Student projects for exhibition were selected by a jury of faculty from Carolina, Duke and NC State. These projects will be on display at the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial in the Kresge Foundation room at the following times:

Tuesday: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Admission to the exhibition is free and open to the public.

Works on Display

The Foundations of the Earth
Creator: Cameron Jones, Colin Jones (Duke Undergraduates)
Medium: Short Film (Video)

The Foundations of the Earth, a film adapted from the short story by Randall Kenan by undergraduate students in Elisabeth Benfey's spring '09 screenwriting class at Duke. Kenan is an African-American writer who teaches literature at UNC. The movie also involved UNC students, and a teacher, Kathy Williams, who teaches acting at UNC.

 
The Speed of Sound
Creator: John Peter Caforo (Duke Undergraduate)
Media: Flash Animation and Website

This project is a Web site/Flash Video supplement created by a Duke undergraduate as a supplement to Professor Alan Biermann’s children’s book about Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.  The demo aims to teach children about the physics of sound waves in a fun an interactive way by allowing them to pilot an aircraft and watch how the sound waves emanate from the plane.  The demo is simple to understand and operate and children have fun playing it.  


Segmented Memories from Parallel Universes
Creator: Neo Chung (Duke Undergraduate)
Medium: Flash Interactive Database Video
Faculty Advisor: Josh Gibson

"Segmented memories from parallel universes" is an interactive database video, exploring the artist’s, Neo Chung’s, maturation process from adolescence to early adulthood set to the backdrop of diverse political and social landscapes. From a 30 hour long archive of the artist’s life in Australia, Korea, South Africa, and United States, 34 small narrative units were extracted and given associated key words. This database, without definite paths, allows viewers, not only to interpret the story, but also to take control of how the story is unfolded in front of them. Thus, viewers navigate interactively through Neo Chung’s psychological and physical journey narrated by commentaries from his family and friends.


San Francesco a Folloni: A Historical Reconstruction
Creators: Rebecca Wood (Duke Graduate Student) and Michal Koszyski (Duke Undergraduate)
Media: Sketchup Models and Website

San Francesco a Folloni, founded by St. Francis in the early thirteenth century, exemplifies the ad-hoc architectural style of many Franciscan monasteries, and in its structure lies a timeline of the people and events that shaped it. Through the lenses of historical, architectural, and digital study, we translated this timeline into a 3-D Sketchup model over a two-week site visit to San Francesco. The project culminated in a video depicting our site-informed hypotheses about the architectural progression of the monastery.


The Basilica of Santa Croce: 1228, 1252, 1295
Creators: Alexandra Dodson (Duke Graduate Student) and Laura Fravel (UNC Graduate Student)
Media: Sketchup Models and Website

This project was designed and completed for "WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials," a Visual Studies course taught at Duke University during the 2009 Spring semester by a faculty team that included Caroline Bruzelius, Sheila Dillon, Mark Olson, Rachael Brady, and Raquel Salvatella de Prada.  We utilized digital resources to reconstruct the original appearance and later constructional phases of the Basilica of Santa Croce, a monumental church of the Franciscan Order of Friars in Florence, Italy.  Grounded in historical research, our reconstruction is a compelling alternative to traditional written descriptions and 2D drawings.

 
Disestablishmentarianism
Creator: Mike Nutt (UNC Graduate Student)
Medium: HD Video

Disestablishmentarianism is a short experimental video. In it, the artist performs a reading of a text by cultural theorist Larry Grossberg. In the background is a collage comprised of various documentary elements – including artifacts from the artist’s own life and video appropriated from the works of surrealist underwater filmmaker Jean Painleve and a piece by videographer Helen Kearns (which itself was a manipulation of several ethnographic films). The soundtrack is comprised mostly of noise music recorded live at performances by the groups Boyzone and Macronypha, but also includes part of a sound composition by the artist that was created from a single half-second long sample.


Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms
Creator: Whitney Anne Trettien (Duke Graduate Student)
Medium: Interactive Website

This piece of digital criticism excavates the deep history of text-generating mechanisms, from the spinning paper wheels of the German baroque to the cut-up methods of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Beyond simply historicizing ars combinatoria (or the art of combination) the work itself forces its reader to physically manipulate language to make meaning. In this way, the digital present becomes quite literally a map for exploring programmatic epistemologies in our past. This work was produced as my master's thesis for the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, under the direction of William Uricchio, Ed Barrett and Kurt Fendt. http://www.whitneyannetrettien.com/thesis/


Queer Technologies
Creator: Zach Blas (Duke Graduate Student)
Media: Website and Material Objects

Queer Technologies is a company, an art collective, and an activist group that produces a product line for queer technological agency, interventions, and social formation. QT products include transCoder, a queer programming anti-language; ENgenderingGenderChangers, a “solution” to Gender Adaptersʼ male/female binary; and Gay Bombs, a technical manual manifesto that outlines a “how to” of queer networked activism. QT products are often displayed and deployed at the Disingenuous Bar, which offers a heterotopic space for political support for “technical” problems. QT products are also shop-dropped in various consumer electronics stores, such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, and Target. http://www.queertechnologies.info


Duke Demo Reel: Maya and Animation

Monstrous Corporations
Creators: Lucas Best (Duke Undergraduate), Brent Sodman (Duke Undergraduate), and Rebecca Wood (Duke Graduate Student)
Medium: Maya Animation Video

Monstrous Corporations was the final project for Duke University’s fall 2009 Virtual Form & Space course with Casey Alt. The project challenged students to use the Maya 3-D animation program to imagine modern business corporations as living, physically embodied creatures by generating their bodies from corporate data. The result is a series of short videos illustrating the anatomy and behaviors of their final corporate organisms.

Heaven and Hell
Creators: Courtney Conner, Risa Daniels, Christine Hall, Anne Johnson, Caroline Lee, Claire Li, Katie Noel, Shayna Pekala, Zongjin Quian, Katy Terrell, Dai Weng, Tong-Tong Xiang and Chelsea Zhow (Duke Undergraduates)
Medium: Video Animation

Logo Animations
Creators: Sophia Cui, Ashley Demass, Paul Hiatt, Akara Lee, Sue Li, Joshua Lim, Daniel Piech, Steve Schoeefel, Lydia Yao (Duke Undergraduates)
Medium: Video Animation

Kitchens and Living Rooms
Creators: Nancy Chen, Willie Du, Peter Hollender, Sue Li, Umberto Plaja, Melody Rowell, Eric Wheeler, Mimi Zhan (Duke Undergraduates)
Medium: 3D Modeling and Animation

Heaven and Hell, Logo Animations, and Kitchens and Living Rooms were individual class projects created under the direction of Raquel Salvatella de Prada at Duke.


NC State Demo Reel: Flash Animation
Medium: Flash Video

Stopmotion
Creator: Donnie Wrights (NC State Graduate Student)

How To Be A Good Sport
Creator: Marc Russo (NC State Graduate Student)

Skittles
Creator: Jay Brown (NC State Undergraduate)

The Secret Life of Joshua Andrassy
Creator: Joshua Andrassy (NC State Undergraduate)

Soul Calibrated
Creator: Corbin Prim (NC State Undergraduate)

Untitled
Creator: Greg Pray (NC State Undergraduate)
 
Final
Creator: Greg Pray (NC State Undergraduate)

Untitled
Creator: Lidia Churakova (NC State Undergraduate)

Sock Gnomes
Creator: Stacie McGowen (NC State Graduate Student)

Untitled
Creator: Jaqueline Goyena (NC State Undergraduate)

Aim All Alone
Creator: Michael Delaney (NC State Undergraduate)

Morning Routine
Creator: Adam Winsor (NC State Undergraduate)