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PhD Candidate Yandong Li organized a virtual panel “Environmental Objects,” and presented his work on the solar cooker as a media object, concentrating on its visual appearance as novel, modern, even extraterrestrial. Details here: <… Read more
Join us in congratulating Kenneth Zacher, who has been awarded a scholarship designed to assist students pursuing a degree in the humanities. He recently presented his research on AI songwriting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in May 2025. Professor Rich Watts (French & Italian) supervised Kenneth’s research project on creativity, artificial intelligence, and music. You can read more about Kenneth here <… Read more
Virtual assistants, such as Apples Siri, can perform a range of tasks or services for users and a majority of them sound like white women. Golden Marie Owens, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Washington, says there is much to learn about a person from how they sound. The...Featured
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What is your project for the Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Symposium?
My project is a video essay titled "Queer Silence." I explore the meaningful use of silence within a small selection of contemporary queer films, directly experimenting with the relationship between image and silence.
How did you find the topic for your project?
I developed the project while I was taking Professor Jennifer Bean's course CMS 321: Queer Feelings and Video Essay… Read more
For students that didn’t get a chance to work with you, what was your job and what did you do for the Cinema and Media Studies Department?
I am currently the department administrator, the person who manages the business of the department such as budgets, payroll, and curriculum. In past years I worked more directly with students as both the graduate advisor and undergraduate advisor.
What have you enjoyed most about your job?
There are… Read more
University of Washington's 28th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on May 16 from 11:00am - 5:00pm. Presentations will be held in multiple locations on campus. Two CMS majors, Egan Norton and Ellie Bradbury, have been accepted to the Undergraduate Research symposium with projects they developed in Professor Jennifer Bean's CMS 321 course last fall. Their video essays will be showcased as part of the Visual Arts & Design (VAD) Showcase, which will be… Read more
When UW junior Audrey Spurgeon is at Husky athletic events, she's usually part of the broadcast team, thanks to an internship through the Big Ten Network's StudentU program.
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Current Doctoral student Calac Nogueira's video essay, "The Hand that Touches the Arm" was recently published in [in]Transition (12:1, winter 2025), the open peer reviewed academic journal published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and owned by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies . [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies … Read more