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Junior Portfolio Reviews – Fall 2017

By / September 14, 2017

Fall 2017 junior portfolio reviews will be held October 23 and 24. DMA juniors should fill out this web survey by October 6 and you will be contacted with scheduling information.

All DMA majors are required to undergo a portfolio review at the beginning of their third year and again prior to completing their senior project. Portfolio reviews are a normal part of any arts-based education program. The purpose of a portfolio review is to help you improve your work and realize your creative and professional goals through feedback from your professors.

Your portfolio review will:

  • Help you learn how to discuss your work and understand how it fits into the historical and contemporary media arts landscape
  • Allow you to receive direct feedback from your professors
  • Help you make stronger work and grow as an artist
  • Help guide you towards your creative & professional goals

How It Works
Reviews will last 15 minutes. You will present your work during the first 10 minutes, which will be followed by 5 minutes of questions and discussion. Your presentation must not exceed 10 minutes. After the review you will receive feedback from faculty outlining improvement areas and suggestions for resources, further research, future directions, etc.

You will need to arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled time-slot.

What You Will Do
You will assemble what you consider to be your best work (no more than 10 pieces). The work you choose should represent your skills, growth, and areas of interest as an artist. Then you will prepare a ten-minute presentation in which you discuss your work. Your presentation should address the following points:

  • Give a brief background on your creative interests and practice
  • Describe the kind of work you’re doing
  • Explain the themes, issues, and ideas your work explores and why
  • Explain what and/or who influences or inspires your work
  • What are your greatest strengths and how will you apply them?
  • What are your greatest weaknesses and how will you improve?
  • What do you plan to work on in the future and how you plan to reach new goals?

Displaying Your Work
The work you choose should be displayed at the highest possible quality. For example, if you are displaying digital prints they should be high resolution (not compressed) and, if printed, they should be printed on quality paper. Same goes for video and audio files; video should be displayed in HD and audio files should be presented in a lossless format. You should try to show your work digitally if possible (i.e. via web portfolio, PowerPoint, etc.) but you can bring physical media if that’s what you have.

The reviews will be held in DRH 10. A computer, video projector, and stereo speakers will be provided. There will also be space to display prints and other physical objects. If you need special technology to display your work let DMA faculty know in advance. Multimedia installations and performances should be presented as video documentation.

DMA Senior Show – May 11, 5pm, AND 304/305

By / May 2, 2017

Digital Media Arts is pleased to announce the DMA Senior Show, which will feature creative projects from DMA graduating seniors in a range of digital media, including audio, video, web, graphic design, performance, and installation. Please stop by to see the great work our students have been doing this year! The show will be held on May 11 from 5-7pm in Anderson 304/305.

 

 

Hamline Mural Finalists Announced

By / April 5, 2017

Hamline University and the Midway Public Art Working Group are excited to announce three finalists for the Hamline Mural: Lee Blauersouth, Ilana Budenosky, and Sarah Lentz (read more about the project here). The selection committee will be choosing the final artist this month. You can learn more about each of the finalists below:

Lee Blauersouth

I’m a classically trained artist who’s education focused on traditional (Dutch style) oil portraiture, who later turned to drawing comic books because I love art most when it tells a story. Aided by both my studio art and art history minors from Hamline, I’ve spent my adult life trying to honor both the independent comics I love, as well as the old masters who originally inspired me to start drawing. From 9-5, Monday through Friday I’m a mental health therapist who focuses on addiction and PTSD. Through the connections I’ve made at work, as well as my own experiences I’ve come to value social justice goals, and the way art can break boundaries and heal wounds. I’ve been in love with the midway since my first college tour in 2000 and have lived here nearly my whole adult life. Two years ago my wife and I bought a house here, with the intention to raise a family in this vibrant, diverse, community-oriented neighborhood. 

Ilana Budenosky

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Ilana Budenosky is a visual artist whose interest in the dynamics
between living beings can be seen in her mural in the Janet Wallace
Fine Arts Center at Macalester College. She is graduating in May of
2017 with a B.A. in Studio Art from Macalester College and her work has been shown at the Southern Graphics Council International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia; at the Gorman Rare Art Book Collection at the University of Minnesota; and at Galeria Jesús Gallardo in Guanajuato, Mexico. She has gotten to know the Hamline-Midway neighborhood through years of public transit use and is so excited to be selected as a finalist for Midway Murals 2.0.

Sarah Lentz

Sarah Lentz is a junior at Hamline University, with a Double Major in Painting and Political Science. The Midway has been her home and workplace for the past three years and she also works at Hamline Elementary School. She previously worked as a Community Arts Intern for the Wausau River District, independently facilitating and creating placemaking opportunities to engage the community through art. Among those placemaking projects were a community painted piano that was placed outside for public use and crosswalk murals that she helped design with the Wausau Boy’s and Girl’s Club. She also volunteered at the Midway Murals opening event in 2015. Sarah hopes to continue her placemaking and community building efforts as she moves forward with her career, and she believes that Midway Murals 2.0 would be an incredible opportunity to make a lasting impact on her current home.

DMA Animation Professor Featured At The Trylon

By / February 15, 2017

John Akre Animation

The animation of John Akre, Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Digital Media Arts, will be featured in the Northern Exposure film series at the Trylon Microcinema on Wednesday, February 22 at 7 p.m and 9 pm. Northern Exposure is a series at the Trylon Microcinema in Minneapolis that features the work of a local filmmaker every quarter.

Akre is a prolific creator, teacher, and animation advocate. He founded the annnual MinnAnimate festival. This retrospective, spanning a decade, highlights his collage-like work- both fiction and nonfiction-all of which is visually imaginative and deeply honest.

The screening features more than 20 animated shorts created over ten years.

GET TICKETS WHILE THEY LAST!

Akre will be present for a Q and A after each show.

‘Browser’ Exhibition @Como Planetarium – Nov 17, 5-7pm

By / November 14, 2016

Nov 17, 5-7pm at Como Planetarium.

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Browser is an interactive video installation inspired in part by Eli Pariser’s concept of the ‘filter bubble.’ A filter bubble is created when an algorithm filters a user’s social media content to only include information that reinforces the user’s views, thus limiting their exposure to alternative viewpoints. Facebook newsfeeds, for example, are more like news products, tailored specifically to the user’s browsing history. Browser allows users to break the algorithm to escape the bubble. Or does it?

Browser is a collaborative research project created by DMA major Sam Schild and professor Josh Gumiela.

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