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They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese: A Conversation To Make The Invisible Visible, Satwik Srikrishnan Jan 2017

They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese: A Conversation To Make The Invisible Visible, Satwik Srikrishnan

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Trapped: A Performance Exploration Of The Illusion Of Confinement, Paul R. Presbrey Jan 2017

Trapped: A Performance Exploration Of The Illusion Of Confinement, Paul R. Presbrey

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Sometimes we build our own prisons and those prisons go through a crucial stage at which time, outside forces such as other people can help retrieve you from the depths of your own imprisonment. Unfortunately, these outside forces usually end up acting against you, sending a person deeper and deeper into the trap they laid for themselves. These outside forces or people usually do not know that they are contributing to the building of a person’s prison. These people act in direct response to something or even anonymously through things such as surveys. Most of the time people dance around …


"A Perfect Labyrinth Of Limitations": Confronting The Restrictions Of Societal Roles In James Baldwin's Fiction, Natalie Sophia West Jan 2017

"A Perfect Labyrinth Of Limitations": Confronting The Restrictions Of Societal Roles In James Baldwin's Fiction, Natalie Sophia West

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Narrating Arcosanti: A Utopian Project Considered Through Its Representations, Duncan William Routh Jan 2017

Narrating Arcosanti: A Utopian Project Considered Through Its Representations, Duncan William Routh

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Michael Faraday’S “Lines Of Force” And The Role Of Heuristic Models In Early Electromagnetic Field Theory, Nicolas Sandy Engst Matthews Jan 2017

Michael Faraday’S “Lines Of Force” And The Role Of Heuristic Models In Early Electromagnetic Field Theory, Nicolas Sandy Engst Matthews

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College


The City After: Crises In Contemporary New York Narratives, Rachel Peri Papert Jan 2017

The City After: Crises In Contemporary New York Narratives, Rachel Peri Papert

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The Longevity Of Religious Terrorist Organizations, William John Hughes Jan 2017

The Longevity Of Religious Terrorist Organizations, William John Hughes

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh Jan 2017

Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In my works, I tried very hard to create characters with unusual perspectives. I wanted to write from the point of view of children, while avoiding anything overly precious or intentionally naive. The trauma of aging, and eventually dying, are the themes for these works. I attempted to draw forth unusual and thought-provoking imagery that could successfully draw my reader into a constructed reality and, hopefully, draw them to less common questions we might ask regarding human nature.


Pericles Revived: Proposing Citizen Payments For Social Media Usage, Alexander Jason Breindel Jan 2017

Pericles Revived: Proposing Citizen Payments For Social Media Usage, Alexander Jason Breindel

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


6.000 Fathoms, Artemis Kotioni Jan 2017

6.000 Fathoms, Artemis Kotioni

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Mouse Vs. Machine: The Game, Cafferty Aiko Frattarelli Jan 2017

Mouse Vs. Machine: The Game, Cafferty Aiko Frattarelli

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Many modern video games built by big name companies are coded by a group of people together using, and possibly modifying, an already designed game engine. These games usually have another group of people creating the artwork. In this project, I coded and designed a video game from scratch, as well as created all the artwork used in the game. The player controls a mouse character who fights a variety of monsters. In order to create the complexity of the game, I implement basic neural networks as the enemy artificial intelligence, i.e. the decision making process of the enemy. It …


Spell For The Lost, Branford Hayes Walker Jan 2017

Spell For The Lost, Branford Hayes Walker

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Spell for the Lost is a novella of prose poems, constructed ekphrasticaly from generated symbols, with the intention of linking writing fiction and the process of magic-doing.


A Street Photographer’S Toolbox: Techniques And Technologies In 20th Century American Street Photography, Jacey Cole Mossack Jan 2017

A Street Photographer’S Toolbox: Techniques And Technologies In 20th Century American Street Photography, Jacey Cole Mossack

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Producing Meaningful Work: An In-Depth Study Of Domestic Workers And Stratified Reproduction, Leigh Marie Taylor Jan 2017

Producing Meaningful Work: An In-Depth Study Of Domestic Workers And Stratified Reproduction, Leigh Marie Taylor

Senior Projects Spring 2017

The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of how domestic workers are able to find resistance within their work place. Using eleven in-depth interviews with women working as domestic workers in New York City, this project contributes to the extant literature regarding domestic workers and stratified reproduction. I examine how domestic work is shaped by the intersections of race, class, gender, and citizenship status. These factors contribute to the conception of domestic work as low-skilled labor as well as the denigration and poor treatment of workers on the job. Though workers often have to sustain poor treatment …


Beyond Homographies: Exploration And Analysis Of Image Warping For Projection In A Dome, Kai Joseph Malowany Jan 2017

Beyond Homographies: Exploration And Analysis Of Image Warping For Projection In A Dome, Kai Joseph Malowany

