the Incredible Hulk. To create this life-sized structure, Conner scanned the figurine with a laser and used a computer program to enlarge the image to the seven-foot scale of the Incredible Hulk, creat- ing an on-screen-digital mold. He then used a computer-controlled router to cut the various "body" parts from the EPS foam, and spent a full day assembling "Bruce/Hulk." The work of another student, Sam Yates, is displayed as a floor- to-ceiling banner of a seven-story filing cabinet. At first a viewer might think it is a digital creation. C olumbia U niversity RECORD May 22, 2002 9 Ten 2002-2003 Knight-Bagehot Fellows Named by Graduate School of Journalism Ten Knight-Bagehot Fellows in Economics and Business Journal- ism have been named by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. They include journalists from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dow Jones Newswires, Forbes, Time Maga- zine, Black Enterprise Magazine, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) and the Financial Times. The mid-career fellowships provide full tuition and a living stipend of $40,000 for experi- enced journalists to take graduate courses at Columbia’s Schools of Business, Law, and International and Public Affairs. Fellows also attend special seminars at the Journalism School led by scholars and business experts during the nine-month program, which begins every year in August. The program is open to journalists with at least four years’ experi- ence. Founded in 1975, the fellows are named for John S. and James L. Knight, brothers who estab- lished the Knight Foundation, and Walter Bagehot (pronounced baj- et), the 19th-century British econ- omist and editor of The Econo- mist. They are administered by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and directed by Terri Thompson, a former associate editor of U.S. News & World Report and reporter for Business Week and a graduate of the pro- gram. Funds are provided by an endowment from the Knight Foundation and by grants from foundations and corporations, which have included The New York Times, The Starr Founda- tion, Reuters Foundation, Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc., the World Bank, Citigroup and NAS- DAQ Education Foundation. The 2002-2003 Knight-Bage- hot Fellows in Economics and Business Journalism are: Mickey Butts, 33, is a free- lance book editor and magazine writer in San Francisco. His writ- ing has appeared in such publica- tions as Salon, The Nation, Wired, the Financial Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was a founder and executive editor at The Industry Standard, and previ- ously was assistant managing edi- tor at Parenting magazine and managing editor of the East Bay Monthly. He has a master’s of journalism degree from the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in com- parative literature from Brown University. Marilen A. Cawad, 28, is a news reporter/producer for GMA Network in the Philippines and a contributing correspondent for CNN World Report. She graduat- ed from University of the Philip- pines in 1995 with a degree in broadcast communication and has since worked for GMA, the lead- ing broadcast organization in the country and local partner of CNN. She has covered various issues ranging from political affairs to the environment and, since 1998, has concentrated on the business beat. Lauren Coleman-Lochner, 39, is the retail reporter for The Record (Bergen County, N.J.), where she has worked since 1994. She started there as a part-time editorial assistant after freelanc- ing for publications including The Daily News and the Charlotte Observer. She has earned degrees from the University of Pennsyl- vania, Rutgers University and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and is an active mem- ber of the Columbia Journalism Alumni Association’s executive board. Carleen Hawn, 31, is an asso- ciate editor at Forbes covering enterprise software and venture capital from the Silicon Valley bureau. A graduate of Barnard College, she began her career in 1993 as a reporter/fact-checker for the New York Observer and joined Forbes in 1996 as a reporter. She was rapidly promot- ed to senior reporter and then again to staff writer before mov- ing two years ago to California, where she created the magazine’s "Midas List," an annual index of the 100 most influential venture capitalists. Tim Larimer, 42, joined Time in 1996 as the weekly magazine’s Hanoi bureau chief and in 1999 became its Tokyo bureau chief. He received a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1982 and then wrote for the San Jose Mercury News for eight years. He has freelanced from Washington, D.C., for Washing- ton Post Magazine and from Viet- nam for The New York Times and The Economist magazine before joining Time. Leon Lazaroff, 40, is a senior writer for The Daily Deal and for the past three years has covered mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications and energy industries. Previously, he has reported from Madrid, Spain, for the Associated Press, from Hous- ton for the Houston Post, and from Hermosillo, Mexico, for The Arizona Daily Star. He has also freelanced from New York City and from Mexico City for many newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Observer, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He graduat- ed with a B.A. in History from University of Wisconsin in 1985. Emilie Lounsberry, 47, is legal affairs reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer where she’s been reporting since 1982. While a student at Temple University, where she graduated in 1979 with a B.A. in journalism, she started out covering trials for the Daily Intelligencer in suburban Philadelphia. She worked briefly at the Philadelphia Bulletin before it folded and was then hired by the Inquirer. Raphael Minder, 30, is the Paris correspondent for Ft.com, the online service of Financial Times. Before joining the FT in 2000, he reported seven years for Bloomberg News from Zurich, Brussels and Madrid. A native of Switzerland, he is fluent