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"MNDWRLD": Biohacking, Transhumanism, and the Pursuit of Uploaded Intelligence
Get PDFThere is a category of people who make technological modifications to their own bodies in the pursuit of improvement or pure curiosity. The first half of this paper explores these people as a precursor to transhumanists, and the eventual goal to upload one's mind to a digital world. The second half of the paper is about a short animation revolving around these concepts, and the potential consequences of uploaded intelligence.Purchase College SUNYNew MediaBachelor of ArtsLambert, Steve M
Image Captor: Interdisciplinary Methods for Recording the Environment
Get PDFThis paper explores the body of work that comprises Benjamin Sherry's senior project, "Image Captor," as well as the processes used and their relevance to the project. The work described in the paper includes rubbings, impressed ceramic tiles, and electron micrographs. The paper intends to use the observational basis shared between fine art and science to contextualize the processes used for these works.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ScienceThackray, Amanda J
Assigned Female
Get PDFAssigned Female is a multidisciplinary project that examines how language has been used to control and diminish individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB), and how reclaiming this narrative can serve as a powerful act of resistance. Drawing from personal experience, academic research, and visual storytelling, the project explores the intersections of gender, power, and memory.
Central themes include the weaponization of language, words like "hysterical" and "bossy," and the societal structures that continue to marginalize AFAB individuals. Through photography, installation, and alternative bookmaking, the work challenges institutional control over bodies and knowledge.
A key component, The Reproductive Garden, is an interactive exhibition reviving historical uses of plants in reproductive health, reconnecting AFAB individuals with knowledge often erased.
At its heart, Assigned Female is about reclaiming space, history, and agency. It invites viewers to reflect on the cyclical nature of gender oppression and the enduring power of collective resistance.Purchase College SUNYPhotographyBachelor of Fine ArtsBriner, Timoth
Escúchame Bien: The Unspoken Touch
Get PDFThis series unfolds like a silent conversation between the body and the self-tender, fragmented, and seeking. The work tracks an emotional landscape where quiet has weight and tenderness becomes a kind of resistance using moving movements, developing light, and a palette that ranges from muted to vibrant.
Each picture stands alone yet speaks to the next, forming a rhythm that reflects the inner pulse of healing – uncertain, nonlinear, and very human. Photographs softly emerge from the wall, leaving shadows that linger like memories, drawing the visitor into an intimate realm of contemplation and presence. The artwork, accompanied by a soundscape that evokes both storm and quiet, prioritizes sensation over explanation, form over proclamation.
What emerges is not a declaration, but a gesture – an invitation to observe what cannot always be described but can nonetheless be experienced.Purchase College SUNYPhotographyBachelor of Fine ArtsBriner, Timoth
The Need for Color Conscious Casting over Color-Blind Casting
No full textRacial and ethnic diversity are a major part of the fabric that is the American identity, but so are white supremacist ideologies. These harmful ideologies perpetuate exclusionary and divisive tactics that are very prominent in our culture, especially in American theatre. But in the past few decades, to combat the lack of representation of people of color, the color blind model of casting rose to prominence, in which casting does not take the race and ethnicity of the actor into account during the casting process. Instead the casting directors will make it a point to call for all people of different races and ethnicities to audition, and they simply cast the actor who fits the role best.
However color-blind casting follows an "I don't see color" model, where the intent is to look past an individual's appearance, one's race and ethnicity in this case, and look instead to their personalities and abilities. However this misses the anti-discriminatory mark as it lacks the nuance in relation to how race is perceived in American society. The United States is built on categorizing people by race, class, gender, and more both systemically and culturally. In order to undo years and years of systemic discrimination, one must take into account how race is perceived.
