Independent Project – Page 2

Music Streaming & Monopolizing “Taste”

by Kamau Littletree-HolstonPosted on October 22, 2019October 31, 2019CriticismIndependent Project

How does the convenience of music streaming inform our respective music tastes? And why is this alarming for both artists and fans? A meditation on how streaming influences our tastes in music, featuring songs by Prince, Ryo Kawasaki, Erykah Badu & Portishead.

The Holy Anorexic

by Caroline ReaganPosted on October 22, 2019February 24, 2020CriticismIndependent Project

Simone Weil, Between Materialism and Mysticism

PHOTOGRAPHY AS A WAY

by Daniels MekssPosted on September 19, 2019December 19, 2019CriticismIndependent Project

Sergio Larrain's Valparaíso shows that photography can be a way of connecting with the world.

PLASTIC(INE) DESIRES

by Kai SundermannPosted on May 17, 2019July 10, 2019CriticismFeaturedIndependent Project

PLASTICS + TECHNO-UTOPIAN ALLURES // PLASTICS + OILY TEMPORALITIES // PLASTICS + ZOMBIFICATION OF FOSSILISED SUNSHINE // PLASTICS + TOXICITY // PLASTICS + QUEER FUTURITY

A HUMAN MUTATION

by Xixi JiangPosted on May 13, 2019June 7, 2019FeaturedFictionIndependent ProjectPortfolio

A modern-day sequel to Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

ON THE GET FREE BOOK CLUB

by Donna GaryPosted on May 12, 2019Independent ProjectInterviewSenior Project and Colloquium

The book talk series seeking to honor and celebrate works by queer and disabled creators in the same academic spaces they were most likely to be pushed out of.

VIRIDESCENCE

by Jenzia BurgosPosted on May 7, 2019May 14, 2019Creative Non-FictionFeaturedIndependent Project

A reverie in vert.

EX LIBRIS, TWITTER

by Jenzia BurgosPosted on March 14, 2019April 16, 2019Creative Non-FictionIndependent Project

Twitter is the public’s preferred periodical of late. Yes, periodical—if Tom Wolfe championed a New Journalism of the ‘60s, then Twitter is our Newest Journalism.

PUBLIC DEFENSE AND REBELLIOUS LAWYERING

by Judy LuoPosted on March 6, 2019April 5, 2019Independent ProjectResearch

Can meaningful change be effected from inside the system? How can public defenders break free of becoming mindless cogs?

PAUL SCHRADER’S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC

by Hannah SeidlitzPosted on March 5, 2019March 28, 2019Creative Non-FictionCriticismIndependent Project

How First Reformed fights climate change by paying homage to Andrei Tarkovsky and Hieronymus Bosch

Jerry Gray aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey as shown in The Star Ledger in 1947, side by side with Jerry Gray aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey on his 80th birthday in 2007.

JERRY GRAY’S STORY

by Sarah May SmithPosted on December 11, 2018February 20, 2019Creative Non-FictionIndependent Project

"When my grandfather died in 2011, my mom printed out a copy of his unfinished autobiography and it sat next to our printer for months." A digital translation of my grandfather's autobiography and an exploration of how to connect with the past.

JERRY GRAY’S STORY, PART ONE

by Sarah May SmithPosted on December 11, 2018January 31, 2019Creative Non-FictionIndependent ProjectPortfolio

"Growing up in Newark in the thirties was a lot different than living in the city today."

JERRY GRAY’S STORY, PART TWO

by Sarah May SmithPosted on December 11, 2018December 11, 2018Creative Non-FictionIndependent ProjectPortfolio

"Everyone talks about the rain in the Puget Sound area in the Winter, but I don’t remember that many rainy days. Maybe when you are young and having a good time the weather doesn’t matter."

FASHION IS IN THE SKY

by Erin CunninghamPosted on December 11, 2018February 20, 2019Independent ProjectPortfolioResearch

"The purpose of this timeline is to demonstrate this communication between fashion’s function and its aesthetic, and to allow visual interaction with how trends in the past century have developed and transcended societal boundaries."

IN FULLER COLOR AND MOVEMENT

by Donna GaryPosted on October 23, 2018December 6, 2018Creative Non-FictionCriticismIndependent Project

"Watching the latest Beyonce music video, "Mine," directed by Pierre Debusscherre I thought, we do strange things to tell the story of our emotions with our bodies."

Confluence

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