March 2022 – Confluence

Introduction to a 4th wAVe showcase

by Rococo June, ARRT, and PLESKPosted on March 31, 2022March 30, 2022

In January 2022, The 4th wAVe Digital Arts Intensive brought together Gallatin students and alumni musicians and video artists. Three ensembles embarked on a unique and collective experiment to explore, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the creative process. Together, they collaborated across time zones to develop an original audiovisual work.

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ULTIMATUM

by ARRTPosted on March 31, 2022March 30, 2022

Noah Kaplan, Roza Chervinsky, Ryan Gross, Tanya Gupta, Alexandra Skora offer musical and visual commentary on human disruption of nature.

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by Rococo JunePosted on March 31, 2022March 30, 2022

Rosie Kaplan, Connie Li, Rob Walker, Conny Zhao, and Jun Zhao beckon you to enter an inner realm which houses the digital and analog, the mundane and strange.

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Anthropo Scene

by PLESKPosted on March 31, 2022March 30, 2022

Kwami Coleman, Pilar Cerón, Sarah Galvin, Evelyn Guirguis, and Leo Yablans explore the variety of intense emotions we human beings experience as a result of existing in a world in which we are dominant.

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Make Way for Midge Maisel

by Sasha R. CohenPosted on March 30, 2022August 23, 2023

Midge Maisel's strong-headed, Jewish-mother persona resembles your bubbe who nags you to nosh on a third helping of kugel and gefilte fish. However, she is to be reckoned with as she emerges as a comic who is not afraid to hold her middle finger up to the patriarchy.

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Framing the Other

by Suhyla BehiryPosted on March 29, 2022

Read with Butler in mind, Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians" portrays the ways an empire manufactures reality, justifying its attack on a broad, different “other” whose lives are “ungrievable” and exist only to further the narrative that the state has constructed of itself.

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Volcano Quilting

by Cheyenne BryantPosted on March 25, 2022March 24, 2022

I had never thought of a slave witnessing a volcano before; that specific scenario was not conceivable in my reality. As someone who had always longed to connect with the ghosts of my shared diasporic past, I had to know: How did slaves react to a volcano? My project was an attempt to communicate with history and, hopefully, sew together any holes left by neglect.

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The Sorts

by Jessica McDanielsPosted on March 24, 2022March 23, 2022

The clutter that lies within us is whisked up by some ominous force.

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A Perspective on TikTok’s Mental Health Epidemic

by Sammy TavassoliPosted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

A case for why the mental health gurus on TikTok may be doing their adolescent viewers more harm than good, as well as why these adolescents are drawn to it anyway

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Experimental Composition: Stravinsky and Stein

by Emma WaddellPosted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

"Rite of Spring" and "Tender Buttons" both adhere to a strict sense of organization and repetition in order to convey a move away from artistic norms of figurative expression toward more literal representation.

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Mental Health and the Metropolis

by Ben CrestoPosted on March 22, 2022March 23, 2022

The city is distracting; if you make poor enough decisions and don’t think too hard about why you’re starting to get death premonitions, the monotony of it all can feel like a footnote.

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In Defense of the Unusual Education

by Armaan AhmedPosted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

From the outside looking in, many see Gallatin as a sort of bubble, an idealistic utopia without the consequences of the “real world.” However Gallatin has practical utility, and in fact, traditional education has a lot to learn from it.

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