Schedule A

Ninja Monkey (Elizabeth Alavi, et al.)
Devil's Playground
Digital Video, about 5 min., color.
"Devil's Playground" took the aesthetic skills of several students, under pressure of making a 5 minute movie in 24 hours, and brought them together to create an interesting digital video. It represents a
comical view of the "Devil's Playground" a playground that is run by a
trickster and is quite messed up. Several characters sell their soul
to the Devil for 25 cents, each of them paying the price. A young guy
wants to be in love - so he gets to be in love, just with an older
woman. Another guy wants to sing well - so he gets to sing well but
has a girl's voice. An older woman wants to be young and be like her
daughter - so she gets wear the prom dress and act young with young guy but still is older. And then there is the painter.

Elizabeth Coker
The Blank Page
Theatre
This one act dark comedy focuses on a young woman, Tara, who is stuck in a memory-feedback loop in which she continually remembers the traumatic day her younger brother ran away from home. As she tries to "control" the memories, she is harassed by the character Beckett, who takes on several guises and mocks her attempts to recreate the past. Her parents, a type-A doctor and an aging hippie, serve as comic foils to one another, and act as "puppets" whom Tara initially controls as she revises and recreates the day of her brother's departure. The play breaks theatrical conventions by employing fast-forward and rewind action, abstract staging, and even a brief dance number, bringing the chaos to its inevitable fevered pitch.

Digital Simian (Deter Brown et. al.)
Dumb Larry
DV video
The award-winning five-minute short film from the 2004 24 Video Hour Race, "Dumb Ass Larry" is the story of three boys, one haunted house, and a million dollars of easy money. "Dumb Ass Larry" won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the Futurevision category of this year's competition, sponsored by the Dallas Video Association.

Monica Evans, Anthony Tyler et. al.
A Teacup Full of Sand
Interactive digital narrative
This multi-media interactive presentation is a modern retelling of the
myth of Theseus and the Labyrinth, from the perspective of a woman with the sea stuck in her head. Players must unravel the story themselves by traveling through the maze of the Minotaur and finding out what really happened to the sea's favorite hero. "A Teacup Full of Sand" includes flash animation, video paintings, photography, and 3-D computer animation.

Schedule b

Patrick Murphy
Untitled
Sound Recordings
During the summer and fall of 2003 Patrick Murphy carried a minidisk
recorder and tiny binaural microphones with him on all of his daily
tasks. The result was more than 10 hours of recordings that captured
everything from a trip to the mailbox to morning traffic on LBJ.
Listening back to his recordings, Patrick was surprised at the hypnotic and surreal qualities of the rather mundane sounds he had captured. Setting out to prove the adage that music is constant while only listening is intermittent, Patrick fed portions of the field recordings into a computer and proceeded to build musical compositions around the ambient improvisations captured on minidisk. The resulting work sets up a collision between the artificiality of digital synthesis and the concrete sounds of everyday life.

Nicholas P. Ippoliti
Harbor of Philadelphia
Genre: Music Video
When it comes down to it, when I need to identify myself - my racial
identity - I don't know how to respond. I am white. I am American. I am
Northern American. I am a United States citizen. I am Irish. I am Scottish. I am Italian. I am my father and mother's heritage. I am two
families, and their two families. If I am the last to contain this unique mixture of identity and bear no children, then, with me this race dies. The music video, Harbor of Philadelphia, reflects my researching of cultural and historical perspectives on the immigrations that led to my parents meeting. I began to develop a sense of gratitude toward the chance of my being. If Fascism did not rule in Italy, and Ireland's farms' produced fields of food, I would not exist. How can I not appreciate the immigrants of our modern society? Anti-immigration propaganda still exists. Just as my great grandparents were pre-labeled "paupers and criminals", middle easterners are now carrying the brunt of "racist propaganda", all in order to keep our great society as pure as possible. "Harbor of Philadelphia" represents the beauty resulting from non-pure chance with racial identity.

Kelly Brown
Local Honey
Musical Performance
Former lead vocalist for franklySCARLET, Kelly Brown launches her first solo effort with Local Honey. A live musical performance, Local Honey plays out more like a postmodern variety show - variety meaning multi-media and multi-genre. Frustrated with the music industry and corporate radio domination, Ms. Brown draws upon inspiration from the trials of life in an unsigned band. Not to be placed neatly in a category, she defines her own - claiming eclectic freedom of expression among a culture that is force-fed pop pabulum. Ms. Brown is working on her MFA in Art and Technology and holds a BFA from UT Austin.

