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Full Bloom: Diegetic Ui For Musical Phrases In Virtual Reality, Peter Armstrong, Elliot Cole, Peter Ferry, Joe Geigel, Susan Lakin, Richard Swientonioski, Zachary Talis, Jennie Thomas
Full Bloom: Diegetic Ui For Musical Phrases In Virtual Reality, Peter Armstrong, Elliot Cole, Peter Ferry, Joe Geigel, Susan Lakin, Richard Swientonioski, Zachary Talis, Jennie Thomas
Frameless
We propose a novel system for communicating musical note pitch and sequence information to users within a virtual reality environment. Our approach utilizes ‘Blooms,’ objects that resemble flowers with various petal arrangements. These formations, when constructed in view of users, act as diegetic, user-parsable encodings of their inputs. Blooms exist within the virtual space as simulated physics objects that collectively serve the role of a user interface.
Is It Real?, Hana Al-Saadi
Is It Real?, Hana Al-Saadi
Masters Theses
The architecture of Doha, Qatar is defined by skins of glass. When the sun shines upon the layers of glass, it creates a shimmery reflective grid across the surface of the city. These reflections, while visually intriguing, conceal many private realities behind the surface.
As a multidisciplinary artist, I attempt to maneuver in the space between the opacity of the facade and stories that lie behind. Specifically, I use this space to directly expose the contradictions that I encounter here.
Open Articulations, Matthew Bejtlich
Open Articulations, Matthew Bejtlich
Masters Theses
Open Articulations invites an exchange between human and environmental worlds through cycles of improvisation, reflection, and rebirth. It is a study of how exchanges emerge, what forms they can take, how they are mediated, and how we can sustain them with each other and with our surroundings. Through our coordinated immersion in landscapes and our spontaneous creation in them through frameworks encouraging play, we channel the spirit of a jazz drummer riffing with his midnight quartet, exchanging rhythms, images, sounds, movements, and textual fragments. A gentle breath, a flickering sensation, a gesture: expressions of a specific time rooted in a …
Yellow, Sisi Chen
Yellow, Sisi Chen
Theses and Dissertations
The following paper is a constellational unpacking of yellow through notes on critical race and feminist theories, myth, science, science fiction, disparate histories, cyborgs, biography, virtuality, materiality, fungi, porcelain, language, internalization, melancholia, smells, sounds, tastes, feels, and more feels.
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Questions guide my art practice, so they naturally guide the structure of this thesis.
Remember?
If I remember, what then?
What makes a memoir?
What is the work made of?
Nouns and adjectives—why have both?
What’s the role of sound?
How does the form of installation relate to memoir?
How do we take an installation from situation to story?
What happens in the studio?
What gets me to the studio in the first place?
What matters?
Objects have power. They hold the histories of their owners—or if they have not had previous owners, they at least carry the connotations of …