Treuhaft Fund for Art Technology:
Past Award Recipients

Each year the Treuhaft grant awards funds designed to provide technology in support of student opportunities to work with faculty in new and innovative ways in any art form or medium. Please reference our past award recipients below and information detailing each of the individual projects.

Past Treuhaft Award Recipients

Spring 2011

Student: Ariel Levine
Project: Wearable Knitted Art
Major: Studio Art and Art History Minor: Honors Forum
Faculty Sponsor: Sang Wook Lee
Description: Continuation of exploring different materials and will create a series of wearable knitted art forms.
Materials needed: SilverReed Knitting Machine - SK55

Fall 2010

Student: Jared Greenbaum
Project: Marketing Plan for Academic Art Departments at Skidmore College
Major: Self-Determined in Arts Administration
Faculty Sponsor: Christine Page
Description: Researching the marketing issues of four departments: Studio Art, Music, Theater and Dance and create a marketing plan to include brochures, advertisements, website designs, a budget, media plan and public relations plan.
Materials needed: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard Student and Teacher Edition

Student: Jared Spencer
Project: Interpersonal Sensorimotor Synchronization in Snare Drummers
Major: Psychology Minor: Music
Faculty Sponsor: Flip Phillips
Description: Observing the role of other sensory cues besides the sounds from the drum/metrnome that help snare-drummers synchronize their rhythm patterns with one another.
Materials needed: Alesis 8-input audio-to-USB box, piezoelectric drum sensors, etc.

Student: Elizabeth Umbrino
Project: Home Away From Home
Major: Studio Art Minor: Art History
Faculty Sponsor: San Wook Lee
Description: Creating a series of chairs inspired by travels abroad
Materials needed: 4-color Passap knitting machine

Fall 2009

Student: Brendan Gaffney
Project: Design and Construction of an Analog Synthesizer
Major: Physics
Faculty Sponsor: Jill Linz
Description: The construction of a fully analog synthesizer, designed specifically for research and investigation of the electronics principles behind synthesized sounds as well as the art of creating synthesized sounds and music.
Materials needed: Electronic Component parts, electronic supplies, aluminum faceplates and printing materials, wood, and speakers

Student: Haley Wulfman
Project: This is What Remains: Former Sites of the Textile Industry in Troy and Cohoes
Major: Art
Faculty Sponsor: Kyle Ford
Description: Workings of a large format camera and guidance in the editing process. Creation of mural sized prints of these former site of industry in Troy and Cohoes.
Materials needed: 2 types of lenses, a light meter, tripod, film and film holders

Spring 2009

Student: Matt Caldamone
Project: An experimental documentary experience in the form of a video triptych
Major: Art
Faculty Sponsor: Evangelos Courpas
Description: An attempt to investigate the social environments surrounding young adults (18-25) in past generations while exploring the personal lives of members of his own family at that age. Combine visual information including HD video, animation, kinetic typography, and old photographs with audio interviews.
Materials needed: 3 - 40in. LCD TV's

Student: Nicholas Curcio
Project: Creating an Ableton Live tutorialMajor: Music
Faculty Sponsor: Anthony Holland
Description: To give music tech students expertise in another music software program, make the studio more extensive and powerful, help unused MIDI keyboard reach its full functional potential, and add new dimensions and depth to the music technology curriculum and coursework.
Materials needed: Ableton Live 7 software license 

Spring 2008

Student: Meredith Mowder
Project: Multi-Speaker Monitoring and Installation
Major: Studio Art and Art History Minor: Honors Forum
Faculty Sponsor: Evangelos Courpas“Voice Boxes,” Senior Thesis Exhibition in Studio Art.

A Project involving new media technology woven into the canon of sculpture and installation art.  The project includes five speakers, where particular sounds are created for specific speakers, splitting tracks to the speakers via surround-sound technology.

Materials Needed: Apogee Ensemble, Channel Receiver, cables, and hardware.

Student: Sean Mattison
Project: Le Musee Hypothetique
Major: Spanish Minor: Art Studio
Faculty Sponsor: Evangelos Courpas

Create a series of small scale projections that would be part of a mixed media installation destined for Case Gallery during the month of April.  Installation would consist of building 3-4 boxes with space and shelves for video projections, drawings, photographs, found objects, etc. that would be an exploration of the crossroads between traditional and new media.

Materials Needed: 4 projectors, lumber and rear projection screen 

Fall 2007

Student: James Ayers
Project: The Teabox
Major: Music
Faculty Sponsor: Anthony Holland

Student: Eric Egan
Project: Visual and Haptic Perception of  3-D Objects
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Sponsor: Flip Phillips

Project being undertaken in the Vision Laboratory.  Research focuses on the nature of so-called mental representations of shape.


Fall 2006

Student: Zach Gage
Project: The Other Opening
Major: Studio Art
Faculty Sponsor: Evangelos Courpas

Wear binaural microphones to various art openings at large museums. After recording events, mix and match to create a recording that was for the most part ambient show opening chatter.

Materials needed: DSM-1S/x binaural microphone, DSM-Windscreen Headband Accessory, PA-24XP Preamplifier, Mini-XLR plug upgrade option, M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 Compact Flash Recorder, HUKE USB 2.0 MP3 Player, SANDISK 1GB SD cards, SONY Studio Monitor Headphones

Fall 2005

Student: Caitlin Hinz
Project: Podcasting Technology
Major: Art History
Faculty Sponsor(s): John Weber and Susan Kerr

Museum to provide iPods and iTalk microphones to visitors to record unofficial commentary or audio guides in the museum, as well as to listen to the podcasts created by others regarding particular pieces within the exhibition.

Materials needed: iPods and iTalk microphones.

Student: Ashley Stoddard
Project: 2D and 3D animation, projection and painting enclosed with a constructed environment..
Major:
Faculty Sponsor: John Danison

The installation will explore how we construct and interpret various identities of the self in relation to others. Materials needed: projector, black rear-projection screen, construction materials

Student: Matthew Belsky
Project: Integrating Cartography, Computers, and the Fine Arts
Major: Fine Arts
Faculty Sponsor: John Danison

To purchase software, Vue 5 Infinite, that creates realistic computer landscapes.

Fall 2004

Student: Sean Mattison
Project:
Major:
Faculty Sponsor: Tom Lewis

Interactive Video Art Installation.

Materials needed: Apple Powerbook, MaxMSP plus Jitter bundle, Digital Performer, I-Cube X System with extra sensors.

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