Kyle Kondas
Jabari: The Conspiracy Theory
DV Video
Jabari: The Conspiracy Theory is a humorous but sweet piece honoring the memory of Jabari, the 11 year old gorilla that lost his life this past march after escaping the confinements of his holdings at the Dallas. It follows a long lost gorilla friend of Jabari's who is wants
to find out the truth behind his death. He truly believes that Jabari
didn't just mysteriously get out of his exhibit and then lead to his
death buy Dallas Police officers. He just knows that there is much
more to it. That Jabari was mixed up with something really bad, that
he just couldn't escape. He is out to unravel the truth behind this
horrible incident.

Rebecca McDonald
The Miss Catherine Project
Theatre
The Miss Catherine Project is a potpourri scene journey into the absurd, the tragic, and the joyful events in humanity, simply by using
six and only six lines of dialogue. The "Miss Catherine Project" will
take viewers into the regions of the human mind and most certainly
human emotions while proving "it's not what you say, but how you say
it". It will put language to the test and display that life is no where near "words, words, words". Directed by Rebecca McDonald. Viewer
discretion is advised.

Margaret Athene Chaplin
Eclipsing Bodies in the Melting Pot & Over Loudspeaker
Theatre
"Eclipsing Bodies in the Melting Pot" is a multimedia performance piece that examines American identity as a product of a media/government controlled conveyor system. Horatio Alger is dead. Grounded in a mutated American dream, the visions of the political machine have supplanted the "strive and succeed" spirit. Written by Margaret Athene Chaplin, "Eclipsing Bodies" is structured as a collage of images and words. The project considers the commodification of human identity and feeling within a culture that displays an increasing dependency upon materiality, human degradation and subsequent constructions of superiority. "Over Loudspeaker" features the ramblings of an unstable bus driver
descending into Hell. Written and performed by Margaret Athene Chaplin, the piece explores a fall from humanity, along with themes of guilt and social consciousness.

Lobby presentations

Jessica Fuentes
Venerable Harmony
DV video
This DV video presentation is a collaboration between my captured
images of streetlights and the music of Cameron Nelson. Venerable
Harmony is about finding a spiritual balance, beyond the secular realm, within yourself through repetition.

Elizabeth Alavi
Digital Vision
Video Projections, color
"Digital Vision" utilizes a video medium to create video paintings in an aesthetic space. It parallels video and painting, lifting the paint
off of the canvas and expanding the notion of taking the painting off
the canvas to create "video paintings". The motion of the camera is as to the stroke of a paint brush, each creating movement, each seen by the viewer's eyes. To bring the possibilities that the viewer will see
differently through the video painting and accepted the change, or be
open to the possibility of experiencing and seeing in an aesthetic
space that is changing.

Kathryn Klaene
Pressure Puzzle
Interactive Flash animation
This piece addresses issues with labeling. There are various ways we label human beings. From hospital bracelets to toe tags, it is
impossible to escape labeling. There are other types of labels -
stereotypes we place on people that supposedly define their
personality. Labels are used to catalog and categorize us, in an effort
to destroy individuality. The effect of all labels can produce anxiety,
self-consciousness, and unbelievable pressure of not living up to the
"label" of what other people think you should be.

Kathryn Klaene
Poetry
Interactive Flash animation
This piece was inspired by magnetic poetry. In this case, a poem
already exists and the user must use the same words from the poem to compose their own; this is done by dragging each word and placing it where the user chooses. Additional payoff occurs when the user releases certain words with images attached. These images are colored textures and are actually movies that change opacity. The layering of images creates various pieces of art that are entirely dependent on if and when the user happens to choose a certain word.

Kathryn Klaene
Size Small
Computer animation
As my first short animation, I chose to create a simple world with a
simple character, but tried to bring the character to life through
animation of facial expressions, physical reactions, etc. The original
storyboard for this piece arose from a combination of Pandora's box and Russian nesting dolls.

Gail Leija
Grid One
Interactive Digital photos on grid
Grid One explores fragmentation of the picture plane, along the
vertical and horizontal axes, as well as "through" the screen into layers beneath the implied pictorial surface. The interaction initially appears to the user as a task to be accomplished - one with an eventual outcome, or resolution- characterized by continuous attempts to find the underlying order. Grid One gradually reveals
itself as a non-linear activity that simply builds and dismantles visual relationships. By the time users discover this, they have already begun to give themselves permission to create compositions purely to satisfy themselves, based on emerging patterns and individual preferences.