I began this fellowship in December of 2019 by speaking with its coordinator, Dr. Brett Say, about troubleshooting problems that I had been dealing with for months. The project to be completed for the fellowship, the Campus Energy Constellation, required grant money, data from Pitt Facilities Management, and Gallery Space; three things I had recently…
Author: jonomcoles
My Aspirations & Personal Goals
Students who have the privilege of receiving an undergraduate education are given the choice of choosing their field of study at roughly 18 years of age. Depending on one’s influences, they may choose to go into a field that pays the highest, or has good job security, or matches up with their previous academic strengths….
Artistic & Academic Collaboration: The Campus Energy Constellation
The Campus Energy Constellation is the result of a year-long research and development project conducted collaboratively between the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI), the Pitt Office of Sustainability, and the Pitt Facilities Management Department. It began as an Undergraduate Research Project (URP) in the Summer of 2019 at MCSI, under the guidance of Dr….
Academia & Creative Processes
Conceptualizations become divided when put into practice. One idea, whether creative or academic, can become a never-ending series of individual tasks and communications during its exploration. This can change creative endeavors into marathons; artists regularly feel uncomfortable showing work because it is difficult to mentally define and accept completion or finality. One of the many…
Creative Arts Fellowship – Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Creative responses do not occur in solitude. Art making as an action relies upon the realization and revelation of complex networks of intellectual substances and the relationships between them. In this sense, the praxis of the Creative Arts Fellowship displays apparently distant sub-sections of this network, often times identifying the connections between them. This year,…
Introduction – The Campus Energy Constellation
Conducted as part of the Pitt Honors College Creative Arts Fellowship during the Summer of 2020, The Campus Energy Constellation is a dynamic light installation that portrays the University’s energy usage as an array of stars. The piece is comprised of 84 lights – each representing a building owned and operated by the University of…