It’s the year 2017 and crowdfunding films has become commonplace. Making a good film almost always requires at least a small financial investment, and sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com make it easy for both filmmakers and donors to fund projects. Given the utility and real-world application of crowdfunding, the capstone film production course at UW-Madison, …
Last summer marked the beginning of a new construction project in Vilas Hall’s Instructional Media Center (IMC). Over the course of several months, the brand new room known as the Living Room Lab took shape and was completed in November 2016. The Living Room Lab occupies a space that used to be comprised of several …
The teaching assistants of the Department of Communication Arts have always prided themselves on expansive knowledge and dedicated instruction. Yet few, if any, have ever been officially recognized for their efforts on the campus level until now. On Tuesday, February 7th, Communication Arts graduate student Taylor Miller was among the recipients of the 2016 Campus-Wide …
On December 8th, Communication Arts Assistant Professor Lori Kido Lopez gave her talk Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation in Helen C. White Hall. The talk was part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series Asian Americans and the Pleasures of Fantasy sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Professor Lopez is currently a Race, Ethnicity …
Most people are familiar with the Peabody Awards, the distinguished awards given for a variety of media since 1940. What they might not know is that on November 15th Peabody announced it is launching The Media Center, which will be a media production division and scholarly research center of the Peabody Awards. What’s more is …
Lloyd Bitzer, professor emeritus of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin died October 13, 2016, at his family home in Verona, Wisconsin. He was born in Ohio, attended high school in Illinois, received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University, and his PhD from the University of Iowa. He came to the University of Wisconsin …
Communication Arts major Maiya Weber and her fellow UW-Madison student Erica Tisdale have initiative. In August 2016, they took it upon themselves to start Team One Love, UW-Madison’s chapter for the One Love Foundation. Now they are looking to expand that team. The One Love Foundation is an organization dedicated to educating people about the …
Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities Stephen Lucas has had a very distinguished career, spanning over four decades of rhetorical scholarship. To commemorate his many accomplishments, Professor Lucas was named the Conference Honoree at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference, which was held September 29th – October 1st at Syracuse University, New York. First hosted by …
On Sunday, October 9 at 2:00pm, the feature documentary The People’s Republic of Love will premiere in Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight. The independent documentary explores the concept of love in China, examining its cultural, economic, political, and often surprising manifestations. Created mainly by a core crew of only four people, the film was co-written and …
Want to show off your Comm Arts pride? Need something more official for academic and professional events? Well, you’re in luck! Comm Arts has launched an online store featuring a variety of clothing options, until 11:59pm tonight, Tuesday, September 27th. The two links below take you to the same store, but with different shipping options. …