in Eng- lish, French, German and Span- ish, and earned a B.A. honors degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Queen’s College, Oxford University, in 1992. Amit Prakash, 35, reports on economics, foreign exchange and banking from Singapore as senior correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires. He joined Dow Jones in 1996 as a correspondent based in New Delhi, and transferred to Singapore in 1998. After receiv- ing a B.A. in economics from the University of Delhi, India, he started his career in 1989 as a junior reporter with the Indian Post in New Delhi. Over the next seven years, he worked for lead- ing publications, including the magazine Illustrated Weekly of India, The Pioneer (newspaper) and Outlook magazine. From India, he also freelanced for UK’s Sunday Telegraph and wrote a column for Pakistan’s News on Sunday. Sakina Spruell, 31, is a senior editor at Black Enterprise, respon- sible for assigning and editing business news stories and content for the magazine’s Web site. Pre- viously she worked as a staff writer at the Home News Tribune and as a reporter and producer with New Jersey’s CNN Headline News Local Edition. Her career includes stints as a Weekend News Anchor at National Public Radio, WBLS-FM (N.Y.) radio and the Sally Jessie Raphael Show. She is a 1993 graduate of Rutgers University. Applications for the 2003-2004 academic year are now being accepted. For information, call (212)854-6840, send an e-mail message to [email protected] or visit the Web site at www.jrn.columbia.edu/knight- bagehot. “Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics and Busi- ness Journalism” (Columbia Uni- versity Press) draws on the expe- riences of 40 of the nation's finest journalists and serves as a com- prehensive guide to writing about business and economics. The book's contributors—all alumni of the Knight-Bagehot Fellow- ship—include reporters and edi- tors from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week and Barron's as well as business executives and consul- tants, academics and authors. The book is available from online and regular bookstores, or from Columbia University Press at 800-944-8648. Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition in Mink Building Depicts ‘New’Face of Contemporary Art Artists today do not generally limit themselves to one medium; rather they use the one that best expresses their ideas. Or they mix several media in the same work. In the Visual Arts program at Colum- bia’s School of the Arts, painters, photographers, sculptors, print- makers and video artists collabo- rate and communicate their ideas with each other. Examples of this interaction can be seen throughout the 2002 Visual Arts Thesis Exhi- bition, currently on view in the Mink Building (Amsterdam at 126th Street) through May 26. "I am in awe of the talent and ambition of the 23 graduating MFA candidates whose work is on display in this exhibition," says Visual Arts Chair Jon Kessler. "They are a charmed and fero- ciously talented lot and I have no doubt that their collective spirit will help to change the landscape of contemporary art. This exhibi- tion depicts what ‘new’ really looks like." Among the paintings on display are three of Tom McGrath’s 56- by-90-inch urban landscapes. In these oil paintings, McGrath cre- ates the illusion of looking through the windshield of a car in bad weather, arousing feelings of melancholy and potential danger. Photographer Lila Subramanian bases her series of six iris prints on the closing couplets in Milton’s "Paradise Lost," which she describes as a series of oppositions and contradictions that create a tone of ambivalence and uncer- tainty rather than an image of finality and closure. "My prints hover between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the near and the far, here and there, posing the question where do we find our frontiers in the vastly urbanized contemporary land- scape," explains Subramanian. "The work seeks an oasis, out-of- bounds, a kind of visual relief. Details from the landscape that are markers of time and place are dig- itally removed from the pho- tographs in an attempt to de-con- textualize the environment. These places of referential absence are also platforms upon which viewers can project their own narratives." Demonstrating how today’s artists work in a variety of media, Jon Conner has three works on display in this exhibition – the painting "Pigeons," the digital video "Wave" and "Bruce/Hulk," a seven-foot EPS styrofoam sculp- ture. The later is based on an eight-inch figurine of Bruce Lee that at first glance he mistook for Lila Subramanian’s iris print “Untitled” is one in her series on display. BY TERRI THOMPSON BY KRISTIN STERLING But Yates includes blueprints, structural engineering designs and a Guinness World Record certifi- cate for the "tallest file cabinet (sculpture)" as documentation of his 21,000-pound sculpture. Inside the filing cabinet are 1,862 pieces of a shredded MG midget sports car that Yates steam- rolled himself and then labeled and filed by weight, in milligrams, from heaviest to lightest. In doing so Yates says he "reduced the MG sports car to its most mundane value -- milligrams (mg)." The sculpture is located in Napa, CA, on the property of a collector who was interested in it when the three- story version was displayed in a show in Berkley. These are just a few examples of the photography, painting, print- making, sculpture, installation, video and performance that com- prise the 2002 Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition. As part of Columbia and the School of the Arts’ commitment to Upper Manhattan, the exhibition is on view in the first floor of the Mink Building, 1361 Amsterdam Avenue (at 126th Street), Wednes- day through Sunday from noon to 6:00 p.m., through May 26. The now vacant Mink Building was formerly the home of a fur factory and a brewery. Upon request Greg Martin, one of the students partici- pating in the exhibition and work- ing from the exhibition site, also offers tours of the building.