Media Gallery

Graduate Collaboration Grant Media

2021–22

Path to the Feast
Iona Liu (MFA candidate, Department of Visual Arts) and Jacky Dai (MA student, Department of Computer Science).

Imperial Nation
Firat Ciftci (MA candidate, Middle Eastern Studies) and Ceyhun Firat (MFA candidate, Department of Visual Arts)

Birthing a New Vision: Artist as Ethnographer and Applied Anthropology as Creative Practice
Kyrin Hobson (MFA Candidate, Department of Visual Art) and Tanzima Chowdhury (MA student, Computational Social Science)

The Egg
Abby Poteshman (PhD student, Computational and Applied Mathematics) and Miles MacClure (MFA candidate, Department of Visual Arts)

Life, quantized…
Soumik Ghosh (PhD student, Department of Computer Science) and Tina Wang (MFA candidate, Department of Visual Arts)

2020–21

Setna
Fan Ge (MFA 2020) and Theresa Tiliakos (PhD student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
In 2020, ASCI created a pilot Collaboration Grant program on a slightly different schedule from the standard ASCI Collaboration Grant. This allowed UChicago Department of Visual Arts graduate students and their collaborators to begin their projects in the Winter quarter and work through the summer.


Dante in the Lab
Beatrice Fazio (PhD candidate, RLL, Italian Studies) and Tanvi Gandhi (PhD candidate, Physics)

Robot Mediation of Performer-Spectator Dynamics 
Baldwin Giang (PhD student, Music) and Valerie Zhao (PhD student, Computer Science)

Subjective Realities
Jen Ding (PhD 2021, Neurobiology) and Anton Auth (MFA 2021, Visual Arts)

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill
Marissa Fenley (PhD candidate, English & TAPS) and Blair Bainbridge (PhD candidate, Anthropology & Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science)


2018–19

Biophilia
Alan Perry (MFA Candidate, Art and Technology Studies, SAIC) and Rossy Natale (PhD student, Integrative Biology, UChicago)

Coalesce: The Space inside Repetition
Predrag Popovic (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Rosemary Hall (MFA candidate, Printmedia, SAIC)

Dripping, Creaking, Flowing: Narratives of Hydrological Change in Antarctica
Grant Macdonald (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Katie Wood (MFA candidate, Sound, SAIC)

The Exotic is Never Home
Natalia Piland (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) and Jacobo Zambrano (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)

Under One Roof
Niko Shahbazian (MA Candidate, Middle Eastern Studies, UChicago) and Aram Atamian (MFA Candidate, Performance, SAIC)


2017–18

Elaborating Waste
Hannah Burnett (PhD student, Anthropology) and Allison Turner (PhD candidate, English)

Invisible/Invincible: The Bacteria Survival Guide
Joo Young Lee (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC), Mirae Lee (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago), and Maggie Zhang (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago)

Looking at the Speculum
Emma Gilheany (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago) and Efrat Hakimi (MFA candidate, Painting and Drawing, SAIC)

A Choreographic Score to Human Particle Detection
Anne-Sophie Reichert (PhD candidate, Anthropology) and Evan Angelico (PhD candidate, Physics)

Power Structures: Connotations of the Facade in State Architecture
Ayesha Singh (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Elizabeth “Jordie” Davies (PhD student, Political Science, UChicago)

Social Movement and Media Narrative: Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis of Socio-political News Coverage
Kushal K. Dey (PhD candidate, Statistics), Lauren M. Jackson (PhD candidate, English), and Lei Sun (PhD candidate, Statistics)


2016–17

Dissecting Enchantment: Between Gods and Ghosts
Hilary Leathem (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Adrienne Elyse Meyers (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago), and Agnes Mondragón (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago)

The View from Nowhere: Suprahuman Vision through Satellite Imagery and Deep Neural Networks
Will Wiebe (MFA candidate, Photography, SAIC) and John Santerre (PhD candidate, Computer Science, UChicago)

Imagining with Runoff
Jelani Hannah (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago) and Zoe Greenham (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)

Randomness and Mind Games
Xinyi Zhu (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media and Animation, SAIC) and Kieran Murphy (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago)

Transformative Poetry: Applications in Alzheimer’s Disease
Nigel O’Hearn (MA student, Humanities, UChicago) and Tiara Starks (MA student, Psychology, UChicago)

Unfolding Dimensionality
Yukun Zeng (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Yu Ji (PhD student, Psychology, UChicago), and Siamack Hajimohammad (MA student, Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC)

net(work)
Pierce Gradone (PhD candidate, Music Composition, UChicago), and Dana Simmons (PhD candidate, Neurobiology, UChicago)


