We’re delighted to announce the Audience Choice winners in the 2016 Digital Showcase:

Undergraduate Student Winner:

Christopher Harris: “A Curious Old Back Hall” (Audio Essay) 

Centered around memories of cigarettes and smokers, this project explores the creation of narrative through sounds and silence. Scents and sights produce strong memories, and while they themselves don’t translate to the ear, the sounds associated with them do; this “syn-aesthetic” essay aims to cross the wires between scent and sound, and aurally evoke within the listener those same feelings of memory and nostalgia brought on by scent.

Graduate Student Winner:

Abby Thibodeau: “Dear Messed Up” (Video Essay)

This project examines the interplay between perfectionism and anxiety and attempts to recreate some of the somatic symptoms of anxiety by pairing images of aerial stunts and skeletons with a narrative that centers around seeking advice.

 

Congratulations to these students for their outstanding work!

If you couldn’t make it to the Showcase, don’t worry! You can check out all of this year’s featured projects here.