Setna Fan Ge (MFA 2020) and Theresa Tiliakos (PhD student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) In 2020, ASCI created a pilot Collaboration Grant program on a slightly different schedule from the standard ASCI Collaboration Grant. This allowed UChicago Department of Visual Arts graduate students and their collaborators to begin their projects in the Winter quarter and work through the summer.
Dante in the Lab Beatrice Fazio (PhD candidate, RLL, Italian Studies) and Tanvi Gandhi (PhD candidate, Physics)
Robot Mediation of Performer-Spectator Dynamics Baldwin Giang (PhD student, Music) and Valerie Zhao (PhD student, Computer Science)
Subjective Realities Jen Ding (PhD 2021, Neurobiology) and Anton Auth (MFA 2021, Visual Arts)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill Marissa Fenley (PhD candidate, English & TAPS) and Blair Bainbridge (PhD candidate, Anthropology & Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science)
2018–19
Biophilia Alan Perry (MFA Candidate, Art and Technology Studies, SAIC) and Rossy Natale (PhD student, Integrative Biology, UChicago)
Coalesce: The Space inside Repetition Predrag Popovic (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Rosemary Hall (MFA candidate, Printmedia, SAIC)
Dripping, Creaking, Flowing: Narratives of Hydrological Change in Antarctica Grant Macdonald (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Katie Wood (MFA candidate, Sound, SAIC)
The Exotic is Never Home Natalia Piland (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) and Jacobo Zambrano (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)
Under One Roof Niko Shahbazian (MA Candidate, Middle Eastern Studies, UChicago) and Aram Atamian (MFA Candidate, Performance, SAIC)
Invisible/Invincible: The Bacteria Survival Guide Joo Young Lee (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC), Mirae Lee (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago), and Maggie Zhang (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago)
Looking at the Speculum Emma Gilheany (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago) and Efrat Hakimi (MFA candidate, Painting and Drawing, SAIC)
A Choreographic Score to Human Particle Detection Anne-Sophie Reichert (PhD candidate, Anthropology) and Evan Angelico (PhD candidate, Physics)
Power Structures: Connotations of the Facade in State Architecture Ayesha Singh (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Elizabeth “Jordie” Davies (PhD student, Political Science, UChicago)
Social Movement and Media Narrative: Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis of Socio-political News Coverage Kushal K. Dey (PhD candidate, Statistics), Lauren M. Jackson (PhD candidate, English), and Lei Sun (PhD candidate, Statistics)
2016–17
Dissecting Enchantment: Between Gods and Ghosts Hilary Leathem (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Adrienne Elyse Meyers (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago), and Agnes Mondragón (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago)
The View from Nowhere: Suprahuman Vision through Satellite Imagery and Deep Neural Networks Will Wiebe (MFA candidate, Photography, SAIC) and John Santerre (PhD candidate, Computer Science, UChicago)
Imagining with Runoff Jelani Hannah (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago) and Zoe Greenham (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)
Randomness and Mind Games Xinyi Zhu (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media and Animation, SAIC) and Kieran Murphy (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago)
Transformative Poetry: Applications in Alzheimer’s Disease Nigel O’Hearn (MA student, Humanities, UChicago) and Tiara Starks (MA student, Psychology, UChicago)
Unfolding Dimensionality Yukun Zeng (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Yu Ji (PhD student, Psychology, UChicago), and Siamack Hajimohammad (MA student, Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC)
net(work) Pierce Gradone (PhD candidate, Music Composition, UChicago), and Dana Simmons (PhD candidate, Neurobiology, UChicago)
2015–16
Woven Relations Dylan Fish (MFA candidate, Fiber & Material Studies, SAIC) and Daniel Johnstone (PhD candidate, Mathematics, UChicago)
Scaling Quelccaya Meredith Leich (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, SAIC) and Andrew Malone (PhD candidate, Glaciology and Climatology, UChicago)
Magnifying Identity Jan Brugger (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago) and K. Supriya (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago)
Molecular Movement Andrew Bearnot (MFA candidate, Visual Art, UChicago), Ken Ellis-Guardiola (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago) and Jeff Montgomery (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago)
Filament Findings Keeley Haftner (MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC) and Will McFadden (PhD candidate, Biophysics, UChicago)
