Graham Ward and Dr. Eric Samuelsen, Department of Theatre and Media Arts Writing the web series Alabaster Sky was a process of daily adaptation. From viewing every web series and documentary-style movie we could get our hands on, to inventing a method of structuring serial fiction that’s non-linear, this project tested us daily. The success […]
Silet Signals: Non-Verbal Communication Through Digital Media
Sarah Theurer and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Department of Visual Arts Progress of the Project Through video interviews with students across the US as well as in Great Britain, the Silent Signals project intended to create a portrait of the current university generation through documention their non-verbal communication and signals. We set out to do this through […]
The Garifuna: A Nation Within Nations
Benjamin Petersen and Dr. Jared Johnson, Department of Communications The Garifuna are the descendents of West Africans brought to the Americas in the 1600s aboard slave ships. After a shipwreck in the Caribbean, they settled on the island of St. Vincent and mixed with the Carib Indians, creating a unique people and culture that thrived […]
National Identity and Culture: Through Traditional Language and Music in Okinawa, Japan
Ryler Nielsen and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Music Two of the most often used methods that we, as humans, use to identify with each other are language and music. The Omoro Soushi, compiled in the early 1600s, is a compilation of poems and songs in the Okinawan language that were used to create music. […]
Perception of Forgery According to the Role of Art
Courtney McWhorter and Dr. Martha Peacock, Department of Visual Arts Originally, when I set out to begin this project my intent was to show ‘Art Forgery as an Art Form’, as the title of this project was originally called. However, the intent of my research was very broad, as I intended to discuss forgery’s role, […]
The Music Within Urban Noise
Todd Kitchen and Dr. Steven Ricks, School of Music My goal was to expose the musicality inherent in urban environments through a musical composition involving sound recordings made in New York City. Specifically, I used the sophisticated software available to me in the BYU Electronic Music Studio to identify the specific frequencies (pitches) and rhythmic […]
The Provost Elementary Project: Organizing and Administering Art Education in a Local Low-Income Elementary School
Katie Jahner and Professor Daniel Barney, Department of Visual Arts The purpose of this ORCA project was to give students in a local low-income elementary school the opportunity to experience a quality and interdisciplinary art education program for six weeks. Through the McKay School of Education, I was able to organize my elementary school student […]
Provo’s Ghost Town
Bryan Hutchison and Professor Peter Everett, Department of Visual Arts Provo’s Ghost Town project has been a constant developing project over the past year. It began with what I had originally proposed for the ORCA Grant—to do research on houses and to use that information to create a body of artwork dealing with buildings that have […]
Albert: A documentary film
Dustin Hulet and Professor Tom Lefler, Department of Media Arts Two years ago, I came across an essay written by my great-grandfather, Albert Hulet. The short, two-page document, entitled “I Remember,” is a reflective piece written from a vantage point high in the Tetons. In the essay, Albert reflects as an old man, looking down the […]
Modern Cartoons
John Herzog and Professor Kelly Loosli, Department of Visual Arts My grant from the BYU Office of Research & Creative Activities afforded me the opportunity to study and research the limited animation style pioneered by UPA in the 1940s and 1950s, and to use my research to design a UPA-style character. UPA, or United Productions of […]
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