Instead, color conscious casting serves as a better model to represent underrepresented groups. Color conscious casting considers race and ethnicity in the casting process, ensures minority representation, and takes into account the complexities of a visual-based industry alongside the text. This research looks different productions such as Hamilton (2015), All My Sons (2018), Awake and Sing! (2015), and Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" (2024) and analyzes their casting in relation to the text, and whether or not their castings were color-blind or color conscious.Purchase College SUNYTheatre and PerformanceBachelor of ArtsDickstein, Rachel A
consciousness and unconsciousness
Get PDFMy drawings emerge from a space between consciousness and unconsciousness. Years of training have embedded memories of patterns, shading, and movement deep within my body, to the point where they exist outside of me, independent and alive. When I draw, it becomes a performance: the paper is the stage, and my hand, trained and intuitive, dances across it. I do not need to think about how to draw – my hand already remembers. While it moves, my mind drifts in and out of painting, thinking about the act but also beyond it. There is a delicate tension: when I consciously guide my hand, my thoughts wander, and the hand becomes the main actor, leading the process. It is an unconscious movement, but still rooted in intention. I find myself in constant flux – drawing memories from the far side of awareness, then slipping back into control. It is this back-and-forth, this oscillation between deliberate and instinctive, that defines my practice. I draw consciously, yet unconsciously. My work lives in that in-between space, where intuition and thought blend into a quiet, expressive rhythm – a dance of memory, presence, and the invisible threads that connect body and mind.Purchase College SUNYPainting and DrawingBachelor of Fine ArtsHorvath, Sharo
Hurt This Website: Mourning and Rebirth in a Surreally Digital Age
Get PDFA reflection on my Senior Project, the works and experiences that inspired it, and the concept of death and rebirth through the lens of online ecosystems.Purchase College SUNYNew MediaBachelor of ArtsMcKay, Jo
Let Me Be Your Mirror
Get PDFIn Let Me Be Your Mirror, I create monumental self-portraits that explore the tension and fluidity between my physical body and psychological states. Through bodily distortions, I examine the in-betweens of my female queer experience. I delve into the simultaneous disgust, distress, and fascination with my own corporeality – a body among many female bodies in an overly moralized world. Trapped within claustrophobic mental spaces, fictive versions of myself gaze intently at the viewer, drawing attention to the vulnerability of exposing both my physical and metaphorical insides. Liquidness – exemplified through large, glassy eyes – flows throughout my work, both in gestural mark-making and in literal forms like sweat, water, and pearls. My paintings are cyclical. Eyes, scalps, fleshy red insides, and mint green pearls repeat throughout my paintings, making physical sense of the cycles of my mind and body.Purchase College SUNYPainting and DrawingBachelor of Fine ArtsFlood, Elizabeth J
Fast Forward to the Past, Physical Media to Streaming
Get PDFIn this paper, I analyze the role of nostalgia with home media. From owning physical copies of tapes to streaming your favorite shows, how people consume video content has changed over the years. As defined by Svetlana Boym, nostalgia is a desire for a place or era that has either disappeared or is envisioned, rather than merely a wish for a particular location. In the story about Timmy, nostalgia is about memory and the senses. I'm interested in understanding how the shift from physical to digital media changes people's relationships with entertainment. Additionally, I intend to explore the enjoyment of possessing physical media at home and how that has transformed (VHS, CDs, etc.) I will also explore the changes people deal with in their environment (adding buildings to a city/getting rid of a favorite place).Purchase College SUNYMedia StudiesBachelor of ArtsPine, Jaso
The Aftermath of Violent Crimes: The effects of trauma on victims over time.
Get PDFThis senior project is an exploration of trauma and its lasting psychological, emotional, and physiological effects on victims of violent crimes. Drawing from personal experience, case studies, and academic research, I examine how trauma manifests through PTSD, dissociation, hypersexuality, sleep disorders, and behavioral changes. The project features interviews and stories from multiple individuals affected by sexual assault, police violence, and childhood abuse, highlighting the diversity of trauma responses and coping mechanisms such as therapy, emotional support animals, and peer support groups. It also critiques societal responses, misconceptions about trauma, and the need for trauma-informed care and support systems.Purchase College SUNYJournalismBachelor of ArtsDaly, Ross A