Watch Presentation Video Creative Neural Networks: Generating Live Video Game Soundtracks Trained on User Choices Neural networks are incredibly powerful…
Moosa M. Waraich: The Shrine, The City, and the African Patrons
Watch Presentation Video The Shrine, The City, and the African Patrons: The Forgotten Histories and Invisible Realities of the Afro-Pakistanis…
Leo Frank Yablans: The Exile Aesthetic: How Jewish Composers used Music to Challenge the Third Reich
Watch Presentation Video The Exile Aesthetic: How Jewish Composers used Music to Challenge the Third Reich This project examines the…
Troy Gibbs-Brown –Communicating Hopes of Future Predictions
The biggest component of any conducted research is communicating the results of your findings. And while the common outlets come…
Moosa M. Waraich – Concluding Thoughts and The Road Ahead
After weeks of unexpected travel complications and an unprecedented lockdown in the first week of August, I finally managed to…
Laganeh Aisha Fadé: Final Conclusions on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Senegal
After spending two months in Senegal, I have witnessed the growing number of covid cases and the simultaneous stagnance in…
Corinne Butta: A Continuous Project
Over the last weeks, we catalogued the majority of BAS’s collection, with the exception of a number of new acquisitions…
Tristan Donaldson – Overcoming Final Hurdles
I will admit that my project this summer has been harder than expected. But I think that the reason is…
Sophie Spector: Experimental Progress and the Final Stretch
After spending eight weeks in the lab working on my experiments, I am now entering the final stage of my…
Emma Waddell: Final Structure in Unity and Pure Data
In the past month I have added two important new programs to my project. Once the video game had mostly…
Jennifer Qian – Moving Art Installation – The Making of Sage Rocks
As we are approach the conclusion of our summer research I would like to share some documentation of the art…
Haleemat Laguda: A Looking into the Past and Present: The Life of the Talibé Children in Senegal
A few months ago, I sat in front of my computer screen putting into words what I felt compelled to…
Graciela Blandon: Why We Resist
What motivates activists to donate so much time and so many resources to a common cause? Where does the passion…
Aisatou Diallo: Guinean Fulas Migration Motivation
Based on the past month I spent in Guinea, I argue that it is not financial reasons that are pushing…
Leo Yablans: Jewish Composers and the Third Reich, the Home Stretch!
Well, well, here we are at the final blog post. And what a summer it’s been. Of research, I mean….
Yagmur Akyurek: Papers, Palestine
After finishing my literature review, I’ve realized that the focus of my research has shifted a bit. The majority of…
Jesse McLaughlin: A Recognition of Form through a Critical Making Process
I’d like to begin this post by reiterating what exactly my research is. Artistic Collaboration as Multispecies Ecojustice: The American…
Laganeh Fadé: Crowds, Population Size, and the Rise of COVID-19 Cases in Dakar
It’s been almost a month since I’ve first arrived in Dakar for the summer. With plans to originally research risk-informed…
Alex Ates: In Praise of The Writing Spot
Early next week, I’ll be heading to North Carolina to visit three archives on an artifact-finding expedition. With the Delta…
Moosa M. Waraich – The Shrine, The Sheedis, and The City
My trip to Karachi was unfortunately delayed because of what can only be described as a series of unfortunate events….
Emma Waddell: Building the Game / User Interface for the Neural Net
For most of July I have been focusing on completing the mechanics and design of the video game, so that…
Troy Gibbs-Brown: Technological Teachings of Ecology
The middle-of-the-summer push for this independent study has been more of a grind and hunker down than a ‘push,’ seeing…
Sophie Spector: Successes and Challenges in the Lab
Since mid-June, I’ve been advancing my research project within the walls of the Carlton lab located at NYU’s Center for…
Corinne Butta: In the Collection
Over the past several weeks, I have been onsite at BAS and assisting with the cataloging process. The collection, which…
Tristan Donaldson Who to Ask, What to Ask, How to Ask?
