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Chiasm, Christine Heusner
Chiasm, Christine Heusner
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This thesis explores the convergence and divergence between the mind and multimedia environment as perceptions are formed. The digitally constructed representation of the space investigated in the thesis work illustrates an abstract impression of the modern environment, somewhere between the real and the imaginary, the actual and the representational. The installation of the thesis images, off the gallery walls and at varying levels throughout the space, encourages the viewers to question realities and perception. I discuss the creation of the thesis work through a variety of different processes and media, both digital and traditional, and how this mimics environmental reality. …
Novel Low Power Cam Architecture, Ka Fai Ng
Novel Low Power Cam Architecture, Ka Fai Ng
Theses
One special type of memory use for high speed address lookup in router or cache address lookup in a processor is Content Addressable Memory (CAM). CAM can also be used in pattern recognition applications where a unique pattern needs to be determined if a match is found. CAM has an additional comparison circuit in each memory bit compared to Static Random Access Memory. This comparison circuit provides CAM with an additional capability for searching the entire memory in one clock cycle. With its hardware parallel comparison architecture, it makes CAM an ideal candidate for any high speed data lookup or …
A Natural History, Jessica Marquez
A Natural History, Jessica Marquez
Theses
A Natural History is an installation that creates the atmosphere of a miniature museum and has as its focus familial, autobiographical content. This “museum” appropriates its format from the ethnographic museum and cabinets of curiosities, which provide an institutional gaze and appeal to a sensibility of imagination and wonder. Major themes addressed include the public and private collection, art and science, and systems of ordering. Exploring these themes offers a means to visualize concepts of identity and memory. To make tangible that which is ephemeral, such as the past, identity and memory, I use objects, images and words as mimetic …
Collector, Larissa Cleveland
Collector, Larissa Cleveland
Theses
This thesis compliments my photographic investigation into an individual and societal preoccupation with collecting and the narrative or symbolic power of objects. My experiences as a child surrounded by my father’s mass collection of civil war artifacts prompted my continued interest in the pursuit of collecting and also to question the nature of hobby versus obsession. In this paper, I consider the personal and social conditions present in Western society that inform an inherent need to possess, create order, gain status, knowledge and to preserve. I discuss the creation of a persona through possession, but also question to what extent …
Angle Of Repose, Toni Pepe
Angle Of Repose, Toni Pepe
Theses
This thesis explores the notion of loss as an overarching theme for the examination of memory and the feminine as constructed tools for identity. Certain paradigms related to gendered roles, domesticity, femininity and the female psyche are investigated. The thesis also addresses ideas within Lacanian theory; concentrating on the male gaze, female representation and the artist as both photographer and subject. Absence and presence are also significant themes, as both narrative tools and as inherent photographic characteristics. The idea of loss is further emphasized by absence/presence within the photograph, calling to mind the relationship of the photograph to memory.