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Frightening people. That’s what Juan Lopez had in mind when he put his exhibit together. “My goal was to scare people, as well as be able to use a new version of magic lanterns to project the material,” Lopez said. “The idea was to reflect the pictorial qualities of the phantasmagoria.” The exhibit in question […]

Due to declining enrollment, reduced retention rates and a lack of reserve funds, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is considering cuts to academic staff. According to Margo Anderson, a distinguished professor who sits on the University Committee, less students and less funding equals less instructors. “It’s not that anybody wants to lay somebody off. It’s just […]

Dirk Hoyer, lecturer at the Tallinn Baltic Film and Media School and internationally award-winning filmmaker, is a firm believer that social media users are, to some extent, narcissistic. He calls social media an “ego machine.” There is no denying it- social media is everywhere, and people are producing and consuming content more than ever before. […]

Nick Fitzpatrick was busy building a gumball machine in 7th grade shop class when an anxious teacher wheeled a television into the room and turned on the news to scenes of a single burning tower. “I knew something bad was happening by how shocked and anxious my teacher was,” he says. “But even after the […]

Ghoulish laughs and blood curdling screams echoed through the halls of UW-Milwaukee’s Mitchell Hall on Saturday, Oct. 19 as guests made their way through the haunted house on the building’s third floor. The new public event to campus was organized by Peck School of the Arts students who collaborated to frighten guests to raise funds […]