about the individual. The pages are an accumulation of found images personal items that comes together to create that person's identity. It is dedicated to the identities of black women that often go under represented in white mainstream stories. This website works to tell the individual story of each black women presented in the website rather than relying on generalized representations and misconstrued stereotypes.
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Senary A. Chapman
This project focuses on the deconstruction of the horror genre and it’s treatment of women. I’ll be addressing the tropes used to inadvertently demean and sexualize women in matters that coincide with the male gaze. This project explores the concept of a “final girl” and looking into why horror is so big on not just the brutality of killing on a gendered standard, but the graphic sexual nature of it all. All in all the art piece is not so much a problem solver but a way into starting the conversation on the sexism that feeds on the graphic exploitation of the female body both dead and alive, fictional and real.
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Mike Rexroad
Figments is an interactive augmented reality piece that explores the idea of our imagination hiding in plain sight. By using technology as an observational lens, the imaginary becomes real and alive. Figments consists of four posters that all represent different worlds and only reveal their true contents when paired with the app on the tablet.
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Sarah Attalla
This walk-through pond uses some visual language from Islamic gardens and research from Islamic mysticism to create an immersive pathway for contemplation of the self. It explores the self both physically and metaphysically, searching beyond the body for answers on how to come to terms with oneself.
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Yang Xu
Chinese characters have experienced 5000 years of historical deposition and have been passed down to the present day. People whose non-native language is Chinese are difficult to understand ancient and beautiful Chinese characters due to cultural differences. 156 Chinese characters are synthesized by decomposing the components, and the Chinese characters are synthesized according to the relationship between the meanings. These characters combine with each other and with other characters to make new words. Through a simple method, it is easier for non-native speakers to understand the meaning and profound logic of Chinese characters.
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Kristen Miranda
Ubiety is defined as the state of existing in a specific point in space. This exhibition acts as a modern day surveillance room with content found from those living around you. Through documenting these spacing, I’ve noticed that each room is very reflective of the person’s character and personality. I even learned aspects of their lives that I never knew before by just entering the space, things that could never accurately be portrayed by a mere snapchat or instagram story.
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Euclides Faccin
Inspired by the photographic documentation my mother took as we immigrated to the United States from Brazil, “The Prescribed Memory” explores the idea of a forced narrative. I have always questioned pictures of my younger self living in Brazil because I have no memories of the majority of those images. However, I have to believe it happened because there is proof. How can we learn to trust what we can’t remember?
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Amanda Fraticelli
My project explores ideas and concepts in astrophysics through the means of a children’s book. I want kids/ young people to be able to understand concepts in physics in a fun and interesting way. The main plot point of my book will teach the reader what happens when you fall into a black hole. This concept will be explained by a cute illustrated duck who goes on a mission into space, has some fun along the way, teaches you about some concepts in space, and ultimately falls into a black hole himself.
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Christian Zelaya
Evan Ardanaz
A publication company focused on the relationship between adventure, adrenaline, climate change, and conservation. Printed magazines are paired with a website to highlight current trips that people (Thrill Club members) and I have gone on around the world and will keep people up to date with the current state of climate change and conservation.
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Jeffrey Gardner
Using physical and screen material, the aim of this project is to have viewers understand and call to action the growing distance between genuine human interaction as well as remembering the people that truly matter. Animated video will show mock app that asks you to remind those who matters most how much they mean to you. The posters will serve as a hyper-literal way of the overall message. Lastly, a large vinyl of a text thread will prompt users to write out messages to a loved one and put them on the wall.
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Kaylin Virone
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Lindsay Gelber
Mind forest is an interactive work which has viewers go through various mindpaths, or webpages, in order to reflect on themselves and why they react to certain animated paintings the way they do. How can they be more reflective in their everyday lives and observe emotions from a more objective point of view and how can this help them grow as an individual?
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Marisa Tedesco
This project challenges how we observe color. It creates a visual color experience while educating the viewer on the history of color and creating a discussion of color. Everyone that leaves will be left with a different way to go out and experience color in their everyday lives.
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Sunhith Reddy
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Kevin Tsui
Radleft is a collection of posters that incorporate text and imagery from previous American protests. The name is a commentary on how progressive ideas are seen as radical. The posters can be viewed on the website, where users can download and print the posters for their own use.
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