transmedia + collaboration with the University of Dundee

November 1 – December 1, 2023

Reception
Monday, November 13th
2:00 – 3:00pm

This showcase features sequential artworks created at Penn State Abington and the University of Dundee in Scotland. These schools collaborate on a broadly defined exploration of transmedia storytelling, which grew out of work each had done independently on this topic in the time prior to the start of their partnership in 2018.

The exhibition centers on Steampunk Carnival, the creative output from a collaboration and study abroad visit to Dundee in Fall 2023, but it also includes a history of prior collaboration and independent work. Prominently featured are publications created by Dundee for the Being Human Festival, an annual celebration of the humanities in the U.K., which will be occurring at the same time as the exhibition.

Professors Mary Modeen of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and Chris Murray, chair of Comics Studies in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law, are the twin engines that power the collaboration in Dundee.

To learn more about the work and study abroad programming that supports it, contact William Cromar,  Associate Teaching Professor in Art, williamcromar@psu.edu or Stephen Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in English, uuc91@psu.edu.