Crystals: Order and Disorder April Martin (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Nicole James (PhD candidate, Chemistry, UChicago)
2014–15
Physical | Digital Jonathan Rockford, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Martin Scheeler, PhD candidate, Physics (University of Chicago)
Syntax & Songbirds Geoff Brookshire, PhD candidate, Psychology (University of Chicago); Kyler Brown, PhD candidate, Computational Neuroscience (University of Chicago); and Marcelle Pierson, PhD candidate, Music History and Theory (University of Chicago)
The Fabric of the Universe Isaac Facio, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Benedikt Diemer, PhD candidate, Astrophysics (University of Chicago)
The Phoenix Index Carl Fuldner, PhD candidate, Art History (University of Chicago); and Shane DuBay, PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology (University of Chicago)
The Adjustments Damien Bright, PhD student, Anthropology, (University of Chicago); Cameron Hu, PhD student, Anthropology (University of Chicago); and Tobias Zehntner, MFA candidate, Art and Technology Studies, (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2013–14
Fiction Addiction Bill Hutchison (Department of English) and Anya Bershad (Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience)
Hearts Beating as One: Emotions and Physiology during Artistic Performance Heather Harden (Department of Psychology), Elizabeth Necka (Department of Psychology), Patrick Fitzgibbon (Department of Music), and Elizabeth Hopkins (Department of Music)
Neurosonics: Rhythmic Stimulation of Epileptic Cell Cultures Andrew McManus (Department of Music) and Tahra Eissa (Department of Neurobiology)
Breaking Ice Iddo Aharony (Department of Music), Ivo Peters (Department of Physics), and Qin Xu (Department of Physics)
2012–13
The Chromochord Francisco Castillo Trigueros (Music) and Josiah Zayner (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
An Artistic Collision Anthony Adcock (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Samuel Meehan (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)
Wishful Permutation Jen Smoose (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Scott Waitukaitis (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)
Nostalgia: A Digital History Rebekah Baglini (PhD Candidate, the Department of Linguistics) and Jonathan Schroeder (PhD Candidate, the Department of English)
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2021–22
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2020–21
Setna Fan Ge (MFA 2020) and Theresa Tiliakos (PhD student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) In 2020, ASCI created a pilot Collaboration Grant program on a slightly different schedule from the standard ASCI Collaboration Grant. This allowed UChicago Department of Visual Arts graduate students and their collaborators to begin their projects in the Winter quarter and work through the summer.
Dante in the Lab Beatrice Fazio (PhD candidate, RLL, Italian Studies) and Tanvi Gandhi (PhD candidate, Physics)
Robot Mediation of Performer-Spectator Dynamics Baldwin Giang (PhD student, Music) and Valerie Zhao (PhD student, Computer Science)
Subjective Realities Jen Ding (PhD 2021, Neurobiology) and Anton Auth (MFA 2021, Visual Arts)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill Marissa Fenley (PhD candidate, English & TAPS) and Blair Bainbridge (PhD candidate, Anthropology & Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science)
2018–19
Biophilia Alan Perry (MFA Candidate, Art and Technology Studies, SAIC) and Rossy Natale (PhD student, Integrative Biology, UChicago)
Coalesce: The Space inside Repetition Predrag Popovic (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Rosemary Hall (MFA candidate, Printmedia, SAIC)
Dripping, Creaking, Flowing: Narratives of Hydrological Change in Antarctica Grant Macdonald (PhD candidate, Geophysical Sciences, UChicago) and Katie Wood (MFA candidate, Sound, SAIC)
The Exotic is Never Home Natalia Piland (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) and Jacobo Zambrano (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)
Under One Roof Niko Shahbazian (MA Candidate, Middle Eastern Studies, UChicago) and Aram Atamian (MFA Candidate, Performance, SAIC)
Invisible/Invincible: The Bacteria Survival Guide Joo Young Lee (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC), Mirae Lee (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago), and Maggie Zhang (PhD student, Microbiology, UChicago)
Looking at the Speculum Emma Gilheany (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago) and Efrat Hakimi (MFA candidate, Painting and Drawing, SAIC)
A Choreographic Score to Human Particle Detection Anne-Sophie Reichert (PhD candidate, Anthropology) and Evan Angelico (PhD candidate, Physics)
