FRESHBLOOD
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Temple FMA
BFA Media Arts Thesis Projects
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SPRING 2021
a virtual exhibition honoring the graduating class
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Juliana Concepcion is a multimedia artist with a fascination for sounds. Her work is an ethereal archive of fleeting moments. Using audio as a guide, she extends the planes of ephemerality. She recently graduated Temple University, where and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Media Arts, and a certificate in Music Technology from the Boyer School of Music. This project is an experiment of the archival processes of memory through various mediums - including animation, sound design, music composition, poetry, and digital video.
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Zella Ferin-Niles is a Brooklyn-born video artist recently graduated with a BFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple University. As a young writer and dancer she was initially interested in the world building possibilities film offered. She became passionate about amateurism in her first year, preferring making films alone with less equipment, beginning to explore the ways that origin affects one’s relationship with the world they live in. Often filming herself as the main subject, she plays with voyeuristic tones and is constantly examining the intersections between public and private space. She is also a surrealist at heart, so her videos are meant to be sensory and ethereal, often playing with blending and compositing modes and layering and texture. She currently is experimenting with the corporeal aspects of horror, and working on using her own body in performance and storytelling. For more information on Zella : www.zellavideos.com
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My understanding of media dichotomies has always been that opposites will strengthen and manifest within each other: globalization in domesticity, romance in industry, austerity in humor; I choose to explore these themes through a specific duality -- formality in informality. My works (usually digital media such as video and animation, though I’ve dabbled in analog film and standup) are often presented in the latter using pastel color palettes and somewhat campy visuals; verbalization will be probably be colloquial or something i guess. I choose to want to reject what has been laid out in front of us as proper in favor of a more congenial jawn ya kno?
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Regina Aguilar Valdes is a multimedia artist who just received their Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Media Arts from Temple University. Exploring and learning animation softwares using their own simple drawings has helped them redefine their identity as an artist.