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Vox Machinal : The Voice In The Machine, Phoebe Hiltermann
Vox Machinal : The Voice In The Machine, Phoebe Hiltermann
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
A radio play and foray into the psychosis of a woman through sound, dance, and puppetry.
Ripple, Tyler P. Haney
Ripple, Tyler P. Haney
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
My work leverages the dynamic processes the brain uses to compute visual stimuli to influence how viewers experience my work. My aim is to create a ripple effect as the brain processes the visual information I provide.
My process begins with a camera. Focusing on the face, I see how much contextual information I can remove while still capturing the emotional expression of the subject. Before long, a photograph ends up next to a canvas where I will rebuild the image from the photograph using a myriad of expressionistic marks and colors to amplify the emotion.
Recognizing human emotion is …
Kingdom Compossible, Ryan Lauterio
Kingdom Compossible, Ryan Lauterio
Theses and Dissertations
Does God exist? Can we know for sure? What might it mean to know this? Furthermore what might it look like to make works of art while also seeking to find answers to these questions? This thesis details my personal experiences growing up in a world steeped in postmodernism and my move to answer such questions while looking to develop a meaningful, clear worldview and body of work. I have turned my focus on specific episodes in my life, which significantly illuminate a progression of thinking and experience. Together these thoughts and experiences have become the impetus for both questions …
Abstract Expressionism: An American Phenomenon, Judee Thompson Royston
Abstract Expressionism: An American Phenomenon, Judee Thompson Royston
Honors Theses
One of the newest types of painting in the modern tradition is Abstract Expressionism. It began in New York around 1944. All the experience of Americans with modern art had been poured into the melting pot of the city. Present were not only eminent native artists, but also Europeans with established reputations--refugees from Fascist Spain Nazi Germany, and Occupied France. Their meetings with each other brought about interchanges on all levels of thought and practice. Out of this mixture came not an adaptation of a trend formalized abroad but a new style of painting created in America.
It is true …