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  • (Via UConn Today) Childhood Dream Becomes Reality for Video Gamer Turned Designer (Via UConn Today) Childhood Dream Becomes Reality for Video Gamer Turned Designer
    July 6, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips ‘My whole life I secretly wanted to make video games but was scared. I didn’t think it was something that I was allowed to do because it seemed too fun’ Josh Hirshfield was that kid in middle school who’d spend all weekend playing video games. “I was playing on […]
    Posted on July 6, 2023
  • (Via UConn Today) Art, DMD Students Look to Formative Years For Inspiration Today (Via UConn Today) Art, DMD Students Look to Formative Years For Inspiration Today
    April 27, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips On-campus exhibitions showcase creativity and talent of graduating students Years beyond their middle and high school careers – in one case by nearly two decades – and they’re still listening to their teachers. Kelsey Tynik ’12 (SFA), ’23 MFA says she often draws on skills gained from her middle […]
    Posted on April 27, 2023
  • Limitless: 2023 UConn Digital Media & Design BFA Senior Exhibition Limitless: 2023 UConn Digital Media & Design BFA Senior Exhibition
    Limitless: 2023 UConn Digital Media & Design B.F.A. Senior Exhibition    The UConn Digital Media & Design (DMD) Department is excited to announce the 2023 DMD BFA Senior Exhibition, Limitless. The in-person exhibition is open from April 1 to April 28, 2023 in the Jorgensen Gallery at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, with […]
    Posted on March 22, 2023
  • DMD BFA Class of ’22: Where Are They Now? DMD BFA Class of ’22: Where Are They Now?
    March 1, 2023 | Jonathan Kopeliovich   In spring 2022, UConn’s department of Digital Media & Design hosted the 2022 BFA Senior Exhibition: Resilience, in the Jorgensen Gallery of the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, which featured the work of 25 senior UConn DMD Bachelor of Fine Arts students from the Storrs and Stamford […]
    Posted on March 1, 2023
  • (Via UConn Today) Laying a New Foundation Before Building Up (Via UConn Today) Laying a New Foundation Before Building Up
    January 23, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips UConn’s first integrative studies student bridges passion for art, engineering in research and life Arpita Kurdekar’s story doesn’t start at the point she came to the United States, or when she got her dream job as an engineer, or when she pivoted to graduate studies at UConn. It doesn’t even begin […]
    Posted on January 23, 2023
  • (Via UConn Today) Creative Partnership Gives a Win to Both DMD and Athletics (Via UConn Today) Creative Partnership Gives a Win to Both DMD and Athletics
    January 3, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips ‘Connecticut is the sports entertainment capital of the world’ While fans of UConn Athletics fill stadiums to watch tackles, dunks, and dangles, they may not realize part of creating a fevered experience relies on those sidelined with a camera in hand to post instantly on social media and record sensational moments. […]
    Posted on January 3, 2023
  • (Via UConn Today) Documenting the American Dream (Via UConn Today) Documenting the American Dream
    December 6, 2022 | Jaclyn Severance Oscar Guerra’s first Frontline documentary was judged the Best News Story in a Newsmagazine at the 2021 Emmy awards   In 2018, searing stories and images captured at the southern border of the U.S. burned into the conscience of an instantly outraged American public, a result of the zero-tolerance […]
    Posted on December 6, 2022
  • (Via UConn Today) UConn Students Ready for Election (Via UConn Today) UConn Students Ready for Election
    November 8, 2022 | Kimberly Phillips Eyes on a critical slate of state, national contests   Jonathan Portanova ’23 (CLAS) voted for the first time in 2014, in the primary race between Connecticut’s Tom Foley and John McKinney for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Seven years later, he put his own name on the ballot as […]
    Posted on November 8, 2022
  • (Via UConn Today) University to Launch UConn+ Streaming Digital Network (Via UConn Today) University to Launch UConn+ Streaming Digital Network
    November 1, 2022 | UConn Athletics A first-of-its-kind in college athletics to combine live and original content, UConn+ will provide fans 24/7 access to featured content, live events and institutional content in collaboration with LEARFIELD Studios and SIDEARM Sports UConn is fully entering the cord-cutting era of live and on-demand digital video. Coming later this […]
    Posted on November 1, 2022
  • (Via UConn Today) CT High Schoolers to Become ‘Eco-Digital’ Storytellers (Via UConn Today) CT High Schoolers to Become ‘Eco-Digital’ Storytellers
    August 10, 2022 | Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research An interdisciplinary group of UConn researchers is leading an effort to empower high school students to become “Eco-Digital” storytellers in their communities. The science behind protecting the environment is only one piece of addressing the climate crisis; people need […]
    Posted on August 10, 2022
  • UConn Hosts Inaugural Frontiers in Playful Learning Conference UConn Hosts Inaugural Frontiers in Playful Learning Conference
    June 22, 2022 | Shawn Kornegay – Neag School of Education |‘After a year of careful planning, the Neag School of Education’s Two Summers Educational Technology program and the UConn School of Fine Art’s Digital Media and Design (DMD) program co-hosted the inaugural Frontiers in Playful Learning conference from June 1 – 3, 2022.’| After a […]
    Posted on June 22, 2022
  • Spring Art Shows Put Graduating Students’ Work on Display
    April 27, 2022 | Kimberly Phillips   From the everyday to the celestial, students find inspiration for art in many sources When Ashante Kindle ’22 MFA was 10 years old she says she wanted to be either a teacher or fashion designer, maybe a dancer or singer. One could argue though, her childhood spent in […]
    Posted on April 27, 2022
  • Resilience: 2022 UConn Digital Media & Design BFA Senior Exhibition Resilience: 2022 UConn Digital Media & Design BFA Senior Exhibition
    Resilience: 2022 UConn Digital Media & Design B.F.A. Senior Exhibition    STORRS, CT – The UConn Digital Media & Design Department is excited to announce the 2022 DMD BFA Senior Exhibition, Resilience. After two years of virtual exhibitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are thrilled to hold an in-person exhibition which is open from […]
    Posted on March 26, 2022
  • (Via UConn Today) Coding, Creating, and Changing the World (Via UConn Today) Coding, Creating, and Changing the World
    March 21, 2022 | Jaclyn Severance Coding, Creating, and Changing the World How the Stamford Startup Studio and the Werth Institute helped one student discover the innovator within   Reaj Uddin ‘23 (SFA) remembers studying for a school competition in the seventh grade to try to win $25. “It was a social studies competition where whoever knows […]
    Posted on March 21, 2022
  • (via UConn Today) App Supporting Archival Research Continues Development with Community Partnerships (via UConn Today) App Supporting Archival Research Continues Development with Community Partnerships
    February 15, 2022 | Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research App Supporting Archival Research Continues Development with Community Partnerships Sourcery aims to provide a one-stop shop for archival document sharing between collecting institutions and researchers. Archivists hold in trust centuries of documents and artifacts that historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and more […]
    Posted on February 22, 2022