Projects

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Experiencing Embodied Cultural Practices through Motion Capture and Immersive Media: A Hybrid Research/Practice Collaboration Across Disciplines

This project explores how new recording technologies (immersive video, spatial audio, and motion capture) can be used to document, preserve, and transmit embodied cultural practices of aboriginal communities in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Mona Kasra (Art)
  • Luke Dahl (Music & Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Labor in the Landscape: Designing Responsive Time-Based Practices

Starting with an investigation of the management systems, techniques, and labor practices of four case-study landscapes, my research subverts the single-intervention model of landscape design by revealing each site’s ongoing formation through maintenance.
2019 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Taryn Wiens (Landscape Architecture)
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Making Art in Migration: From the Italian Colonization to the Argentine Tango (1880-1930)

In a reality characterized by massive global movements, it is fundamental to understand the wide range of perspectives involving their different social actors by investigating, for instance, the connections between the socio-political realities of both the mother country and the target one, as they are embodied in literature.
2019 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Nicole Bonino, PhD Candidate (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
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Migration and Ecocriticism in Latin American Literature

The project “Migration and Ecocriticism in Latin American Literature” investigates the ways in which Latin American authors represent the effects of climate changes, the territorial modifications caused by deforestation and abuse of natural materials, and how this determines the spread of migratory movements.
Fall 2019 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Nicole Bonino (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
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Movements and Directions in the Study of Capitalism

Movements and Directions in the Study of Capitalism (MADCAP) is an interdisciplinary working group for the study of capitalism in all its global articulations and variations.
2019 Grant Recipient
Research by:
  • Sarah Milov (History)