Emerging Media and Communication students showcased their senior projects to a full crowd of students and faculty on Tuesday.

Tabatha Patterson introduced Politely Blue, a local artist collective comprised of students in the Dallas area.

Alex Young demoed an iPhone app called the Dallas Socials that will be debut in 2012.

Tommy Truong introduced utdemac.com, a  site dedicated to showcasing the talent of EMAC students.

Inspired by her pet Willow, Becca Greening unveiled PawsinPounds.com, a site aimed at educating the community about overcrowded animals shelters and connecting people to animals for adoption.

Angelo Fernandez and Neil Garcia introduced Artist Unknown, a website featuring burgeoning artists.

WFAA anchor John McCaa and reporters Jason Whitely and Monika Diaz explained their passion for their career in Samuel Lo’s video feature.

The EMAC program once again received monies from the Dallas Fort Worth Interactive Marketing Association for a $2000 scholarship to be awarded to an undergraduate student who plans to pursue a career in marketing. The application requires students to write two short essays, one discussing how the EMAC program has made an impact on their educational experience, and one which highlights and critiques a current social media marketing campaign. Last year’s recipient Megan Edwards is currently working with Click Here, the digital marketing division of Dallas based The Richards Group. She is also the creator of The Single Plate — a single person’s guide to grocery shopping, cooking, and eating well.

The scholarship is open to current EMAC sophomores, juniors, and seniors with a 3.0 GPA or higher. All applications are due by October 31st, 2011. Students interested in applying can find additional information on the UT Dallas Financial Aid Website.

If you have any questions about the DFWIMA scholarship, or would like to find out how you or your company can provide monies for a future scholarship, please contact Julie Larsen, Assistant Director of Emerging Media and Communication, julie.larsen@utdallas.edu.

On April 20, 2011, the UT Dallas Conference center filled with students and community members eager to see what our fellow Art & Technology (ATEC) and EMAC students have been cooking up.

The front of the Center was lined with computers featuring interactive, ready-to-play games created in ATEC’s Game Lab (led by Dr. Monica Evans) – and they only killed the power twice! ATEC started off the show with reels featuring some of the best student projects coming out of the ATEC program; they showed off everything from 2D animation to 3D shorts and advanced 3D modeling, texturing, lighting and rigging.

Neil Garcia; photo by Dean Terry

EMAC took the second half of the show with projects from 10 different EMAC students. Neil Garcia (pictured above) showed a short class project video about life – and FUN – in Oak Lawn and shared a little about the challenges of finding the right interview dynamic. Meagan Dahl showed her poetic, short film about living a life you don’t love, then Samuel Lo showed his short piece featuring WFAA’s Jason Whitely on the integration of social media into traditional broadcast media models.

EMAC undergrad Keith Demele (pictured below) presented a short video piece about motocross in Texas. Undergrad Meagan Buchanan‘s fabulous stop-motion cupcake-baking film was shown, and EMAC grad student Lacy Mahone (also pictured below) showed a film documenting a bicycle trip from Dallas to Austin (available online).

Keith Demele; photo by Dean Terry

Tommy Truong presented on the Cameras Everywhere project, which investigated the location and status of every camera on campus, and graduate student Ben Redfield introduced the audience to a concept that connects skillful ATEC and EMAC students with people who need those skills. EMAC grad students Alex Hays and Bradley Griffith rounded out the night presenting on a twitter bot that accepted anonymous tweets to build an identity (or destroy the notion of identity completely) and a fake twitter account that manipulated the source code of tweets so they appeared to be coming from all over the world.

Lacy Mahone; photo by Dean Terry

See you all at next year’s showcase!