Professor Eric Hoyt has been busy. In the span of a week, two projects he spearheaded, Lantern and Project Arclight, have received an award and a grant, respectively. The award comes from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) for Lantern: The Search and Visualization Platform for the Media History Digital Library. The 2014 Anne …
On the last day of lecture this semester, students in Eric Hoyt’s CA 155: Intro to Digital Media Production course walked out of the freezing cold and into an awards show. The first-ever Hoyty Awards were held Thursday, December 12th in Vilas Hall. Part screening, part competition, and above all an end-of-semester celebration, the Hoyty …
After a brilliant 34 year career as the Head Film Archivist at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Maxine Ducey is retiring effective January 2, 2014. With consummate skill and unwavering professionalism, Maxine served the Center and the large community of researchers, students, and members of the public who patronized the Center’s archive. …
On Thursday, November 14th, Communications Arts alumni Jill Soloway and Jim Frohna visited campus for the screening of the feature film Afternoon Delight. The film was the debut feature for both writer/director Soloway and cinematographer Frohna. Although showing her film in Madison was the primary reason for Jill Soloway’s visit, she filled her visit with …
The Communication Arts Department would like to thank all of our alumni who completed the survey last spring. Committed to continuing our tradition of excellence, the Communication Arts Department values input from our alumni as we assess the program and plan for the future. Alumni noted a high level of satisfaction with the quality of …
The Department was pleased to welcome the Communication Arts Partners (CAPs) back to campus during the recent Homecoming weekend (October 11-12). The CAPs group consists of generous spirited alumni and emeritus faculty who have formed a departmental board of visitors to support the mission of Communication Arts. (For more on CAPs and its membership, visit …
This story originally appeared in the Vilas Voice. Twenty-six years—and plenty of tv series, movies and scripts—later, Jill Soloway (B.A.’87) still remembers the profound influence of her semester in the capstone production course, Comm Arts 659. “It was a revelation to me. It made me want to be an artist. It made me look at …
Position:Head Film Archivist, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks an experienced moving image archivist to oversee the film and video collections of the Wisconsin Centerfor Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) and, in affiliation with the UW’sSchool of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), to teach one courseannually in archival theory …
Lea Jacobs, a film professor in Communication Arts, has been named Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School. As one of the associate deans, she will manage faculty and student issues in thirty-eight graduate programs of study, ranging from matters of research, to education, to administration. Professor Jacobs has been a …
The Department of Communication Arts Chair and WCFTR Director Vance Kepley is very pleased to announce the successful completion of a major, year-long effort to systematically reprocess one of the Center’s most important archival collections. With the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Center has completed the comprehensive reprocessing …