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Machines for a Perfect World: Author: Tullar, Christopher Robin; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: Wonder, optimism, and discovery are to me the most positive and exciting aspects of exploration of any kind. These are the central themes in Machines for a Perfect World. My main goal in putting this show together is to create pieces that incite these emotions and ideals in the viewer. The visual languages I utilize to this end are those of science fiction, industry, and architecture - aesthetic influences of mine from as far back as I can recall. science and more specifically, the fictional accounts surrounding the future of scientific discovery have a particular resonance that has always cap...; Download File | View full details

A Matter of Life and Death: Rethinking Evolution and the Nature of science on Television: Author: Bard, Susanne Clara; Date: 2006-08-15; Program: science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: In a world where antibiotic resistance can make bacterial infections deadly and the HIV virus constantly mutates inside the human body, an understanding of evolution and its mechanisms is increasingly important. Yet much of the public is still either hostile to or misunderstands evolution and its mechanisms. Television provides the bulk of the general public's exposure to science once formal education has ended. The rhetorical strategies employed by much of science and evolution programming, along with an emphasis on content over process, delivers the message that science is a search for absol...; Download File | View full details

Moving beyond broadcast and traditional pedagogy: making a children's documentary for the new media landscape: Author: Walker, Hannah Smith; Date: 2008-12-15; Program: science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: This thesis is a synthesis between the use of new media in the children's documentary, Why don't we ride zebras?, the use of technology in both formal and informal education, and the convergence of user-malleable media ideal for education-based documentaries....; Download File | View full details