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Isolation

by Travis SmilliePosted on September 27, 2021September 27, 2021Arts WorkshopPortfolio

Upon returning to New York at the start of 2021, I witnessed a very different city than I was used to seeing. “Isolation” is a visual representation of the loneliness and the emptiness found on New York City’s streets during the Covid-19 pandemic.

How Computing Became Masculine in the Cold War

by Lauren BalserPosted on September 24, 2021First-Year Research SeminarResearch

Unlike factory or shipyard work, for which there was a masculine precedent prior to the Rosie the Riveter-era of feminism, there was no set computing culture prior to the beginning of the Cold War because the industry did not exist. What changed?

Cold War Counting

by Ella ChapmanPosted on September 23, 2021First-Year Research SeminarResearch

The development of modern data-collection technology enabled scientists, politicians, and historians alike to employ quantitative methods in historical analyses—and allowed them to purposely shape the Cold War narrative.

Taylor Swift and the Too-Big Teenaged Girl

by Katherine LeisterPosted on September 21, 2021September 21, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

Taylor Swift made being an adolescent girl a romantic, beautiful existence, something to be cherished, not run away from.

Grocery Store

by Emily LombergPosted on September 20, 2021September 20, 2021Arts WorkshopVideo

A mediated trip to Whole Foods; a physical stroll through Amazon.

Variations on the Pleasures of the Temporal Perhaps

by Lewis FenderPosted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

Time has a way of vanishing much as desire has a way of changing: almost never in the way expected.

Cycool

by Olivia Kelly and Mina KimPosted on September 16, 2021September 16, 2021Arts WorkshopVideo

Introducing an app designed to combat waste in the fashion industry.

As You Like It and the “Magic Circle”

by Alexander GouldPosted on September 15, 2021CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

Fundamentally, Shakespeare's "As You Like It" is an introduction to the concept of the consumer theater, of this new game space that we consciously create via works of “media."

Our Mediated Lives: Floating Alone in Cyberspace

by Kyle KimPosted on September 13, 2021AudioInterviewSenior Project and Colloquium

How do our phones affect our relationships with one another? How do they affect our sense of empathy? Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT whose research revolves around human-technology interaction, joins Kyle Kim for a discussion.

Starring Balthus as the Cheshire Cat

by XY ZhouPosted on September 10, 2021CriticismFirst-Year Research Seminar

Balthus’s inclusion of cats in his paintings of young girls elevates the aesthetic quality of his portraiture by forcing observers to confront the nature of their gaze.

Urban Eco-Memorial

by Andrew Turner PoeppelPosted on September 9, 2021Arts WorkshopResearch

Ecological art and memorial design in the Anthropocene

Slippers

by Lilly ReinsteinPosted on September 8, 2021September 8, 2021FictionInterdisciplinary Seminar

The boyfriend of the hour was John, and John would help her move. She’d been packing up the bits and pieces of her life for some days now, and her lease was just about expired.

Memory Disruptions

by James HuetPosted on September 7, 2021CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

The Body, the Senses, and the Self in Proust and Eliot

Letter to a Making Critter

by Jesse McLaughlinPosted on September 3, 2021September 7, 2021Independent ProjectResearch

Democratizing Collaboration through the Lens of Donna Haraway’s Multi-Species Engagement