ISSUE 43 | December 2025Exploring the intersection of creativity and technology...
Issue 43 of The Nouspace Student Research Gallery presents a wide-ranging collection of DTC student work that reflects innovative digital storytelling, interaction design, and AI-mediated creativity. Spanning senior seminar collaborations, web-based experiences, HTML games, cinematic profiles, and generative media, this issue highlights how students are engaging critically and creatively with contemporary digital tools while grounding their work in human experience, narrative, and cultural inquiry.
Featured projects include large-scale collaborative initiatives such as the senior seminar project T1 Timestream, which blends augmented reality, history, and place-based storytelling, alongside exhibitions from DTC 338: Generative AI that explore ethical, aesthetic, and conceptual challenges in generative AI art. Interactive web projects examine themes of language, identity, environment, and media culture through scroll-based narratives, poetic interfaces, and experimental typography, while browser games and playful simulations demonstrate strong command of logic, interaction, and real-time systems.
The issue also includes video documentary profiles, fictional shorts, animated posters, and AI-generated videos that emphasize cinematic experimentation and emerging forms of authorship. Together, the projects in Issue 43 reveal DTC students thinking across disciplines—merging code, design, storytelling, and critical reflection—to imagine new ways of making, watching, and interacting with digital media.
T1 Timestream
Chelsea Cowsert, Midori Davis, Tiffany Duran, Neely Ellis, Josie Gallaher, Emma Gebhart, Ryann Gugginsberg, Shannan Guo, Zach Heller, Oliver Hiatt, Elijah Houston, Haili Kuanoni, Kevin Le, Benjamin Lechuga, Nana Mohamed, Tommy Ortale, Annaliese Sanders
T1 TIMESTREAM brings Terminal 1's history to life through Augmented Reality (AR). The AR experience blends community, design, and technology to reimagine the Waterfront's past and future. In the near future, Terminal 1 will introduce the Public Market, a vibrant hub for local makers, small businesses, and visitors.
Creative Challenges in
AI ART
Abbas Azarm, Anatolii Liskov, Callum Robinson, Chelsea Cowsert, Christian, Dakotta Bhatti, Danielle Gilmore, Diego Silan, Elijah Houston, Luke Auretto-Piper, Luke Higgins, Marine Malisetyan, Marnie Cooper, Muniroth Ly, Oliver Garcia-Fariña, Rachel Karls, Rostyslav Mitrianu, Sam Barclay, Sasha Sabic, Tucker Christensen, Zavien Houston
DTC 338 Special Topics: Generative AI / Prof. Will Luers
This exhibition presents collaborative essays and individual artworks from DTC 338: Generative AI (2025), exploring the creative, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of making art with AI. Each group investigated a focused issue—such as data ethics, hybrid authorship, or authentic emotion—through research, AI dialogue, and hands-on experimentation, culminating in a unified text-and-media project and an original creative artifact. Together, the works show how AI can function not as a shortcut but as a collaborator shaped by human intention, with students guiding decisions at every stage of the process.
Star Adventures
Paul Braden, Dakotta Bhatti, Lindsey Jacobsen, Matthew Strickland
DTC 477 Advanced Web Design and Development / Prof. Will Luers
Star Adventures is a browser-based arcade game inspired by classic Star Wars space battles, where players pilot a lone ship against waves of incoming enemies. Built with a real-time game loop and canvas-based rendering, the project demonstrates core game mechanics including player input, timed enemy spawning, projectile combat, collision detection, and score tracking. Through structured logic and iterative updates at 60 frames per second, the game emphasizes responsive interaction and clear state management, culminating in a complete play cycle with start, game-over, and restart states.
A Poem of Love & Unity Across Languages
Marine Malisetyane
DTC 477 Advanced Web Design and Development / Prof. Will Luers
This project celebrates how love and unity connect us across cultures. Each page reveals a universal idea, expressed through many languages each reflecting the meaning held within that word. The floating words represent voices from around the world; click them to discover their language, country, and pronunciation. In a world often divided, may this remind us that understanding is where unity begins.
Elastic Text
Muniroth Ly
DTC 477 Advanced Web Design and Development / Prof. Will Luers
Elastic Text is an interactive browser-based experiment in which language responds directly to gesture and scale. Each click generates a movable text field that grows with the user’s drag, shifting its words as the space expands. As the div reaches larger dimensions, the text begins to destabilize and scramble, turning readable language into visual noise. The project explores the relationship between control, chance, and legibility, treating text not as fixed content but as a material that stretches, mutates, and breaks under interaction.