2015–16

Woven Relations
Dylan Fish (MFA candidate, Fiber & Material Studies, SAIC) and Daniel Johnstone (PhD candidate, Mathematics, UChicago)

Scaling Quelccaya
Meredith Leich (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, SAIC) and Andrew Malone (PhD candidate, Glaciology and Climatology, UChicago)

Magnifying Identity
Jan Brugger (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago) and K. Supriya (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago)

Molecular Movement
Andrew Bearnot (MFA candidate, Visual Art, UChicago), Ken Ellis-Guardiola (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago) and Jeff Montgomery (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago)

Filament Findings
Keeley Haftner (MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC) and Will McFadden (PhD candidate, Biophysics, UChicago)

Crystals: Order and Disorder
April Martin (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Nicole James (PhD candidate, Chemistry, UChicago)


2014–15

Physical | Digital
Jonathan Rockford, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Martin Scheeler, PhD candidate, Physics (University of Chicago)

Syntax & Songbirds
Geoff Brookshire, PhD candidate, Psychology (University of Chicago); Kyler Brown, PhD candidate, Computational Neuroscience (University of Chicago); and Marcelle Pierson, PhD candidate, Music History and Theory (University of Chicago)

The Fabric of the Universe
Isaac Facio, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Benedikt Diemer, PhD candidate, Astrophysics (University of Chicago)

The Phoenix Index
Carl Fuldner, PhD candidate, Art History (University of Chicago); and Shane DuBay, PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology (University of Chicago)

The Adjustments
Damien Bright, PhD student, Anthropology, (University of Chicago); Cameron Hu, PhD student, Anthropology (University of Chicago); and Tobias Zehntner, MFA candidate, Art and Technology Studies, (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)


2013–14

Fiction Addiction
Bill Hutchison (Department of English) and Anya Bershad (Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience)

Hearts Beating as One: Emotions and Physiology during Artistic Performance
Heather Harden (Department of Psychology), Elizabeth Necka (Department of Psychology), Patrick Fitzgibbon (Department of Music), and Elizabeth Hopkins (Department of Music)

Neurosonics: Rhythmic Stimulation of Epileptic Cell Cultures
Andrew McManus (Department of Music) and Tahra Eissa (Department of Neurobiology)

Breaking Ice
Iddo Aharony (Department of Music), Ivo Peters (Department of Physics), and Qin Xu (Department of Physics)


2012–13

The Chromochord
Francisco Castillo Trigueros (Music) and Josiah Zayner (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

An Artistic Collision
Anthony Adcock (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Samuel Meehan (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)

Wishful Permutation
Jen Smoose (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Scott Waitukaitis (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)

Nostalgia: A Digital History
Rebekah Baglini (PhD Candidate, the Department of Linguistics) and Jonathan Schroeder (PhD Candidate, the Department of English)

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2021–22

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2020–21

Setna
Fan Ge (MFA 2020) and Theresa Tiliakos (PhD student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
In 2020, ASCI created a pilot Collaboration Grant program on a slightly different schedule from the standard ASCI Collaboration Grant. This allowed UChicago Department of Visual Arts graduate students and their collaborators to begin their projects in the Winter quarter and work through the summer.


Dante in the Lab
Beatrice Fazio (PhD candidate, RLL, Italian Studies) and Tanvi Gandhi (PhD candidate, Physics)

Robot Mediation of Performer-Spectator Dynamics 
Baldwin Giang (PhD student, Music) and Valerie Zhao (PhD student, Computer Science)

Subjective Realities
Jen Ding (PhD 2021, Neurobiology) and Anton Auth (MFA 2021, Visual Arts)

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill
Marissa Fenley (PhD candidate, English & TAPS) and Blair Bainbridge (PhD candidate, Anthropology & Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science)


2018–19

Biophilia
Alan Perry (MFA Candidate, Art and Technology Studies, SAIC) and Rossy Natale (PhD student, Integrative Biology, UChicago)

Coalesce: The Space inside Repetition
Predrag Popovic (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Rosemary Hall (MFA candidate, Printmedia, SAIC)

Dripping, Creaking, Flowing: Narratives of Hydrological Change in Antarctica
Grant Macdonald (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Katie Wood (MFA candidate, Sound, SAIC)

The Exotic is Never Home
Natalia Piland (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) and Jacobo Zambrano (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)

Under One Roof
Niko Shahbazian (MA Candidate, Middle Eastern Studies, UChicago) and Aram Atamian (MFA Candidate, Performance, SAIC)


2017–18

Elaborating Waste
Hannah Burnett (PhD student, Anthropology) and Allison Turner (PhD candidate, English)

Invisible/Invincible: The Bacteria Survival Guide
Joo Young Lee (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC), Mirae Lee (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago), and Maggie Zhang (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago)

