Courses |

[Fall 2005]
DMST3550 Digital Audio Production
DMST4850 Research Methods

[Winter 2006]
DMST4200 Critical Approaches to Digital Media

[Spring 2006]
DMST3900 Digital Cinema Theory and Practice

[also]
DMST3560 Advanced Digital Audio Production
DMST3900 Digital Audio Fundamentals (interterm)

Research Direction |

[2005-2006]
M.A. Project Advisor
Doug Bertram
David Freund
Kent Hogue
Evan Pollock
Tashia Tucker

Independent Study
Molly Fredericks. eMAD MFA candidate. "Ecological Sonic Environments." Spring 2006.
Matt Jenkins. eMAD MFA candidate. "New Applications in Psychogeographical Research." Winter 2006.


[2004-2005]
M.A. Thesis Director
Daemian McGill, "Electronic Phenomenology," Summer 2005.

[2003-2004]
M.A. Thesis Director
Amanda Johnson, "IN(NER-TEXTUAL AN)NOTATION," Summer 2004.
Building upon Nelson's StretchText format and current Blog technology, this thesis allows readers to enter into conversation with one another and the author through inner-textual annotations.

M.A. Thesis Committee Member
Judianne Triglia, "Multimedia Reporting for the Web: Guidelines for Storytelling in a Unique Medium." Spring 2004.
Thesis analyzes current approaches to multimedia in online journalism through the frames of contemporary critical theory of visual and digital communication.

M.A. Project Advisor
Tre Rudig, "stirr." Spring 2004.
Free online forum for creative exchange and collaboration.

Peyton Lindley, "University of Virginia Young Writers Workshop Website: the type.space project." Spring 2004.
Web project for the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop combines elements of marketing, student and alumni management, online publication, and an experimental, collaborative writing space.

Brian Comerford, "Opho | Of Phonautographic Combinatory Responsive Processes." Spring 2004.
Exploratory digital audio piece uses web-based interactivity to drive chance-elements for studio composition. The project updates the landmark proto-hypertext research of Vannevar Bush by pushing it through John Cage’s aleatory works, Burroughs’s literary and tape cut-ups, and Kittler’s psychoanalytic phonography studies to arrive at contemporary hip-hop and techno culture.

Mike Brittain, "Online Marketing: Search Engine Optimization and Alternatives to the Inbox." Spring 2004.
Extreme desktop marketing for a real commercial client, Baldface.net. The project experiments with alternative marketing tools, such as real-time desktop data-pushing, and search engine promotion efforts.

Eric Gangloff, "An Echo for the New Millenium." Fall 2003.
Installation examines environment as simultaneously local, technologically-augmented, and distributed. Audio elements ranging from live field recordings of the installation-space to performance with electric guitar are recorded to, then broadcast back from, remote server locations, using the Internet as a digital audio delay effect. Recalling tape delay works like Alvin Lucier’s “I Am Sitting in a Room” (1970), the piece examines the overlap of intimate local space, global space of the Internet, and the resultant technological palimpsest which is the site for so much postmodern interaction.

Independent Study
Ronnie Cramer,"Live Digital Video and Audio Performance." Winter 2004.

Brian Comerford, "Live Digital Video and Audio Mixing." Winter 2004.

[2002-2003]
M.A. Thesis Committee Member
William Depper, "Poems of Fortune and Mystery." Spring 2003.
Programming-aesthetics come to the fore of this dynamic CD-ROM collection of digital poems.

M.A. Project Advisor
Sonya Unrein, "Where's the Response: An exploration of narrative in the age of multiform potential." Spring 2003.
The author claims that in response to phenomenological narrative gaps, readers of literature and criticism alike respond differently based on formal cues from printed words, web-based hypertexts, and a scroll-mounted graphic design piece.

Tenah Johnson, "Cold Fusion/Database-Driven Dynamic Virtual Gallery and Anthology: Artists for Peace, Justice & Civil Liberties." Fall 2002.
Database-driven design for the post-9/11 web project of Boulder’s impressive arts advocacy journal, TAP (The Arts Paper). The site features international works in multiple media, arranged in categories like Civil Liberties, Ecological Justice, and Iraq.

[2001-2002]
M.A. Thesis Committee
Michael Arnold Mages, M.A. Thesis committee member, "Mutual Assured Deconstruction." Spring 2002.
Digital installation explores relationships between networked communications technology and live performance. New music composition performed by a top-notch ensemble combined with experimental computer-mediated interactions to address concepts of telepresence, democratized concert performances, and the relationship of the body and cultural space.

M.A. Project Advisor
Erin Pheil,"cornu[c]opia." Spring 2002.
Experimental web-based community building, site design, proto-guerilla marketing.

Joseph Labrecque, "Through Darkened Eyes." Spring 2002.
Gothic Flash animations, dark ambient sound design and score, and dreamy digital video developed for CD-ROM.