This project is a scroll-driven web experience that uses motion, interactivity, and digital storytelling to explore the environmental consequences of human activity. The site unfolds as a single narrative with horizontal transitions, guiding users through three phases focused on deforestation, ocean depletion, and overconsumption. Combining hand-drawn vector illustrations with responsive interactions and calls to action, the project merges technical web design skills with purposeful communication to create an accessible and memorable experience centered on environmental awareness.
We created our site inspired by The Marías' "Submarine" album because it leaves a lot of space for interpretation. Its carries distance, tension, reflection and felt like they could be expressed clearly through a storyline rather than just a simple analysis. The site is our way of organizing those ideas into a sequence that feels natural, letting each part of the narrative echo something from the album without trying to define it.
This project presents a mock social media feed that mimics the familiar look and interactions of popular platforms while revealing a critical message about curated online identities. Each post initially appears as a polished snapshot of everyday life, but an interactive “Hidden Truth” button invites viewers to uncover the unseen realities behind these images. By pairing recognizable interface design with moments of disruption, the work encourages users to question authenticity, comparison, and performance in digital culture, exposing the gap between what is shared publicly and what remains concealed.
The Year 2045
Sasha Sabic
DTC 338 Special Topics: Generative AI / Prof. Will Luers
This generative AI video is a short media artifact created for a collaborative world-building project set in the year 2045. Using image generation, sound design, and spoken audio, the work takes the form of a speculative story, advertisement, meme, or documentary fragment.
Live Beyond
Anatolii Liskov
DTC 338 Special Topics: Generative AI / Prof. Will Luers
This generative AI video is a short media artifact created for a collaborative world-building project set in the year 2045. Using image generation, sound design, and spoken audio, the work takes the form of a speculative story, advertisement, meme, or documentary fragment.
2045 Meme
Muniroth Ly
DTC 338 Special Topics: Generative AI / Prof. Will Luers
This generative AI video is a short media artifact created for a collaborative world-building project set in the year 2045. Using image generation, sound design, and spoken audio, the work takes the form of a speculative story, advertisement, meme, or documentary fragment.
The Master Artisan
Sasha Sabic
DTC 208 Digital Cinema / Will Luers
The Profile Project assignment focuses on profiling a subject through careful interview planning and supporting visual documentation. The result blends spoken narrative with filmed evidence of the activity itself.
Vivian Zoller Profile
Amelia Newberg
DTC 208 Digital Cinema / Will Luers
The Profile Project assignment focuses on profiling a subject through careful interview planning and supporting visual documentation. The result blends spoken narrative with filmed evidence of the activity itself.
D&D Enthusiast
Daniel Mitryanu
DTC 208 Digital Cinema / Will Luers
The Profile Project assignment focuses on profiling a subject through careful interview planning and supporting visual documentation. The result blends spoken narrative with filmed evidence of the activity itself.
Radiation Therapist
Phi Tien Ho
DTC 208 Digital Cinema / Will Luers
The Profile Project assignment focuses on profiling a subject through careful interview planning and supporting visual documentation. The result blends spoken narrative with filmed evidence of the activity itself.
Silver Buckle Ranch
Rachel Karls
DTC 208 Digital Cinema / Will Luers
The Profile Project assignment focuses on profiling a subject through careful interview planning and supporting visual documentation. The result blends spoken narrative with filmed evidence of the activity itself.
Campus Thief
edited by Cato Hess; video story & production: Cato Hess Jorah Yates, Racheal Karls, Shawn Mann
DTC 208 Digital Cinema / Will Luers
This one-minute short emerged from a shared script and storyboard, then diverged through individual edits. The version shown here was edited by Cato Hess.
Marble & Ink
Anatolii Liskov
DTC 336 Multimedia Design / Prof Chris Dreger
Assignment was to create a poster for a multi-act, multi-day event, and then to animate that static poster for a compelling digital animated poster to promote that event.
Groovy Nights
Dalila Drugovic
DTC 336 Multimedia Design / Prof Chris Dreger
Assignment was to create a poster for a multi-act, multi-day event, and then to animate that static poster for a compelling digital animated poster to promote that event.
CloudBerry Logo
Amelia Newberg
DTC 336 Multimedia Design / Prof Chris Dreger
Assignment was to create a logo for a fictional company.
CyberDuck Logo
Dalila Drugovic
DTC 336 Multimedia Design / Prof Chris Dreger
Assignment was to create a logo for a fictional company.
Inside Scoop Logo
Marilyn Gable
DTC 336 Multimedia Design / Prof Chris Dreger
Assignment was to create a logo for a fictional company.
Fat Yak Logo
Wyatt Glaeser
DTC 336 Multimedia Design / Prof Chris Dreger
Assignment was to create a logo for a fictional company.
