Animated short "Mocha Latte" selected for international animation festival

November 3, 2010 by
“Mocha Latte”, a 3-D computer animated short created by six students in the Art – Emerging Media B.F.A. program, has been juried into the 2010 Red Stick International Animation Festival. Joseph Barbour, Christina Fowinkle, Janae’ Fox, Nadia Jarquin, Donald Marks, and Nicole Walsh produced the short in just four months in Scott F. Hall’s spring […]

MFA students display ‘Transformations’ in Gallery 500

October 27, 2010 by
Five MFA art students will be exhibiting their multimedia work at Gallery 500 in UCF’s Center for Emerging Media next month. The new works were created by Heather Comparetto, Corey Robertson, Sherri Nienass, Jeffrey Hoffman and Nanette Cherry — all pursuing MFA degrees in Studio Art & the Computer in downtown Orlando. Read more from […]

Art grads ‘Face Off’ in NYC art exhibit

October 5, 2010 by
UCF alumni Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison face off with more than 100 individual drawings in their “Tall Tales” exhibit, featured at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York City through Nov. 13. Read the complete article from UCF Today.

Student's App Makes Knightcast Mobile

August 30, 2010 by
Knightcast listeners no longer have to sit in front of a computer to listen to UCF’s nonprofit, student-run radio station because, thanks to Michael Seifollahi, there’s an app for that. Seifollahi, who graduated this summer with a bachelor’s degree in digital media, created the free app, which is available for the iPhone and the iPad, […]

Choose Your Own Adventure course to be offered this fall

August 18, 2010 by
In February, the School of Visual Arts and Design received an Undergraduate Education Pilot Project grant from UCF to develop an innovative model for online instruction. The resulting course, entitled Adventures in Emerging Media, is based on the choose your own adventure novels that were popular in the 1970s and 1980s. These stories allowed readers […]

Art in Motion: SunRail-inspired exhibit features UCF installation

August 18, 2010 by
What moves you? That’s the question three UCF graduate students pose in a new interactive art installation to be featured during Orlando’s 3rd Thursday Gallery Hop next week. The installation, dubbed “CONNECTIONS,” is a 10-foot sphere illuminated by projections of images and videos about movement. It’s inspired by recent debates over creating alternative transportation in […]

McDaniel edits special journal issue on video games for good

June 8, 2010 by
Assistant Professor Rudy McDaniel recently guest edited a special double issue of the international journal Cognitive Technology focused on video games and cognition. Specifically, the issue focuses on “games for good,” video games that impact cognition for a particular pro-social purpose. Also guest editing this special issue is former Digital Media faculty member Erik Vick, […]