The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center offers an annual award (up to $3,000) to support an innovative project in the visual, performing and media arts that engages creatively with issues of interdisciplinary concern. The competition is open to faculty and graduate students. Both individual and collaborative projects are eligible. Click here for more information about visual, performing, and media arts awards
Spring 2013
Sienna Cordoba, History; Warren Taylor, Materials Research Lab; Secret Texts
Spring 2012
Xarene Eskandar, Media Arts & Technology; SoundCloud
David Gordon, Music, Kon-Hyong Kim, Media Arts & Technology; SoundGene
Solen Kiratli DiCicco, Media Arts & Technology; Soundfield
Spring 2011
Desiree D’Alessandro, Art, Spectatorship in Art and Athleticism: The Form and Physicality of Boxing
Marco Pinter, Media Arts and Technology, Fragmented Reality: Perceptual Art at the Intersection of Sculpture, Dance, Media and Technology
Spring 2010
Stephanie L. Batiste, English/Black Studies, Stacks of Obits: a choreopoem
Deborah Spivak, Art History, Taylor and Mathias Film Archive: Ethnographic Study of South American Medicines
Raymond Uhlir, Art, The Tumulus, The Allegorical, and Sacred Space
Spring 2009
Salman Bakht, Media Arts and Technology (MAT), Christopher Jette, Music Department, Lovely Weather
Elizabeth Folk, Art, Pedestal Cafe
Julianne P. Gavino, History of Art and Architecture, Local Sitings/Global Inscriptions: the Public Life of Posters in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Manilatown, and Japantown
Spring 2008
Christopher Pilafian, Nancy Colahan, Gianna Abondolo, Melissa Ullom, Theater & Dance, Anemone
Alejandro Casazi, Harry Reese, Art Studio, Lungen
Graham Wakefield, Haru Ji, MAT, Artificial Nature as an Infinite Game
Spring 2007
Beth Wynstra, Theater and Dance, Nuestra Voz
Spring 2006
Lisa Jevbratt, Art and MAT, Anne-Marie Hansen, Art and MAT, Dan Overholt, Art and MAT for Pulse
Jenn Figg Art Department for Garden of Murmurs
John Thompson, Music Department, Dan Overholt, MAT for Sonofusion
Spring 2005
Naomi Iizuka, Dramatic Art and Dance, for the Summer Theatre Lab panel discussions
Stephanie Nugent, Dramatic Art and Dance, for Hanging Outside the House, a collaborative dance piece later retitled One
Spring 2004
Naomi Iizuka, Dramatic Art and Dance, for the Summer Theatre Lab panel discussions
Celine Shimizu, Asian American Studies, for the experimental documentary film Birthright