A Question of Perception
Media artist Regi Allen uses video and photography to explore the community's perception of black culture. While in residence, he received a grant to document Pittsburgh Urban League's trip to Africa and negotiated a landmark agreement with public television station WQED to utilize state-of-the-art editing equipment for community projects. In addition, he offered video workshops with children at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Homewood Montessori school.

Art History Learning Environment
Former School of Art faculty member and administrator, Mary Schmidt, utilized multimedia and web technologies to create a robust learning environment on the subject of art history. She worked in partnership with the TELab (Technology Enhanced Learning Laboratory) at Carnegie Mellon and was supported by a university courseware development grant and Carnegie Mellon On-Line.


Acid Mine Drainage and Art Project
A community enhancement initiative in Western Pennsylvania to bring broad public participation to the construction of treatment systems to clean up Acid Mine Drainage (metals-laden water which seeps out of abandoned coal mines and coats stream beds with orange sediment)--and to create enjoyable, educational, park-like community landscapes in which to be at the same time. A sequential, three-site project will blend community history, innovative science, responsive landscape design and active community participation.


Building Electronic Communities
Pittsburgh artist Carolyn P. Speranza investigates the implications of the Internet as a public space for discourse and telecommunity building. In its application, this research led to the creation of Community Forums Online,featured in The Andy Warhol Museum's exhibition The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks. Speranza worked with a team of museum staff members to define, envision and recontextualize the museum's relationship to Internet technology. Speranza's residency was co-sponsored by The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and Technology where Speranza trained artists and arts organizations in the use of information technologies and web site development.


End of the Line: Building Bridges with Pittsburgh's Busways
A community-based artistic collaboration examining historic and contemporary issues in Pittsburgh's neighborhoods which resulted in the creation of five digital collages displayed on 20 Port Authority buses. These collages were designed to cross boundaries between neighborhoods symbolically in their unifying cultural themes and literally in their method of display on buses and placement on the World Wide Web. These themes were developed through artist-led workshops at Carnegie Branch libraries where participants contributed oral histories and photographs were taught how to make collages.


Nine Mile Run Greenway Project
This project connects the expertise and concerns of artists, scientists, engineers, historians, ecologists and planners in a broad-ranging interdisciplinary effort to address the challenges and opportunities faced in transforming an urban, industrial waste site in Pittsburgh into a sustainable environment of private housing and public greenspace.
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Pittsburgh: A City Seen
This digital work extends "Pittsburgh Revealed," the highly successful exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art which showed historical and contemporary photographs of Pittsburgh. Project Director Charlee Brodsky, a documentary photographer, was one of the curators of the original exhibit. Supported by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, this project was carried out in partnership with the Carnegie Museum of Art.


Tracking the Human Brain
A team of artists, scientists and educators has created an interactive, multimedia planetarium presentation about the human brain. This show, Gray Matters: The Brain Movie, is a collaborative production of the STUDIO, the joint University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and Carnegie Science Center and was funded primarily by the National Science Foundation. The show's content is based on the latest brain research and linked to National Science Education Standards. Planetarium viewers are taken to a new dimension of "inner space" exploration and discovery, where they move and change images on screen