Marie Helser, “Accessible Theater: How Disability-Led Arts Can Guide Us Towards a Brighter Future” Mentor: Ralph Janes, Theatre Poster #132 For millennia, theater has been a manifestation of humanity’s ability to create, learn, and empathize. Unfortunately, in many places, access…… Read More
Jack Kannenberg, “Automation in Entertainment & Theatrical Settings” Mentor: Steve White, Theater Poster #82 Since their inception, theaters have evolved from simple outdoor playing spaces to some of the most technologically advanced buildings constructed. Most theatres have fly systems, a…… Read More
Ashley Bohne and Michal Schwab, “Divergent Fates” Mentor: Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Art & Design Poster #52 In 2018, professor Yevgeniya Kaganovich launched the project Divergent Fates, a project diving into Kaganovich’s longstanding research interests in materiality, particularly her research into reused…… Read More
Beth Lemerand and Karissa Demotto, “Ecosystems of Communities” Mentor: Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Art & Design Poster #92 Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and her team of Karissa Demotto and Beth Lemerand are working towards providing a framework for community-based art and science learning and…… Read More
Mackenzie Savin, “Heavy is the Crown: The Vaun Mayes Documentary” Mentor: Sean Kafer, Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres Oral Presentation Block 2 For the third year in a row, Milwaukee has beaten its own homicide record. It is believed…… Read More
Zoe Garnett, Kalista Roling, Libby Stechmesser, and Kira Straub, “Interrupting the Carceral System- A Pedagogical Framework for Trauma-Informed Movement” Mentor: Maria Gillespie, Dance Oral Presentation Block 1 Intrinsic to the prison industrial complex, recidivism is a product of underfunded juvenile…… Read More
Laura Bogyay, Jack Lehtinen, and Elizabeth Lappano, “Mother Computer: Thinking in Natural and Artificial Intelligences” Mentor: Nathaniel Stern, Art & Design Poster #135 This presentation is an ensemble of the past year’s work that the team has created and the…… Read More
Madeline Cawkins, “Paleosolotype: Imaging Soil through Chromatography” Mentor: Joseph Mougel, Art & Design Poster #131 Salt printing is a historical photographic process in which paper is soaked in a salt solution, then sensitized with silver nitrate, dried, and exposed to…… Read More
Pete Erdmann, “Water Lens Photography” Mentor: Joseph Mougel, Art & Design Poster #54 Traditionally, cameras employ lenses formed from glass, but glass is not unique in this regard. A hollow lens filled with water will function in much the same…… Read More