About the 15th Annual Digital Symposium
The Florida State University Digital Studio is proud and excited to present our fifteenth annual Digital Symposium. Every spring semester, the Symposium allows us to showcase digital projects across scholarship, coursework, and pedagogy that have been completed in 2023 by people associated with FSU. The included works demonstrate the rich potential of digital composition for students, teachers, and researchers across multiple mediums and platforms.
This year, we chose to emphasize the interconnected nature of digital composing. To that end, the theme of this Symposium is “Natural Networks,” which focuses on the metaphor of fungi and their massive rhizomatic root systems as our digital devices, with deep, snarled connections giving rise both to the visible pieces of technology we use and to individual digital compositions that sprout up from networks of skill and knowledge. Each individual piece showcased here represents one manifestation of the ever-growing networks of digital resources and knowledge bases that folks at FSU are able to tap into, and each viewing of this website represents an entrance into those networks. We encourage you to peruse this site on your own time and hope you will view the showcased projects with the same care that each composer put into their work. Along with this website, we will also be having an in-person open house at the FSU Digital Studio on April 3rd from 10-4 to celebrate this year’s Symposium and all of the wonderful submissions. Please feel free to join us on the ground floor of the Johnston Building in suite G062 if you are able.
We would like to express our utmost gratitude and appreciation to everyone whose work is featured in this Symposium, and to the instructors who nominated student projects: Angela Donahue, Ann Caroline Chiodo, Anwen Jones, Ashleah Wimberly, Bridgette Sanders, Dr. Candace Ward, Dr. Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, Dr. Michael Neal, Dr. Tarez Graban, Kris Rafferty, Lauren Reilly, Marcia Bronstein, Shelby Ramsey, and Sophia Ziemer.
Additionally, we wish to thank the 15th Annual Digital Symposium Team of Anwen Jones, Daniel Stefanelli, Sophia Ziemer, Oliver Brooks, Casie Minot, Megan Smith, Claire Kirchner, Giana Nardelli, Joseph Cress, Lindsey Anderson, Brielle Gorrell, and Tiffany Palumbo for all of their effort in collecting and organizing submissions, designing this website and social media materials, and making this showcase of student work happen.
Digital Symposium Coordinator: Anwen Jones | Anwen developed the creative and inspirational theme behind this year's symposium. Anwen's ideas energized the Digital Studio team to create original designs that aligned with the symposium's vision and brought the theme of Natural Networks to life. Anwen collected over 100 submissions for this year's symposium, established the website design, and uploaded the majority of student projects.
Poster designed by: Daniel Stefanelli, Sophia Ziemer, Casie Minot, Oliver Brooks, and Giana Nardelli | Canva was used to conceptualize and design several iterations of large- and small-scale poster designs for this year's symposium.
Original logo designed by: Dr. Kamila Albert, Oliver Brooks, Sophia Ziemer, Casie Minot, and Brielle Gorrell | Canva was used to organize the conceptual aspects of the logo. Adobe Illustrator was used to design the final logo that combined layers of digital illustrations, freehand illustrations, and typography.