New Music Modalities
By: Adham Khalifa ’23
Faculty Adviser: Ozgur Izmirli
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Student-faculty research is an integral part of Connecticut College.
Research experience prepares you for graduate programs and careers, and sets you apart from the competition. You have opportunities to conduct research with faculty during the academic year and for in-depth research experiences during summer break. Fellowships and grants are often available to help with expenses.
What kinds of research might you do as a student here? Here are just a few of many examples:
New Music Modalities
By: Adham Khalifa ’23
Faculty Adviser: Ozgur Izmirli
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Haven Space
By: Aria Mendhekar ’23
Faculty Adviser: Shawn Hove
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Building Together
By: Brynn Bernstein ’23
Faculty Adviser: Andrea Wollensak
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Space, the Mirror
By: Lana Tilke ’23
Faculty Adviser: Andrea Wollensak
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
The Infinite Cracked Hourglass: a Dance of Retrospection
By: Moqu Alqudah ’23
Faculty Adviser: Rachel Boggia
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Visualizing Vaccinations
By: Rachel Park ’23
Faculty Adviser: Nadav Assor & Sardha Suriyapperuma
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Performance from the Heart
By: Ricardo Gonzalez ’23
Faculty Adviser: Andrew Greenwald
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
overWELLmed
By: Theodora Moldovan ’23
Faculty Adviser: James Lee
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Listening to a Changing World
By: Will Ferguson ’23
Faculty Adviser: Andrew Greenwald
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Comfort in Chaos: A VR experience about togetherness
By: Campbell Coughlin ‘22
Faculty Adviser: James Lee
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Animated Appreciation: AR portraiture
By: Ellie Ebby ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Nadav Assor
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Dreamscapes: An immersive audiovisual VR experience on sound and the future of simulation
By: Hatim Siddique ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Nadav Assor
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
unblocked: An interactive game and installation about connection
By: Madison Ford ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Nadav Assor
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
emPOWER through Animation: An animated interview
By: Bri Goolsby ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Nadav Assor
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Feel The Beat: Music from biofeedback
By: Adam Khan ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Andrew Greenwald
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Learning to Sing: An augmented memoir
By: Alexis Lynch ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Nadav Assor
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Window(s): A video-poetry performance on personal history and internal state
By: Alcy Hart ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Karen Gonzalez Rice
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
UNNatural Bodies: Analogue and digital sculptures
By: Jake Leone ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Denise Pelletier
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
Feed: An app for connecting with recipes
By: Ezra Norris ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Andrea Wollensak
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
No Blank Canvas: A game about creativity
By: Julia Rossiter ‘22
Faculty Adviser: Ozgur Izmirli
(Creative work)
(Senior capstone)
By: Anna Baronsky ‘21
Advising Faculty: Andrew Greenwald
Majors: Art
Internship: Green River Stone Company, Fly Creek, NY, and World Back to Work, Los Angeles, CA
The summer of 2020 was filled with historic moments of COVID-19 lockdowns, BLMprotests, rampant wildfires, and many others. Through academic projects and personal projects I sought to archive and document the cultural reset and shift we all experienced in some capacity. I noticed that while some people organized, protesting systemic racial injustice in person, others educated themselves through shared online resources and various literature. Many people found ways to donate to bail funds, local activist organizations, and GoFundMe’s and devoted time completing small actionable tasks, such as calling state representatives, composing emails, or signing petitions, in the hopes of creating a safer, more equal and just society.
I see my engagement in petition signing as “slacktivism”—the act of supporting a cause through social media or online petitions that involves little commitment—and while acknowledging the minuscule impact my signature has on Change.org, I still feel compelled to add my name to worthy causes. Over the summer I witnessed how the “Justice forBreonna Taylor” petition had circulated social media and amassed nearly 12 million signatures, and many more now know of her story, who she was, and how there have been no murder charges for the officers responsible for her killing.
Even though singing a petition is considered “slacktivism,” I believe there is value in seeing a tangible number of people who have decided to support specific causes and movements as data. My speculative design aims to convey the human connection present in data gathered from Change.org. The speculative design is a tool that allows users of petition websites to visualize the total signatures as representations of people who are all trying to communicate their support for the petition. Through the use of Maya animations, 3Dmodeling, and audio, the tool aims to bridge slacktivism—as a hollow but genuine act—and human connection to a larger movement. In creating this tool, I hope to convey a quantum of energy, rather than a static webpage, that divulges information about individuals supporting a cause, leading someone to add their signature to a petition and effect change.
Related Fields: Ammerman Center