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Asakusa ~ Gateway To The Floating World (2019), Theory & History Of Art & Design Department, Elena Varshavskaya (H791 Instructor)
Asakusa ~ Gateway To The Floating World (2019), Theory & History Of Art & Design Department, Elena Varshavskaya (H791 Instructor)
Ukiyo-e Prints Course | Exhibition Catalogs
"Asakusa, a bustling district of Japan’s capital, emerged as a heart of city life during the Edo period (1603-1868). Its popularity continued after Edo was renamed Tokyo in 1868 soon after the beginning of the Meiji era. ...
Thus, Asakusa came to function as a physical and metaphorical path to and site of ukiyo – ‘the floating world,’ an Edo period term, referring to the modern habits and aspirations of townspeople. The notion of ukiyo embraced the lifestyle of city dwellers, their pleasure-seeking, vanity and devotion, intellectual sophistication and playfulness. All this was captured with remarkable exactitude in the ‘pictures …
Manual / Issue 13 / Storage, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Christina Alderman, Isaac M. Alderman, A.H. Jerriod Avant, Matthew Bird, Hannah Carlson, Wai Yee Chiong, John Dunnigan, Maria Morris Hambourg, David Hartt, Elaine Tyler May, Claire Mccardell, Denise Murrell, Ingrid Schaffner, Holly Schaffer, Tanya Sheehan, John W. Smith, Mimi Smith, Sassan Tabatabai, Allan Wexler, Fred Wilson
Manual / Issue 13 / Storage, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Christina Alderman, Isaac M. Alderman, A.H. Jerriod Avant, Matthew Bird, Hannah Carlson, Wai Yee Chiong, John Dunnigan, Maria Morris Hambourg, David Hartt, Elaine Tyler May, Claire Mccardell, Denise Murrell, Ingrid Schaffner, Holly Schaffer, Tanya Sheehan, John W. Smith, Mimi Smith, Sassan Tabatabai, Allan Wexler, Fred Wilson
Journals
Manual, a journal about art and its making. Storage. Manual 13 opens with an introduction by Fred Wilson, who confides, “You can look at all the opulence on display in a museum and begin to understand that something nefarious might be behind it. Storage, for me, is where the action is.” "Museums usually make choices for viewers, their curators presenting what they think most important within a category. They can be so good at doing this that visitors sometimes don’t realize there’s anything else to see: they don’t realize the nature of the decisions behind an exhibition, and they accept …
The Movement In Nature : Deep Missing, Missing You From Far Away, Chia-Chi Wu
The Movement In Nature : Deep Missing, Missing You From Far Away, Chia-Chi Wu
Masters Theses
The Movements in Nature
Soft waves, soft clouds, soft grass,
In the ocean, in the sky, on the ground. Mellow, smooth, satisfying,
No sharpness, no harm, just round circles.
Imagination of the mixture of the nature.
The Moment Someone Opens A Book, A Venus Flytrap Is Tightening Its Cage, Chenlu Hou
The Moment Someone Opens A Book, A Venus Flytrap Is Tightening Its Cage, Chenlu Hou
Masters Theses
his thesis examines transitions as a form of transformation.
In-Between Places, Jonah Fleeger
In-Between Places, Jonah Fleeger
Masters Theses
I am an emerging artist originally from Northwest Indiana. I attended a small boarding school called Verde Valley School, in Sedona, Arizona, which is where my love for pottery first started. I received my BFA in ceramics from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After college I was fortunate enough to find studio space and work at the Lillstreet Art Center, where I was a teacher, teaching assistant and glaze maker. Since then I have completed post-baccalaureate programs at The University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. This book is a presentation of myself …
Works And Process, Alex Hsu
Works And Process, Alex Hsu
Masters Theses
This thesis is a collection of furniture and objects that seek to embody the harmonious pleasantness of things through thoughtful consideration of their aesthetics, utility, and place. It reflects on the ownership and creation of objects and the role they play defining who we are. More specifically, it’s a reflection on how where I’ve come from and learning how to create have influenced these complex ideas. It’s a document that looks inward and serves as a manifestation of my developing process and its effects on my identity as a result. It grapples with my desire to create things that are …
Externalized : Origins Of Aesthetic Motivations, Tim Miller
Externalized : Origins Of Aesthetic Motivations, Tim Miller
Masters Theses
My thoughts and behaviors are influenced by a compulsive disorder. Observing this, I’ve learned how much my outlook can be shaped by my own ritualistic patterns. I live with a heightened sense of awareness toward my particular compulsions which has shaped how I see the world. In this thesis writing and collection of designed objects, I am seeking to further explore my own experience with compulsive thoughts and behaviors, unpacking how they manifest in the day-to-day, how they direct my perception, and ultimately how they serve as a driving force behind my design process. By observing these tendencies and articulating …
Train Boy, Shannon Gross
Train Boy, Shannon Gross
Masters Theses
This thesis tells the story of the author's interactions with the hallucinatory figure of Train Boy.
