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Discovering Presence & Cyberpsychology

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Max Parola is a senior psychology major working and studying at xREZ Art + Science Lab. He engages in collaborative research projects to study the characteristics of virtual reality systems. News@xREZ caught up with Mr. Parola to talk about his plans for the future and the technology he loves. This Q&A with fellow...
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Looking for a Unified Theory of Information

Amelia Jaycen, Fall 2015 Interdisciplinary Research Studio

This project compares journalistic framing with other kinds of information transmission systems and makes the analogy that information communication between two minds is similar to information communication infrastructure. Like metaphor, journalistic framing is a way of communicating such that both sender and receiver see the message clearly. In journalism, the message...
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Get Funded! Workshop Helps Students Stand Out

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Sept. 11, 2015 is the fourth bi-annual GET FUNDED! Workshop, which teaches students how to write for funding competitions and stand out in stacks of applications. The four-hour workshop is offered every spring and fall semester to UNT students in the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Visual...
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xREZ Joins NAKFI KECK Futures Initiative 2015

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The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) is a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation. Every year, NAFKI brings interdisciplinary researchers together to work in task groups and challenge teams to tackle tough real-world problems through innovative, outstanding communication and cooperation among disciplines....
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Australian News Network’s “Drive” Podcast Interviews Ruth West

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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Tasmanian radio station 936 ABC Hobart interviewed creative catalyst Ruth West Aug. 3 to learn about the art and the science behind her work and to talk about her stay at the University of Tasmania this summer. West is a visiting scholar at the University of Tasmania’s Creative Exchange Institute (CxI) for the month of...
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Ruth West is Visiting Scholar at Tasmanian Creative Exchange Institute

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xREZ Director Ruth West is a visiting scholar at the Creative Exchange Institute at the University of Tasmania this summer. West will speak at the Creative Exchange Institute (CxI) Friday July 24 to introduce CxI to xREZ Art + Science Lab students, their work, lab projects, and to participate in...
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BBC’s Discovery Podcast Features Sonified CSTAR Data

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The soundtrack of today’s BBC World Service Discovery podcast episode “Sounds of Space: Deep Space” uses data from CSTAR telescopes sonified by Andrew Blanton as part of the data-sound project “INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night,” an interactive artwork currently under collaborative development by a team of national and international artists, scientists,...
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Duoc Le Wins $5,000 in Mercedes-Benz Art Program

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Duoc Le is one of six students selected for the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Experiencing Perspectives art program, which includes a $5,000 award for Le. Le’s work was chosen last June as part of a curated exhibition installed throughout the Mercedes-Benz Business Center Operations facility...
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Student journalist digs into the story behind Texas coal power

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Amelia Jaycen’s energy story, “Price of Power” was published Sunday, May 24 in the Denton Record-Chronicle. The page one feature digs into the history of Denton’s municipally-owned electric utility and the science behind its coal-fired power plant built in 1973, which the city is still using today to...
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RePhoto for Urban Tree Surveys

Christopher, Christopher Lee, How to Monitor Urban Forests From the Ground Up

The semester is coming to a close here at The University of North Texas. This will be my final post of the semester, but not of this project. I’ll be continuing this into the summer and fall. I’m not sure where it will go after that. But I want to...
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Searching for a Unified Theory

Amelia Jaycen, Searching for a Unified Theory, Spring 2015 Independent Research Projects

Searching for the significance of “information” from angles of study as disparate as electrical engineering, communication studies, journalism, computer science, information science, and mathematics reveals a dynamic and changing phenomenon, at times ephemeral yet characterizable, both mediated and directly, inextricably linked to the physical world. Claude Shannon is considered the...
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Always Making the Shot

Always Making the Shot, Gussan Jalil, Spring 2015 Independent Research Projects

I have developed several prototypes for this project, each superseding the previous model. In testing the feasibility of this design, I 3d printed my files using a makerbot printer. That model was too frail and jagged to serve as my final project. After my trials with this printer, I decided...
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Digital Manipulation of Landscape & Geography

Digital Manipulation of Local Geography and Landscape, Gabriel Vega, Spring 2015 Independent Research Projects

The first stage of this project resulted in creating six 24″ X 30″ high resolution prints. To create these prints, I used original imagery from various sources including Google Earth and NASA. The images were then used as an input and manipulated using a custom algorithm. The software to create...
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Relatable Forms

Gussan Jalil, Lichtenburg Experimentation, Spring 2015 Independent Research Projects

How is it that similar formations in nature yield such a variety of functions? A bolt of lightning reminds me of a river delta-a blood vessel, a root-and I have grown curious to know if these observable phenomena occur in places yet unobserved. This project was influenced by my hope...
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Mindful Improvisational Music and Dance

Jeremy Deutsch, Jeremy Deutsch, Mindful Improvisational Music and Dance, Spring 2015 Independent Research Projects

The project in full is an interactive meditative experience that can be utilized by anyone willing to try, for the purpose of increasing mindfulness, self-reflection, and comfortable expression of things that may be less likely to be put into words. Most of what went into this project was a culmination...
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