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Fear And Nostalgia In Immigration, Daniel A. Matthews
Fear And Nostalgia In Immigration, Daniel A. Matthews
Theses and Dissertations
Fear and Nostalgia in Immigration is a project that uses re-occuring memory and experiential memory to help us understand our common histories. The projects asks individuals to first share a re-occuring memory by writing it on a chalkboard. The next step is to then write an experiential memory about immigration, this can be a story you might have heard or it could be something from your own family history. These two tasks are done on a communal table where several individuals are engage in the same task at the same time. This aim of this exercise is to have something …
Deaccessioning The Studio, Ayla Rexroth
Deaccessioning The Studio, Ayla Rexroth
Theses and Dissertations
I have created several micro-businesses that provide tools and facilitate experiences to help people meet their potential. The form of the businesses has ranged from a street based art gallery inside the drawers of a modern dresser to a business that sews more and bigger pockets into women’s outerwear.
Private Conversation, Gahee Park
Private Conversation, Gahee Park
Theses and Dissertations
My thesis paper "Private Conversation" discusses the themes, contexts, and influences relevant to paintings and drawings I made during my MFA studies.
Negative Capability, Gabriela Vainsencher
Negative Capability, Gabriela Vainsencher
Theses and Dissertations
Negative Capability is video installation inspired by a series of recorded interviews with my mother, a Uruguayan psychoanalyst. Our talks revolved around dream interpretation, how meaning arises out of chaos, what to do when one doesn’t know what to do, and how to tell when something must end.
Art Beyond The Object? Art Beyond Grad School? (A Kickstarter Fundraiser): Help Me Complete My Mfa And Kickstart My Life As An Artist., Hsini D. Leary
Art Beyond The Object? Art Beyond Grad School? (A Kickstarter Fundraiser): Help Me Complete My Mfa And Kickstart My Life As An Artist., Hsini D. Leary
Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this paper and Kickstarter project is to enable the production of my last semester’s work and thesis exhibition, and also to aid in the post-graduation transition to a sustainable art practice that does not rely on the current gallery structure.
An Aesthetic Theory Of Gamesmanship, Derek A. Fordjour
An Aesthetic Theory Of Gamesmanship, Derek A. Fordjour
Theses and Dissertations
An Aesthetic Theory of Gamesmanship is an in-depth analysis of the personal, sociological, and historical elements contained within the art of Derek Fordjour with considerations given to artistic and literary influences that inform his intention and goals in the work. Also included are illustrations of specific art works and descriptions.
Digital Photography As Experience Artifact, Ryan V. Brennan
Digital Photography As Experience Artifact, Ryan V. Brennan
Theses and Dissertations
Through the screen interface, the boundary between personal and collective experience is being redefined both spatially and temporally. Here, memories are given independent mediated existence, taking form in digital photographic artifacts that can be communally shared and manipulated into a synthetic continuum.
Hohoemigaeshi (Smiling Back), Takayuki Kubota
Hohoemigaeshi (Smiling Back), Takayuki Kubota
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the work, Hohoemigaeshi, the author’s journey to smile back to the things he has come across - in order to say good-bye.
On Negotiating Between The Virtual And Material In Art Historical Reproduction, Zorawar S. Sidhu
On Negotiating Between The Virtual And Material In Art Historical Reproduction, Zorawar S. Sidhu
Theses and Dissertations
A discussion of the role of art historical reproduction in the works of Nicholas Poussin and the theories of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, in relation to artworks by Zorawar Sidhu.
A Performative Script: Play With(In) Me, Erik Patton
A Performative Script: Play With(In) Me, Erik Patton
Theses and Dissertations
Patton continues his interest in the body, its relation to material, the notion of abstraction (specifically related to queerness), and the phenomenological with this performative script. Enter the bath first; you must wash your dirty asshole, as you shat only two hours ago. Collect your body in the Silver Pond.
Cruelty: Aesthetics, Narrative, And Invented Worlds, Sarah Slappey
Cruelty: Aesthetics, Narrative, And Invented Worlds, Sarah Slappey
Theses and Dissertations
Sarah Slappey investigates ideas of cruelty and beauty through the lense of narrative, aesthetics, and invented worlds.
A Portrait Of The Artist As Sisyphus, Jared N. Crane
A Portrait Of The Artist As Sisyphus, Jared N. Crane
Theses and Dissertations
In this thesis statement, contemporary artist Jared Nathan Crane uses the French philosopher Albert Camus’ essay The Myth of Sisyphus as a framework for discussing meaningfulness in art and life, and reflects on how his own experimental creative process evolved during his graduate studies.
Nothing Behind The Sun, Sebastian Fierro Castro
Nothing Behind The Sun, Sebastian Fierro Castro
Theses and Dissertations
painting as a containment exercise, and as such, a tool that allows us to interiorize the world