Power Structures: Connotations of the Facade in State Architecture Ayesha Singh (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Elizabeth “Jordie” Davies (PhD student, Political Science, UChicago)
Social Movement and Media Narrative: Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis of Socio-political News Coverage Kushal K. Dey (PhD candidate, Statistics), Lauren M. Jackson (PhD candidate, English), and Lei Sun (PhD candidate, Statistics)
2016–17
Dissecting Enchantment: Between Gods and Ghosts Hilary Leathem (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Adrienne Elyse Meyers (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago), and Agnes Mondragón (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago)
The View from Nowhere: Suprahuman Vision through Satellite Imagery and Deep Neural Networks Will Wiebe (MFA candidate, Photography, SAIC) and John Santerre (PhD candidate, Computer Science, UChicago)
Imagining with Runoff Jelani Hannah (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago) and Zoe Greenham (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC)
Randomness and Mind Games Xinyi Zhu (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media and Animation, SAIC) and Kieran Murphy (PhD candidate, Physics, UChicago)
Transformative Poetry: Applications in Alzheimer’s Disease Nigel O’Hearn (MA student, Humanities, UChicago) and Tiara Starks (MA student, Psychology, UChicago)
Unfolding Dimensionality Yukun Zeng (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago), Yu Ji (PhD student, Psychology, UChicago), and Siamack Hajimohammad (MA student, Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC)
net(work) Pierce Gradone (PhD candidate, Music Composition, UChicago), and Dana Simmons (PhD candidate, Neurobiology, UChicago)
2015–16
Woven Relations Dylan Fish (MFA candidate, Fiber & Material Studies, SAIC) and Daniel Johnstone (PhD candidate, Mathematics, UChicago)
Scaling Quelccaya Meredith Leich (MFA candidate, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, SAIC) and Andrew Malone (PhD candidate, Glaciology and Climatology, UChicago)
Magnifying Identity Jan Brugger (MFA candidate, Visual Arts, UChicago) and K. Supriya (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago)
Molecular Movement Andrew Bearnot (MFA candidate, Visual Art, UChicago), Ken Ellis-Guardiola (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago) and Jeff Montgomery (PhD student, Chemistry, UChicago)
Filament Findings Keeley Haftner (MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC) and Will McFadden (PhD candidate, Biophysics, UChicago)
Crystals: Order and Disorder April Martin (MFA candidate, Sculpture, SAIC) and Nicole James (PhD candidate, Chemistry, UChicago)
2014–15
Physical | Digital Jonathan Rockford, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Martin Scheeler, PhD candidate, Physics (University of Chicago)
Syntax & Songbirds Geoff Brookshire, PhD candidate, Psychology (University of Chicago); Kyler Brown, PhD candidate, Computational Neuroscience (University of Chicago); and Marcelle Pierson, PhD candidate, Music History and Theory (University of Chicago)
The Fabric of the Universe Isaac Facio, MFA candidate, Fiber and Material Studies (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); and Benedikt Diemer, PhD candidate, Astrophysics (University of Chicago)
The Phoenix Index Carl Fuldner, PhD candidate, Art History (University of Chicago); and Shane DuBay, PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology (University of Chicago)
The Adjustments Damien Bright, PhD student, Anthropology, (University of Chicago); Cameron Hu, PhD student, Anthropology (University of Chicago); and Tobias Zehntner, MFA candidate, Art and Technology Studies, (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2013–14
Fiction Addiction Bill Hutchison (Department of English) and Anya Bershad (Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience)
Hearts Beating as One: Emotions and Physiology during Artistic Performance Heather Harden (Department of Psychology), Elizabeth Necka (Department of Psychology), Patrick Fitzgibbon (Department of Music), and Elizabeth Hopkins (Department of Music)
Neurosonics: Rhythmic Stimulation of Epileptic Cell Cultures Andrew McManus (Department of Music) and Tahra Eissa (Department of Neurobiology)
Breaking Ice Iddo Aharony (Department of Music), Ivo Peters (Department of Physics), and Qin Xu (Department of Physics)
2012–13
The Chromochord Francisco Castillo Trigueros (Music) and Josiah Zayner (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
An Artistic Collision Anthony Adcock (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Samuel Meehan (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)
Wishful Permutation Jen Smoose (MFA Candidate, the Department of Visual Arts) and Scott Waitukaitis (PhD Candidate, the Department of Physics)
Nostalgia: A Digital History Rebekah Baglini (PhD Candidate, the Department of Linguistics) and Jonathan Schroeder (PhD Candidate, the Department of English)