Senior Projects Spring 2017

The goal of this project is to provide multiple approaches for warping a flat image tofit the curvature of a geodesic dome, to be presented as an immersive, Augmented Reality (AR) environment. This project looks to develop an algorithmic method of warping any image to fit perspective distortion for a dome-like surface. Despite fairly common usage in planetarium methods and other such shows, there is very little documented method that would allow for the warping of images to fit a curved projection surface. The methods will be explored include using Processing, OpenCV, and fisheye image filters. In addition to the …


Blasian And Proud: Examining Racialized Experiences Amongst Half Black And Half Japanese Youth In Japan, Helen Itsel Aracena Jan 2017

Blasian And Proud: Examining Racialized Experiences Amongst Half Black And Half Japanese Youth In Japan, Helen Itsel Aracena

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Plus One, Sofia Marta Ortiz Jan 2017

Plus One, Sofia Marta Ortiz

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Why Didn't The Arab Spring Spread To Eritrea? How Mass Suppression And Fear Can Successfully Prevent Dissent, Winta Amanuel Mehari Jan 2017

Why Didn't The Arab Spring Spread To Eritrea? How Mass Suppression And Fear Can Successfully Prevent Dissent, Winta Amanuel Mehari

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Tainted Ideals: The Rise And Fall Of The Tupamaros, Jennifer Ann Dufau Jan 2017

Tainted Ideals: The Rise And Fall Of The Tupamaros, Jennifer Ann Dufau

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Public Discourse And The Securitization Of Conflict, Gilda Raizel Edelman Jan 2017

Public Discourse And The Securitization Of Conflict, Gilda Raizel Edelman

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Debt-Based Justice: Systematizing Human Valuation Through The Lens Of Criminal Justice, Patrick Holmes Jan 2017

Debt-Based Justice: Systematizing Human Valuation Through The Lens Of Criminal Justice, Patrick Holmes

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The State And The People: Human Rights In Russia's Apolitical World, Benjamin Richard Lorber Jan 2017

The State And The People: Human Rights In Russia's Apolitical World, Benjamin Richard Lorber

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Thin Blue Seam, Sebastian Anton-Ojeda Jan 2017

Thin Blue Seam, Sebastian Anton-Ojeda

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This performance began as an exploration of liminal spaces in the context of a post-modern world. The lines between a suburban, consumptive society, fraught with binaries and thresholds while on the fringes of nature, were what interested me the most. However, this line of thought quickly took me to far more ancient places, to a view of nature driven by animism and pervaded by spiritual introspection. In Celtic Ireland, to give an example, every stone and river is witness to a myth. The Celts of the old world as described by anthropologist Marie-Louise Sjoestedt are constantly straddling the line between …


Portraits Of The Most Sane, David Leonard Mamukelashvili Jan 2017

Portraits Of The Most Sane, David Leonard Mamukelashvili

Senior Projects Spring 2017

The project discusses Géricault's Portraits of the Insane and interprets them as his self-reflective works, interpreting the series as the projections of artist's socio-political views.


Catching A Glimpse: A Directorial Investigation & Collaboration On Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space, Jaquan Keiandre Beachem Jan 2017

Catching A Glimpse: A Directorial Investigation & Collaboration On Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space, Jaquan Keiandre Beachem

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Censorship And Creative Freedom In Shostakovich’S Compositional Style: Music As A Tool For The State, Or The Soul?, Matthea Rile-Schmidt Jan 2017

Censorship And Creative Freedom In Shostakovich’S Compositional Style: Music As A Tool For The State, Or The Soul?, Matthea Rile-Schmidt

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In order to truly understand music, you have to understand it’s context. The meaning of a work morphs and changes over time as culture and politics change. To understand what a work meant when it was composed, you have to look at the environment it was composed in. The idea for this program was born from my love of Shostakovich’s viola sonata, who’s haunting melodies and depth captured my heart as soon as I started to play the viola. Although what it means to me has changed over time, the music still haunts me with the same intensity. I began …


Type Z, Zazie Elena Ray-Trapido Jan 2017

Type Z, Zazie Elena Ray-Trapido

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Look At Where You Listen: A Study Of Commercial Music And Mediation, Thomas Walton Moore Jan 2017

Look At Where You Listen: A Study Of Commercial Music And Mediation, Thomas Walton Moore

Senior Projects Spring 2017

A joint senior project submitted to the divisions of arts and social studies. This project aims to reconsider the 'album' as a format of music distribution that has effects on the consumption-of and relationship-with music as commodity. This project consists of writing and recorded-music-making. Please email tom (at) dpimusic (dot) com for a link.


Pop, Lock, And Bach It/ The Places I'Ve Been, Hannah Madelene Richter Livant Jan 2017

Pop, Lock, And Bach It/ The Places I'Ve Been, Hannah Madelene Richter Livant

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


Five Stars: Contemporary Review And Literary Discourse, Maxwell Louis Sims Jan 2017

Five Stars: Contemporary Review And Literary Discourse, Maxwell Louis Sims

Senior Projects Spring 2017

In this project we will look at contemporary review and how it functions as a form of accessible, literary discourse.