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Audrey Lendvay and Gamescape Dérives

Hello everyone! My name is Audrey Lendvay, and I am a second year studio art student at Florida State University, and I now have the exciting honor to introduce you all to my upcoming IDEA Grant research for summer 2024. My project takes a particular interest in the ways in which we participate in physicalContinue reading “Audrey Lendvay and Gamescape Dérives”

Kellan Kissinger: Tracing Female Utopianism and Dystopianism from the Medieval to Contemporary Periods

Hello! My name is Kellan Kissinger and I am a second-year majoring in English (Editing, Writing, and Media) and minoring in Philosophy and Law. Although I’m a second-year, I graduate in Fall 2025 and knew coming into FSU that I wanted to experiment with research before I graduated to see if it was something thatContinue reading “Kellan Kissinger: Tracing Female Utopianism and Dystopianism from the Medieval to Contemporary Periods”

Contemplating Decay: Reclaiming the Sacred in the Grotesque

From a young age, I was captivated by death – not in a morbid sense, but as an unanswerable mystery. I couldn’t comprehend how someone could simply vanish, leaving behind only a body. What exactly dissolved in death? What vanished, leaving only silence where there was once the laughter, voice, warmth, and motion of aContinue reading “Contemplating Decay: Reclaiming the Sacred in the Grotesque”

Peter Fasano: Composing with Microtones

Greetings! This summer, I’m going to explore microtonality and extended Just Intonation in multiple ways to expand understanding and accessibility of it to give musicians another level of intention and control in their composing, performance, and producing. To explain how everything works, I need to discuss how sound works. Sounds are typically a chaotic lookingContinue reading “Peter Fasano: Composing with Microtones”

Alex Davidoff: The Intersection of Culture and Play

Play is generally undefined by the ones that study it and the idea of play is guided by the state and attitude of the participant, where they are inspired to take an action. I seek to explore how toys and play spaces affect our ability to connect with culture, creating subtle rituals and attitudes inContinue reading “Alex Davidoff: The Intersection of Culture and Play”

Artful Insights

Art is one of the most powerful conduits for reflection, empathy, and change. My project, which examines an interplay between identity and safety through the everyday contents of women’s handbags, stands at the intersection of art and social consciousness. Throughout my series of paintings, I aim to illuminate broader themes of personal identity and societalContinue reading “Artful Insights”

Material as Essay

As I have continued to create sculptural products that are meant to address philosophical questions, I am seeing how my work may contribute to important contemporary conversations in my own fields and new discourse in other disciplines. The conceptual art movement gained momentum in the 20th century, and the focuses of participating artists can beContinue reading “Material as Essay”

In the proposal for my project, I wrote that I wanted to explore “modes of meaningful participation in overlooked virtual and physical spaces.” For a while, I’ve been grasping for a hybrid creative practice that draws from drastically different spheres of personal experience and fine art. As an artist, I feel equally attracted to GeorgesContinue reading “Looking Under the Wallpaper: Reconciling Painting and Digital Art”