For my audio tour I will be digging deep into Reno's crime history to provide an immersive audio experience at one of our city's most infamous arson locations.

Have you ever stopped and listened to the sounds around you? Some sounds are more ubiquitous than others. Some remain with you throughout your entire day, resinating in your ears as you move from home to school, or from school to work. This assignment encapsulates the sounds currently found in my life.

Over the next few months, I will be posting blog updates in regards to my projects and reviews for Joseph DeLappe's ART 345 Digital Media II (Sound and Image) class at the University of Nevada, Reno. This class is a continuation of ART 245 Intro to Digital Media that I took a few semesters ago.

There are a lot of great and very unique digital media artists in the world. For this paper, I will be doing a comparison between Maurice Benayoun and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Both are still-living, electronic art artists that we have not covered in class. I discovered them from within the links provided to us for this assignment, which then sent me on a path of thorough research and exploration to learn more about each of these amazing artists.

Throughout the 2015 Spring semester, we were asked to attend two artist lectures and two exhibitions/performances or film screenings. These are my critical summaries of all four of these events.

Most people associate the word Utopia with the future. However, in order to get to the future, we must get through the past. That is the basis for my 3D Modeling the Utopia project.

This is a creative re-design (with new content of a political or satirical nature) to an existing commercial web page. Our objective was to create a work that serves as a visual, cultural critique through the appropriation and re-purposing of the design of an existing web page.

Technology opens up a whole new world of possibilities for art, especially in regards to interaction with the viewer and letting them make art of their own.