Student Portfolio

Ciara Gray: Projections of Race, Performance and Photographs in Gilded Frames

Citing classical paintings, Ciara Gray cut out white European figures from well-known works, projected them into a studio, and placed herself into the scene to examine the lack of representation in the canon of art history.

Ciara Gray: Projections of Race, Performance + Photographs in Gilded Frames

Citing classical paintings, Ciara Gray cut out white European figures from well-known works, projected them into a studio, and placed herself into the scene to examine the lack of representation in the canon of art history.

Ciara Gray: Projections of Race, Performance + Photographs in Gilded Frames

Citing classical paintings, Ciara Gray cut out white European figures from well-known works, projected them into a studio, and placed herself into the scene to examine the lack of representation in the canon of art history.

Janice Montoya: Ella y Yo, Dual Channel Video

In collaboration with her mother, Janice Montoya compares her own memories with those of her immigrant family. Using voice-over, photo albums, and family ephemera a gestural documentary is co-authored.

Janice Montoya: Ella y Yo, Dual Channel Video

In collaboration with her mother, Janice Montoya compares her own memories with those of her immigrant family. Using voice-over, photo albums, and family ephemera a gestural documentary is co-authored.

Janice Montoya: Ella y Yo, Dual Channel Video

In collaboration with her mother, Janice Montoya compares her own memories with those of her immigrant family. Using voice-over, photo albums, and family ephemera a gestural documentary is co-authored.

Janice Montoya: Ella y Yo, Dual Channel Video

In collaboration with her mother, Janice Montoya compares her own memories with those of her immigrant family. Using voice-over, photo albums, and family ephemera a gestural documentary is co-authored.

Janice Montoya: Ella y Yo, Dual Channel Video

In collaboration with her mother, Janice Montoya compares her own memories with those of her immigrant family. Using voice-over, photo albums, and family ephemera a gestural documentary is co-authored.

Janice Montoya: Ella y Yo, Dual Channel Video

In collaboration with her mother, Janice Montoya compares her own memories with those of her immigrant family. Using voice-over, photo albums, and family ephemera a gestural documentary is co-authored.

Monica Copping: Rebirth, Multi-channel video installation with silk organza panels

“Rebirth” combined ambient sound, scent, and moving imagery from the natural world to allude to cycles of birth and decay.

Monica Copping: Rebirth, Multi-channel video installation with silk organza panels

“Rebirth” combined ambient sound, scent, and moving imagery from the natural world to allude to cycles of birth and decay.

Monica Copping: Rebirth, Multi-channel video installation with silk organza panels

“Rebirth” combined ambient sound, scent, and moving imagery from the natural world to allude to cycles of birth and decay.

Monica Copping: Rebirth, Multi-channel video installation with silk organza panels

“Rebirth” combined ambient sound, scent, and moving imagery from the natural world to allude to cycles of birth and decay.

Monica Copping: Rebirth, Multi-channel video installation with silk organza panels

“Rebirth” combined ambient sound, scent, and moving imagery from the natural world to allude to cycles of birth and decay.

Monica Copping: Rebirth, Multi-channel video installation with silk organza panels

“Rebirth” combined ambient sound, scent, and moving imagery from the natural world to allude to cycles of birth and decay.

Jesse Thomas: Remix

Collage series produced from hip-hop album covers, custom vinyl record with tracks made from scanning imagery and implementing image-to-sound software.

Jesse Thomas: Remix

Collage series produced from hip-hop album covers, custom vinyl record with tracks made from scanning imagery and implementing image-to-sound software.

Jesse Thomas: Remix

Collage series produced from hip-hop album covers, custom vinyl record with tracks made from scanning imagery and implementing image-to-sound software.

Melissa Robertson: Jelly Face, Interactive 3D portrait

The artist’s self-portrait is encased within a saccharine picture frame. When viewers, clap, yell, or make sounds the portrait becomes de-stabilized.

Melissa Robertson: Jelly Face, Interactive 3D portrait

The artist’s self-portrait is encased within a saccharine picture frame. When viewers, clap, yell, or make sounds the portrait becomes de-stabilized.

Melissa Robertson: #ffff, cross-stitching, AR application for smartphone, and sound

Using the language of cross-stitching in combination with digital technology, Melissa Robertson combines media to parallel the history of pixel-based image-making and the unknown women who have been at the forefront of technology.

Melissa Robertson: #ffff, cross-stitching, AR application for smartphone, and sound

Using the language of cross-stitching in combination with digital technology, Melissa Robertson combines media to parallel the history of pixel-based image-making and the unknown women who have been at the forefront of technology.

Melissa Robertson: #ffff, cross-stitching, AR application for smartphone, and sound

Using the language of cross-stitching in combination with digital technology, Melissa Robertson combines media to parallel the history of pixel-based image-making and the unknown women who have been at the forefront of technology.

