Robert Polivka, “Abstract 3D Model Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Mandlebulbs” Mentor: Christopher Willey, Art & Design This research project is based on generated images and how they can relate to each other in 3D space. The goal of…… Read More
Zachary Just and Shayla Finley, “Analysis of 1930s Jazz Music for Collaboration with UWM Theatre Department” Mentor: Phillip Sink, Music Our task was to create a playlist of incidental music to coincide with the UWM theatre department’s production of a…… Read More
Ava Hager and Candice Booker, “Bottle Tree” Mentor: Glenn Williams, Art & Design This project is a re-examination of the bottle tree as a reference to African American cultural identity stemming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola…… Read More
Mary Widener, Garrett Kocourek, Hope Glassel, Mich Dillon, Meghan Berger, and Peter Green, “Breath” Mentor: Nathaniel Stern, Art & Design The numbers surrounding pollution and electronic waste, sustainable energy and climate change are so vast that they are difficult to…… Read More
Heavenly Johnson, “Creating an Immersive Sustainable World: Starting with Hemp” Mentor: Christopher Willey, Art & Design Climate change propels my research to visualize and present sustainable industrial use of the plant Hemp and its use as an alternative energy resource……. Read More
Sophia Hermann, “Divergent Fates” Mentor: Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Art & Design Divergent Fates is a continued project that builds on Professor Kaganovich’s long standing research interests in materiality, ecology, and human impact on the environment. The focus of the research is…… Read More
Cassidy Mayhall, “Dramaturgy for the Resistible Rise” Mentors: Alvaro Rios and Ralph Janes, Theatre In the fall of 2020 Peck School of the Arts performed a version of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’. This edition…… Read More
Bryan Stoffel, “Educational Physics Based VR Experience” Mentor: Emily Berens, Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres The objective of this research was to create a Virtual Reality (VR) Learning Experience using Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), intended to teach players physics…… Read More
Anna Emerson, “Ethics and Aesthetics for Virtual Realities” Mentor: Christopher Willey, Art & Design Before 2020, many of us had yet to experience the negative effects of high internet use, extensive screen time, and poor user interface design. But when…… Read More
Katherine Behlke, “Integrating Creativity and Engineering Processes” Mentors: Emily Berens and Christopher Willey, Art & Design Joining technical learning and creativity is something not enough people get to experience. There is so much valuable insight to be gained from merging…… Read More
Zoe Glise, Ashley Garcia, Jessica Lueck, and Lyndsay Sorg, “Milwaukee Through Embodied Research” Mentor: Simone Ferro, Dance Throughout this past year, our team of students has been adapting to a new way of conducting research due to the COVID-19 Pandemic……. Read More
Zoe Glise and Ashley Garcia, “Moving Bo[a]rders: Identity and Social Kinesthetic of Rock-Climbing and Skateboarding Communities” Mentor: Mair Culbreth, Dance Throughout this semester, our team has begun to develop an understanding of race, gender, and sexuality through movement research to…… Read More
Victoria Isaac, Natalie Derr, Ida Lucchesi, Cuauhtli Castro, “Parts of the Whole: The Body Is Home” Mentor: Maria Gillespie, Dance Prior research has examined the effects of punitive sanctions and institutions on individuals’ mental, physical, and emotional autonomy and agency……. Read More
Rachel Malehorn, “Queer Lives: The Art Festival and Cultural Agency” Mentor: Mair Culbreth, Dance Arts festivals serve as catalysts for innovation and community building among practitioners within their disciplines. However, within these normative curatorial spaces, queer artists face challenges and…… Read More
Nkaujoua Xiong, “Racial Roots: Justice for Sex Trafficking Survivors” Mentor: Sean Kafer, Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres This documentary project is based on the inequalities sex trafficking survivors of color encounter when they attempt to reintegrate back into society……. Read More
Paula Lovo, “Storytelling in the Voices of Gun Violence Project” Mentor: Portia Cobb, Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres Through the lens of social awareness, attention is brought to the complex and unheard narratives of the survivors of gun violence…… Read More
Emma Horvath, “Visualizing Growth: The Development of Immersive High-Dimensional Information Coordinate Systems” Mentor: Christopher Willey, Art & Design The purpose of my research is to assist Professor Willey with visualizing researchers’ growth by using researchers’ keywords and a 3D coordinate…… Read More