Media Gallery

Collaboration Grant Media

2022–23

An Apology to Kelp
Becs Epstein (MFA candidate, Performance Studies, SAIC) and Max Bogan (PhD student, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, UChicago)

Expressive Transformations
Gordon Fung (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, SAIC) and Max Nikol (Ph.D. student in Anthropology, University of Chicago)

Salmon Fishing in Chicago
Joshua Silver (PhD student, Sociology), Kendra Lee Sanders (PhD student, Cinema and Media Studies), and Avery LaFlamme (PhD student, Cinema and Media Studies)

Space + Art: Cosmic Seismic Chime
Andrea Bryant (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago) and Nimrod Astarhan (MFA candidate, Art and Technology Studies, SAIC)

Time Keeper
George Iskander (PhD student, Physics department, UChicago) and Autumn Ahn (MFA candidate, Performance Studies, SAIC)

Water Cribs: The Science of Care
Reed McConnell (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago) and Lily Scherlis (PhD student, English and Theater and Performance Studies, UChicago)

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Sound Bites and Interviews

December 2017
As part of the University-wide commemoration of the 1942 Chicago Pile-1 experiment, Arts, Science + Culture and the CP-1 Committee commissioned three new pieces of music that took as their inspiration the impact and implications of nuclear power. Alumni Amelia Kaplan and Clifton Callender and current graduate student Kevin Michael Kay had the world-premier performances of their pieces on Saturday, December 2. 2017.

May 2015
We sat down two of our 2014-15 Arts, Science & Culture Graduate Fellows, Mallory James (PhD student, Anthropology) and Daniel Reid (MS candidate, Institute for Molecular Engineering), to interview each other. James is in the initial stages of researching engineering and technologist corporate communities in Australia; Reid is researching the behavior and function of glassy materials in a simulation group at the Institute for Molecular Engineering.

Anya Bershad (PhD, MD candidate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, UChicago) and Bill Hutchison (PhD Candidate, Department of English, UChicago) interview Martin Sheeler (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago). The conversation weaves between Martin's work on knotting and vortexes, his interdisciplinary work with Jonathan Rockford (MFA Fiber & Material Studies, SAIC) as a 2014–15 Arts, Science & Culture Graduate Collaboration Grantee, and the role Magic: The Gathering plays in all of this.

Hosts Anya Bershad (PhD, MD candidate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, UChicago) and Bill Hutchison (PhD Candidate, Department of English, UChicago) interview Mikki Kressbach (PhD Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies, UChicago). Mikki, a 2015-16 Arts, Science & Culture Fellow, discusses her research into the world of medicine and media: the conversation forays into her analysis of microscopic imagery in contemporary film and television; embarks on a discussion of infectious disease as represented in new forms of media; reveals her fascination with surgical museums; and ends with a lively game of "disciplinary free association."

Host Bill Hutchison (PhD Candidate, Department of English, UChicago) conducts a conversation with composer Pierce Gradone (PhD Candidate, Music, UChicago), while host Anya Bershad (PhD, MD candidate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, UChicago) is out of town at a conference. Pierce, a 2015–16 Arts, Science & Culture Fellow, discusses the intradisciplinary distinctions between musicians and composers; his musical family, and their tradition of singing harmonies while driving cross-country; his early introduction to the upright bass and the influence of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets"; and the choreographed interplay of order and open-endedness that characterize his compositions. Listen carefully for the clips of Pierce's music scattered through the interview, and the game of "alternate universe" that wraps up the episode.