Melissa Robertson: Signal

Sourcing from magazine articles about women and technology, Melissa Robertson uses collage media and animation to pay homage to the women of color who were pioneers in innovation.

Melissa Robertson: Signal

Sourcing from magazine articles about women and technology, Melissa Robertson uses collage media and animation to pay homage to the women of color who were pioneers in innovation.

Mia Maniscalco: The Forgotten Project

Using source material from home movies and family albums, Mia Maniscalco creates large-scale collages to create new, fragmented landscapes that reflect the passage of time and the fleeting nature of memory.

Mia Maniscalco: The Forgotten Project

Using source material from home movies and family albums, Mia Maniscalco creates large-scale collages to create new, fragmented landscapes that reflect the passage of time and the fleeting nature of memory.

Mia Maniscalco: The Forgotten Project

Using source material from home movies and family albums, Mia Maniscalco creates large-scale collages to create new, fragmented landscapes that reflect the passage of time and the fleeting nature of memory.

I Wasn’t There: Collaborative Performance with video and Sound

Produced by Advanced Time-Based Media Students, “I Wasn’t There” invents a new creation myth using gesture and video and is largely is inpired by Camille Henrot’s “Grosse Fatigue.”

I Wasn’t There: Collaborative Performance with video and Sound

Produced by Advanced Time-Based Media Students, “I Wasn’t There” invents a new creation myth using gesture and video and is largely is inpired by Camille Henrot’s “Grosse Fatigue.”

Wayne Cook: Just Desserts, Performance video

In “Just Desserts” Wayne cook set a metronome and a homemade cake in a fabricated domestic setting. As the metronome dictates rhythm, he consumes the entirety of his dessert, a gesture that emphasizes consumption and movement in real-time.

Wayne Cook: Just Desserts, Performance video

In “Just Desserts” Wayne cook set a metronome and a homemade cake in a fabricated domestic setting. As the metronome dictates rhythm, he consumes the entirety of his dessert, a gesture that emphasizes consumption and movement in real-time.

Wayne Cook: Just Desserts, Performance video

In “Just Desserts” Wayne cook set a metronome and a homemade cake in a fabricated domestic setting. As the metronome dictates rhythm, he consumes the entirety of his dessert, a gesture that emphasizes consumption and movement in real-time.

Santiago Rodriguez: The Tapestries, digital collages printed on fabric, and multi-channel video installation

Using images of consumable objects, Santiago Rodriguez creates present-day tapestries that tell the history of desire and human consumption.

Santiago Rodriguez: The Tapestries, digital collages printed on fabric, and multi-channel video installation

Using images of consumable objects, Santiago Rodriguez creates present-day tapestries that tell the history of desire and human consumption.

Santiago Rodriguez: The Tapestries, digital collages printed on fabric, and multi-channel video installation

Using images of consumable objects, Santiago Rodriguez creates present-day tapestries that tell the history of desire and human consumption.

Still from “Unidentified Woman Musician” a collaborative class project that used the New Orlean’s Jazz Museum’s visual archive to recognize women musicians from the Jazz history canon who have previously been unseen and unknown.

Still from “Unidentified Woman Musician” a collaborative class project that used the New Orlean’s Jazz Museum’s visual archive to recognize women musicians from the Jazz history canon who have previously been unseen and unknown.

Still from “Unidentified Woman Musician” a collaborative class project that used the New Orlean’s Jazz Museum’s visual archive to recognize women musicians from the Jazz history canon who have previously been unseen and unknown.

Time-Based Media Student Collaboration: What Lies Inside

Students from Time-Based-Media class collaborated on a stop-motion animation that shows the dark side of circus characters for the public projection mapping festival in New Orleans, “Luna Fete”.

Time-Based Media Student Collaboration: What Lies Inside

Students from Time-Based-Media class collaborated on a stop-motion animation that shows the dark side of circus characters for the public projection mapping festival in New Orleans, “Luna Fete”.

Time-Based Media Student Collaboration: What Lies Inside

Students from Time-Based-Media class collaborated on a stop-motion animation that shows the dark side of circus characters for the public projection mapping festival in New Orleans, “Luna Fete”.

Media Monster Musical

Andrew Benton uses found news media and applies a video collage technique to critique the chaos of television reporting during the U.S. presidential election season.

Media Monster Musical

Andrew Benton uses found news media and applies a video collage technique to critique the chaos of television reporting during the U.S. presidential election season.

Parasomnia

Using the comic book format, Jesse Craig visually describes what it's like to experience "Parasomnia," a condition of dreaming while waking.

Parasomnia

Using the comic book format, Jesse Craig visually describes what it's like to experience "Parasomnia," a condition of dreaming while waking.