Looking at the Speculum
Emma Gilheany (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago) and Efrat Hakimi (MFA candidate, Painting and Drawing, SAIC)

A Choreographic Score to Human Particle Detection
Anne-Sophie Reichert (PhD candidate, Anthropology) and Evan Angelico (PhD candidate, Physics)

Power Structures: Connotations of the Facade in State Architecture
Ayesha Singh (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Elizabeth “Jordie” Davies (PhD student, Political Science, UChicago)

Social Movement and Media Narrative: Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis of Socio-political News Coverage
Kushal K. Dey (PhD candidate, Statistics), Lauren M. Jackson (PhD candidate, English), and Lei Sun (PhD candidate, Statistics)


2016–17

Dissecting Enchantment: Between Gods and Ghosts
Hilary Leathem (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Adrienne Elyse Meyers (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago), and Agnes Mondragón (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago)

The View from Nowhere: Suprahuman Vision through Satellite Imagery and Deep Neural Networks
Will Wiebe (MFA candidate, Photography, SAIC) and John Santerre (PhD candidate, Computer Science, UChicago)

Imagining with Runoff
Jelani Hannah (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago) and Zoe Greenham (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)

Randomness and Mind Games
Xinyi Zhu (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media and Animation, SAIC) and Kieran Murphy (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago)

Transformative Poetry: Applications in Alzheimer’s Disease
Nigel O’Hearn (MA student, Humanities, UChicago) and Tiara Starks (MA student, Psychology, UChicago)

Unfolding Dimensionality
Yukun Zeng (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Yu Ji (PhD student, Psychology, UChicago), and Siamack Hajimohammad (MA student, Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC)

net(work)
Pierce Gradone (PhD candidate, Music Composition, UChicago), and Dana Simmons (PhD candidate, Neurobiology, UChicago)


2015–16

Woven Relations
Dylan Fish (MFA candidate, Fiber & Material Studies, SAIC) and Daniel Johnstone (PhD candidate, Mathematics, UChicago)

Scaling Quelccaya
Meredith Leich (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, SAIC) and Andrew Malone (PhD candidate, Glaciology and Climatology, UChicago)

Magnifying Identity
Jan Brugger (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago) and K. Supriya (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago)

Molecular Movement
Andrew Bearnot (MFA candidate, Visual Art, UChicago), Ken Ellis-Guardiola (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago) and Jeff Montgomery (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago)

Filament Findings
Keeley Haftner (MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC) and Will McFadden (PhD candidate, Biophysics, UChicago)

Crystals: Order and Disorder
April Martin (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Nicole James (PhD candidate, Chemistry, UChicago)


2014–15

Physical | Digital
Jonathan Rockford, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Martin Scheeler, PhD candidate, Physics (University of Chicago)

Syntax & Songbirds
Geoff Brookshire, PhD candidate, Psychology (University of Chicago); Kyler Brown, PhD candidate, Computational Neuroscience (University of Chicago); and Marcelle Pierson, PhD candidate, Music History and Theory (University of Chicago)

The Fabric of the Universe
Isaac Facio, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Benedikt Diemer, PhD candidate, Astrophysics (University of Chicago)

The Phoenix Index
Carl Fuldner, PhD candidate, Art History (University of Chicago); and Shane DuBay, PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology (University of Chicago)

The Adjustments
Damien Bright, PhD student, Anthropology, (University of Chicago); Cameron Hu, PhD student, Anthropology (University of Chicago); and Tobias Zehntner, MFA candidate, Art and Technology Studies, (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)


2013–14

Fiction Addiction
Bill Hutchison (Department of English) and Anya Bershad (Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience)

Hearts Beating as One: Emotions and Physiology during Artistic Performance
Heather Harden (Department of Psychology), Elizabeth Necka (Department of Psychology), Patrick Fitzgibbon (Department of Music), and Elizabeth Hopkins (Department of Music)

Neurosonics: Rhythmic Stimulation of Epileptic Cell Cultures
Andrew McManus (Department of Music) and Tahra Eissa (Department of Neurobiology)

Breaking Ice
Iddo Aharony (Department of Music), Ivo Peters (Department of Physics), and Qin Xu (Department of Physics)


2012–13

The Chromochord
Francisco Castillo Trigueros (Music) and Josiah Zayner (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

An Artistic Collision
Anthony Adcock (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Samuel Meehan (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)

Wishful Permutation
Jen Smoose (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Scott Waitukaitis (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)

Nostalgia: A Digital History
Rebekah Baglini (PhD Candidate, the Department of Linguistics) and Jonathan Schroeder (PhD Candidate, the Department of English)