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Firefights, friendships and Fortnite

Max Towers February 21, 2018

As the storm rages inward and your team forges ahead, there are few greater feelings than performing as a single unit in order to achieve victory. Fortnite, the highly popular third-person shooter videogame,...

Artists collaborate in alternative studio class

Artists collaborate in alternative studio class

Gabriella Garriga February 8, 2018

Seafoam green. So much seafoam green. Beverly Morabito, junior art student, sat on her stool in her Alternative Studio Practices class next to her fellow students, who were also painting. The object...

Screenshot of the 2005 video game, "F.E.A.R."

Aesthetics of video games

Gabriel Levine February 7, 2018

Last week I wrote about the role of choice in videogames as a storytelling medium. This week I’m going to address videogames as a visual art. For the last two decades, a large focus for major games...

Point/Counterpoint: Games aren't sports, they're art

Point/Counterpoint: Games aren’t sports, they’re art

Noelle Barrera February 6, 2018

In another opinion piece in this week's Trinitonian, Tiffany Nguyen, William Ballengee and Rachel Lopez claim that online competitive “Esport” games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League...

Sophomore Alexandra Parris crochets in the CSI building. After taking up crocheting in 2016, Parris began offering her skills to other students at a small price. photo by Stephen Sumrall-Orsak

Making art and making money

Kara Killinger January 31, 2018

Alexandra Parris began crocheting in November of 2016. Her great-uncle had recently passed away, and she was wandering the bright aisles of Walmart late at night, looking for groceries and perhaps something...

“Taboo,” a project by ALEX MOTTER and QUINN BENDER. The art installation focueses on how fashion and the restrictions placed around it directly affects how identities are permitted to be expressed. photo by AMANI CANADA, photo editor

Identity and external perspective explored in the “Mini”

Georgie Riggs January 31, 2018

In Julia Poage’s piece, “The America I’ve Inherited,” one of her three graphic novel-style drawings exhibited in the "Mini," she defines the phrase the '1.5 generation.' This term generally refers...

Ariel Del Vecchio and Abigail Wharton's "Constructed Religiosity," on display as part of the Mini exhibit in Dicke-Smith until Feb 12, 2018. photo by Amani Canada.

Don’t play identity politics with people you don’t know

Abigail Wharton January 24, 2018

Co-signed by Ariel del Vecchio. Ariel del Vecchio and I are presenting a mixed media installation piece titled “Constructed Religiosity” at the Mini, a student art exhibition in Trinity’s own Neidorff...

Ariel Del Vecchio and Abigail Wharton's "Constructed Religiosity," on display as part of the Mini exhibit in Dicke-Smith until Feb 12, 2018. photo by Amani Canada.

Students’ art is an appropriative, white feminist mess

Cristina Treviño January 24, 2018

When you visit the "Mini," Trinity's annual competitive art exhibition featuring the work of nine students, don't be fooled by the prayer candles and altar, the messages of female empowerment on "prayer...

graphic by Tyler Herron

From the Editors’ Desk: Controversy ignites insight

Editorial Staff January 24, 2018

Most weeks, the opinion pages of the Trinitonian are filled with only our staff writers’ voices, supplemented by the occasional faculty columnist. In itself, that’s no problem — we employ talented...

“This War of Mine” screenshot depicting the repercussions of player decisions during gameplay.

Videogames recreate moral realities of modern war

Gabriel Levine January 24, 2018

One of the great values of art, film, photography and literature is that they are our only means, outside of direct experience, of grasping and confronting the reality of war, history and ideology. Videogames...

photo by Stephen Sumrall-Orsak, staff photographer

Trinity hires new gallery manager

Maggie Lupo January 17, 2018

The bright, airy Michael and Noemi Neidorff Gallery inside Trinity’s Dicke-Smith building stands empty right now. Soon, though, the gallery will display its first show of the semester, under the direction...

graphic by Andrea Nebhut

Pop art history: Peggy Phelan speaks on Andy Warhol

Abigail Wharton December 4, 2017

Students, faculty, staff and assorted lecture attendees filled every seat and parts of the floor within the Chapman Great Hall the evening of Nov. 14 to hear Peggy Phelan speak as a part of the Stieren...