Over the past month I have begun the writing of my research paper and have established a more fine-grained scope…
Haleemat Laguda: A Look into the Past and Present: Life of the Talibé in Senegal
My time in Senegal has been a tremendous learning experience for me. To better understand the daily life and conditions…
Claire Dause: Complex Ballot Language
Over the past few weeks, I hit a sort of roadblock with my research. I intended to conduct many small…
Jennifer Qian – Organic and Entanglement
Reflection on research methodology As I continue my summer research journey, I have affirmations in: one, my mentor is correct,…
Yagmur Akyurek: Reindeer, Pushbacks, and the Narrative Tradition of Naming
This past month, I have had to adjust some of my research plans. I was supposed to have conducted the…
Graciela Blandon: A Love Letter to El Paso
This summer, I have been traveling a great deal catching up with family, learning about the world. I am always…
Aisatou Diallo: Guinean Fula’s Migration
After many attempts of trying to get to Senegal, I finally made it this month. I spoke with several Fulas…
Leo Yablans: Theories of/and Tones: Finishing up the Research Component of my Project
I am currently approaching the end of the research phase of my project, which I believe has been quite fruitful….
Jesse McLaughlin: The Reaching
It has been another month of struggling against conservationist organizations in order to reach the American Eels that swim and…
Alex Ates: The Trendy Sandal Time Machine
In my last blog post, I argued that the modern is traditional and the traditional is modern. This argument proposes…
Moosa M. Waraich: The Manghopir Shrine and its Afro-Pakistani patrons
My work this month was dedicated to finalizing both the logistics of my trip to Karachi and drafting the penultimate…
Tristan Donaldson: The China Brain Project – Starting Research and Planning Ahead
My project is still in its rudimentary stages of development. In the last 2 weeks, I have focused primarily on…
Yagmur Akyurek: The Physicality of a Site
My research so far has consisted of rounding up books and scholarly articles for a literature review. I have been…
Haleemat Laguda: A Look into the Present and Future: The Life of the Talibé in Senegal.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve witnessed my research expand, encouraging me to look at my questions and goals more…
Jennifer Qian: Connecting Intent and Environment
My summer research focuses on two key areas: first is investigating the interrelationship of art creation, artists and the environments,…
Laganeh, Fadé: Disaster Risk Management and City Development (Dakar Case Study)
Most disasters are unanticipated– or aren’t soon enough prepared for. With the onset of COVID-19, the pandemic has relayed the…
Claire Dause: Illinois Ballot Design
This summer, I have chosen to focus on electoral ballot design in Illinois. I have always been interesting in elections…
Troy Gibbs-Brown: Forecasting Before it’s Possible
The past few weeks of my independent research have been mostly literature-intensive, reading papers and reports regarding the spatiotemporal distribution…
Aisatou Diallo: Guinean Fula’s Migration Patterns
My summer research project aims to understand the high migration patterns for Fula people in Guinea. In Guinea, Fula people…
Emma Waddell: Using Neural Networks Creatively
My project focuses on using neural networks to create a unique generative soundtrack for a video game, based on each…
Graciela Blandon: Returning Dignity to a Fractured Land: Environmental Justice on the West Texan Border
I live in El Paso, TX, one of the sunniest cities not only in the United States but in the…
Corinne Butta: Artists’ Libraries and the Catalog
My research this summer focuses on the role of the catalog in alternative library spaces. In July, I will join…
Leo Yablans: Exploring the History of Exiled European-Jewish Composers (First Findings)
My summer research project analyzes a number of atonal pieces by European-Jewish modernist composers exiled by the Nazi regime, such…
Jesse McLaughlin: Practical Obstacles to “Artistic Collaboration as Multispecies Engagement”
It is my belief that collaboration cannot be confined to shared physical space between humans, especially as shared space (virtual,…
Sophie Spector: Understanding Gene Expression Mechanisms in the Parasite Trichomonas Vaginalis
Trichomonas vaginalis is not a very well recognized name – yet, this parasite is responsible for the most common non-viral…
Alex Ates: What Does “Avant-Garde” Even Mean? Why the Answer is Important to Understanding America
Featured image: photomural by Bauhaus and Black Mountain College faculty member Xanti Schawinsky in collaboration with Marcel Breuer and Walter…