Two training manuals for dealing with the uncertainties of space exploration:
1. "Mars 2028 Inquisition Emergency Preparedness Safety Training"
2. "Alien Encounters"
Please explore the Adobe Spark presentation and follow the QR codes with your smartphones to interact with these projects.
Please see Abby Kineston's full portfolio here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ghu4na_id1Px8X0nE05O2j-6aPopdvM_/view?u...
"This Instagram Media Essay was made to add a different spin on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An Amercian Lyric. I wanted to highlight the racism that Desi (South Asian) people encounter regularly as I believe it is not sufficiently covered by popular media. I chose an Instagram narrative to achieve this because "Humans of New York" tells great stories that have you truly empathize with the contributor. I wanted that same empathy to be achieved but for the more specific subset of South-Asian Americans.
"This Instagram Media Essay was a response to Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, which discusses the lived experiences of the body due to notions of gender, race, and culture. Specifically, the Racialsensory Homunculus project aims to take the scientific Somatosensory Homunculus concept and instead present a distorted body according to common racist notions of Eastern Asians.The Instagram formatting illuminates the effectiveness of different, non-traditional storytelling mediums, a key component of the Narrative and Technology course."
"For my media essay, I decided to tackle the issue of anti-Semitism because it is something that relates very close to me. It is a topic that I have struggled to comprehend and has always made me ask a lot of questions. This is why I titled it 'The Jewish Question,' since each individual post contains a question I have about why there is still so much hatred targeted at Jews today. The photo I used in the center is one that I personally took at Yad Vashem, which is a Holocaust remembrance museum in Jerusalem, Israel.
"This project will examine the types and locations of jobs in writing and communications in the video gaming and esports industries. It aims to debunk the myth that all gaming and entertainment jobs require professional hopefuls to move out to the west coast. The project’s final form will be an interactive map, with dots showing where different headquarters are for game development companies, gaming and esports-specific consulting firms, and firms known to have gaming/esports clients.
"All of the students in ‘The City Made Strange’ course make as their final project a multimedia map. The assignment over the term is to create their own interactive map of London. The geographic scope must be London or a portion of London. The thematic choice is their own; however, we ask that they create a theme and multimedia content that speaks specifically to the question of the city made strange or a subset of that topic in London. For this assignment we want them to physically explore this space."
"All of the students in ‘The City Made Strange’ course make as their final project a multimedia map. The assignment over the term is to create their own interactive map of London. The geographic scope must be London or a portion of London. The thematic choice is their own; however, we ask that they create a theme and multimedia content that speaks specifically to the question of the city made strange or a subset of that topic in London. For this assignment we want them to physically explore this space."
On his project, Thomas writes, "The London Underground has existed for centuries but within it exists a history that spans across all timelines. Examine the haunted past, the present appeal, and promising future of the London Underground in these distinct Map Pins."
For this assignment, students were asked to examine how a recent album shows an artist's evolution by writing and recording an album review podcast. They were asked to develop their own unique conversational voice in their writing and to incorporate sound clips from the album to support their ideas.
For this assignment, students were asked to examine how a recent album shows an artist's evolution by writing and recording an album review podcast. They were asked to develop their own unique conversational voice in their writing and to incorporate sound clips from the album to support their ideas.
Please join the Secret Pittsburgh course for their dedicated showcase this Friday, April 19, in the Hillman DSS!
"This StoryMap was generated by Delaney Regan and Bridget Trimble, members of the Secret Pittsburgh class of Fall 2018. It shows the official sites of the Fall semeter (locations visted by the entire class, supported by course readings, local tour guides, etc.), and the individual “MY Secret” sites of each class member (places in the city that mean something particularly special to that student; not visited by the whole class but experienced through individual short ‘guides’ to the space).
Private video can be accessed with the password "1500" here: https://vimeo.com/329882933
Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1guKl54kU2YWceeu6h0lcpexLa9Ttp1M3...
Presentation for Hill District Community Engagement Center Director Kirk Holbrook to share the ways in which he wants to work with fellow Hill District residents.
Students were asked to "arrange layers of sound to convey a sense of place and story" for this assignment. Professor Ben Miller's nomination comments on this project: "This was a really impressive project, easily one of the best in the class. Tyller recruited friends who work at a coffee cart to play versions of themselves, with a script based on the quirky questions they ask each other and the free-ranging speculative conversations that follow.
The task this unit asked students to "arrange layers of sound to convey a sense of place and story." Nomination comments from Professor Ben Miller on "Hello": "A twist on the 'day in the life' genre, in which a woman attempting to go about her day is repeatedly interrupted by phone calls from the same unknown number. I really enjoyed Beth's world-building in short conversations with her dog (Beth plays the main character) and office-mates. An ominous soundtrack builds tension throughout the everydayness, leading up to a fraught ending."
"This is a Twine story created for the class Narrative and Technology taught by Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick. This project was created to challenge the idea of what 'words on a page' can do and to explore the use of textual formatting (such as font, color, orientation, etc.) and interactivity as methods to increase the immersivity of reading a story and engage the reader emotionally. A secondary goal was to make use of formatting elements such font and color to guide the reader’s interpretation of the story.
"Remnants is a project made using the Twine medium as a storytelling tool, which allows for varying degrees of interactivity between the reader and the narrative through multiple coding mechanics. I aimed to implement interactivity only to a certain degree in which the participant would adopt the protagonist role in the form of emotional and mental attachment to present a narrative experience over a playable one."
"Surgeon Simulator was made using the Twine app to tell a story by having the player choose how they want the story to unfold. I tried to tell a nonfiction narrative of a hospital setting where the reader is the physician in charge of the treatment of a patient. I tried to tell an engaging narrative that is true to the medical field, but also does not require much prior knowledge from the player."
From the students of Professor Lou Maraj, "This project considers the life and afterlife of the social media network "Vine" by compiling various student compositions that wrestle with the affordances and constraints of the medium. Students' projects emphasize the remixing of popular culture artifacts in the 6-second Vine format to think through how the medium of Vine worked or didn't work for creative expression, social/political commentary, and nostalgia."
an actor heard from Emily Cooper on Vimeo.
"Inspired by readings about artificial intelligence, the evolution of computers, and how technology has impacted society and communication, this project seeks to answer the following question: How could augmentation, that is integrating computer interfaces into the human experience, limit our freedom to choose in our everyday lives? Often times, people discuss augmentation in terms of the benefits it could provide and what it might add to day-to-day life, but this video shows some of the limitations that might arise in a not-so-hard to imagine future.
"This project was made in memory of Kinsley Kronenwetter. Although she only spent 14 months on earth, she was a world changer and still is continuing to change the world. On the 15th of every month, her family asks people to perform random acts of kindness in her memory to bring light on the anniversary of her death. To learn more about Kinsley and her family, please visit Kindness for Kinsley on Facebook, and remember, in a world where you can be anything, be kind."
Professor Ben Miller writes, "Nicole builds on a core juxtaposition between Beyoncé's "Who Rule the World?" and a series of women pioneers in computer hardware and software, centered on Grace Hopper. The symmetrical framing radiates strength and stability; a bottom white line both adds information about the women and helps to balance the image."
"This website is designed for current and prospective students of Pitt’s Public and Professional Writing program. Its goal is to break down employment opportunities for writers in Pittsburgh, and organize PPW courses based on students’ professional ambitions. Students can navigate the site to explore different writing industries, Pittsburgh-based employers within those industries, and the PPW courses that they should consider as preparation for that career."