Sky Is Sinking Below The Trees : Two Years Of Documentation And Observations, Xuelun Li
Sky Is Sinking Below The Trees : Two Years Of Documentation And Observations, Xuelun Li
Masters Theses
I see landscape through my own eyes, hands and body, and also through the lenses of Chinese poetry, calligraphy and ink painting. These art forms are rich in metaphor. The way they imagine and depict landscape is romantic, often including observations on dual concepts as lightness and heaviness, movement and stillness, change and stability, all of which have inspired this collection of work.
These furniture pieces include benches, tables and lamps. They are abstracted landscapes, to spark imagination about natural forces and transformations, both through the process with which they’ve been made and through their final forms. I engage with …
American Slavic : And Other Writings, Zac Banik
American Slavic : And Other Writings, Zac Banik
Masters Theses
My current cycle of work deals with the exploration, digestion and reinvigoration of traditional Slavic craft and material culture with goal of contributing to a contemporary design vernacular which eschews the idealization of Western-European forms and stands on its own: aesthetically discrete and externally respected. This line of inquiry arose from my own journey to understand myself as a Slavic-American; what it means to be such a thing; how to reconcile assimilation against perceived authentic identity and what value the voice of the diaspora can bring to the discourse of the old world. The outward mission of this project is …
Glossary I : Graduate Thesis, Eli Backer
Glossary I : Graduate Thesis, Eli Backer
Masters Theses
Situated across various contexts and spaces– studio, domestic, gallery– Eli Backer’s work explores open collaboration with machines, often producing multiples to reflect on, obfuscate, and to futilely hold the space and shape of loss. In this text, she surveys radio stations, music, writing, and art that has formed and driven her practice and sets a framework for the limited continuation of this document.
Throngs, Yinan Chen
Throngs, Yinan Chen
Masters Theses
Ceramic is an important element of my artworks. It is a material with strong bearing capacity, and at the same time, it is a tool with the attribute of nature and social function, for the similarity with humans can be found in it. Thanks to its characteristics, I am able to transform the forms, colors, and quality to complete my works. Collected from nature, carved with human hands, the clay is cultivated and my expectation of the outside world is satisfied.
Mis Jarrones, Marco Sebastián Arroyo Hoebens
Mis Jarrones, Marco Sebastián Arroyo Hoebens
Masters Theses
This thesis offers an insight into the complex relationship between identity, memory and the creative process. A Q&A follows, designed to deepen the understanding of the self in different situations, places, cultures and design objects.
Apparently, memory has a leading role in triggering creative processes and this has forced me to do further research on my own past and on the objects that my memory retains. In the end, this “research on the self” has produced an interesting view on this particular creative process of designing.
Grid As A Frame, Young In Sa
Grid As A Frame, Young In Sa
Masters Theses
A grid is a type of framework applied to an area in order to articulate information through coordinates and units. Nowadays, the world we experience has become overwhelmed by digital displays. How can we perceive the different form of reality when both experience and our perspective are shaped by digital representation? What if our life continues in virtual topography where I can see my GPS location, or in a rectangular camera frame instead of on the spherical earth? I walk with my feet touching the ground and I see the landscape around me, but still, now, I navigate myself in …
Interface Philosophy, June Yoon
Interface Philosophy, June Yoon
Masters Theses
During a Grad Studio II crit in the spring of 2018, I presented my project Measurements of Space and Time (page 132) and right after I finished, someone said, “This is like interface philosophy.” I didn’t even know what that meant, but it just felt right. At that very moment, I knew Interface Philosophy would be the title of my thesis.
Interface Philosophy was built as much as it was written and designed. Its function is to define “interface philosophy.” To describe interface as a meeting point for communication; philosophy as a cognitive reasoning of structural patterns. What I have …
Plenty : Wanting, Choosing,, Overwhelming Unloading, Christopher Cote
Plenty : Wanting, Choosing,, Overwhelming Unloading, Christopher Cote
Masters Theses
We seek well-being from products and fall prey to the media that promotes them to determine our wants and needs as equal. Consumption becomes an obsession. At some point we accumulate so much that we feel the need to organize or cleanse what’s overwhelmed us.
To highlight the aesthetics of consumption, advertisement, and brand proliferation, I turn their tactics against themselves. Plenty: Wanting, Choosing, Overwhelming, Unloading explores, points out, embraces, and edits the complexity we live within. With the hope of better navigating the abundance of consumer choice and its visual bombardment, Plenty tracks and exposes the cycle of material …
Record : From Signal To Atmosphere, And The Spaces Between Silence And Noise, Amy Auman
Record : From Signal To Atmosphere, And The Spaces Between Silence And Noise, Amy Auman
Masters Theses
Record is both a noun and a verb. Its meaning shifts through pronunciation, beginning with our cognitive interpretation and then emerging as a translation that we project from our mouths. This thesis book is an artifact, or record, of the past two years of artistic inquiry. My work, however, lives through movement in time—it records my impulses. This thesis is merely an open archive.
