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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?
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
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
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) Documenting the American Dream: In First-of-its-Kind Project, UConn Professor Directs Film for U.S. Congressional Committee
January 5, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance ‘Creating media that unites, that’s something that I really want to do with my films’ Guerra, with Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes, and the production team for Grit & Grace (Contributed Photo) Today, you can order Alicia Villanueva’s handmade tamales from William Sonoma. If you’re in the San Francisco area, […]Posted on January 5, 2023
(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
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) Let’s Get Digital: Benton Exhibition Showcases Digital Media & Design Faculty’s Artistry
December 5, 2022 | Joseph DeVito From documentary film to motion design boards, exhibition shows off diversity of faculty expertise A bassist appearing to play in a landfill and a breakfast conversation between three Turkish couples are just two of the sights and sounds on display at the 2022 Digital Media & Design (DMD) Faculty […]Posted on December 5, 2022
(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
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
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
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 DisplayApril 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 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
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
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
(Via UConn Today) DMD Professor’s Historically Themed Video Game Receives Industry Accolades
February 3, 2022 | Kimberly Phillips The historically themed video game “Blackhaven” from Digital Media & Design assistan professor James Coltrain has grabbed international praise and industry-wide attention for its narrative structure that centers on the efforts of a fictional plantation-turned-museum that attempts to cover up its past. Three months after its July release, “Blackhaven” was one […]Posted on February 3, 2022
Heejoo Kim’s New Film “Behind The Loom” Released
Congratulations to DMD Motion Design & Animation professor Heejoo Kim, whose new film, Behind the Loom, is hitting the international film festival circuit! Behind the Loom is a short experimental animated documentary about the story of women during World War II. It unpacks the mystery of a family tragedy looking through a miniature handmade loom. […]Posted on October 26, 2021
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