A range of stimuli competes for our conscious attention. The signals we choose to notice emerge from the periphery of our atmosphere, which includes everything from noise to silence. I use design to amplify and alter …
The Line That Splits, Zahra Jewanjee
The Line That Splits, Zahra Jewanjee
Masters Theses
The body of work I have created since beginning my MFA has been informed and impacted by my research into various inter-connected subject matters: subcultural spaces, the behaviours of crowds, micro and macro and territories and systems. These have been the philosophical and conceptual rationale of my studio practice. Meditation on these concepts is an important part in the preliminary stages of my process and the praxis of my studio work has been to interpret and implement these ideas. In many ways, this process suggests its own direction. I had no exact endpoint in mind but wanted to be driven …
Spontaneous Laughter, Laughter Without Reason, Evan Gilbert
Spontaneous Laughter, Laughter Without Reason, Evan Gilbert
Masters Theses
What is the function of humor in today's society? What is the role of the comedian in increasingly clownish times? How does humor challenge power structures in contemporary life and art? How can painting deploy these methods in an effective manner?
The archetype of the trickster has appeared in myth and literature around the world for many centuries. In all instances it represents the disruptive side of the human imagination, a being that lives outside the rules of conventional behavior who seems to have hidden knowledge or secret understanding of how society truly functions. The archetype of the trickster can …
Conversations In 2019, Kit Howland
Conversations In 2019, Kit Howland
Masters Theses
This thesis is a collected series of interview questions and my responses. The topics include aesthetics, phenomenology, queerness, the void, distinctions between art and design, designing emotional content, scale, minimalism, duality, multiplicity, formalism, intellectualism, the experience of living with your work, the critique, presentational strategies, and otherness.
Stepping Aside, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez García
Stepping Aside, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez García
Masters Theses
Over time, our connection with materials has changed. Centuries ago, artists interacted with just one material for years, gradually integrating the knowledge of its different properties into their existing expertise. They were learning processes which were acquired through the sum of different personal experiences and the reciprocal action between artist and material. Now, times run fast; we are exposed to a wide range of materials, and knowledge is indirect. We learn through books or by copying established industry processes, replacing our practical experiences. New potentialities of material are not sought frequently, and we end up validating only what has already …
Human Artist, Nicholas Costantino
Human Artist, Nicholas Costantino
Masters Theses
This Artist Book details the author's thoughts on being an artist, his studio practice, and being human.
Supposing Truth Is A Woman, Chloe Wilwerding
Supposing Truth Is A Woman, Chloe Wilwerding
Masters Theses
This unbound print portfolio documents the author's spiritual search for meaning through text and image.
Pekka : Social Software To Improve In-Game Dynamics, Yu Mo
Pekka : Social Software To Improve In-Game Dynamics, Yu Mo
Masters Theses
Video games are like virtual cities. Similar to towns in the real world, virtual cities contain facilities and communities represented by game elements and players. There is a question for us: Can a game be a better city?
To answer the question, we need to understand what a good city looks like. Generally, a good city needs sound facilities and harmonious communities. Similar to a real city, we need to build more advanced game elements and peaceful game communities to make the game to be a better city. Games like Paragon have failed because they lacked game communities, even though …
Where We Are : Where We Thought We Were Going, Nathan Prebonick
Where We Are : Where We Thought We Were Going, Nathan Prebonick
Masters Theses
In this thesis I will discuss ideas of place, space and repurposing as they relate to my paintings. By tying these ideas back to specific hometown sites, I will trace the evolution of ideas back to their genesis to provide context for the aesthetics of the work. I reference the texts of Robert Smithson and Tim Cresswell, who wrote about transitive notions of place, as well as David Joselit, who’s “Painting Beside Itself” essay focused on painters concerned with the question of how painting enters a network. I hope to use these texts, in conjunction with personal descriptions of sites …
Personal Analysis Of The Relationship Of Artist To The Subject In Figurative Painting, Zuhal Feraidon
Personal Analysis Of The Relationship Of Artist To The Subject In Figurative Painting, Zuhal Feraidon
Masters Theses
The work for my thesis includes a series of medium-scale paintings on wood panel in oil and acrylic. In these, I depict my friends, my relatives, and myself in full-body portrait style. I use a complementary color palette. The humans within my paintings are presented within an environment that has shallow spatial depth. The backgrounds in the paintings exist through flatness, serving as wallpaper behind the figure. The landscape backgrounds in my paintings are not specific to identifiable locations. The relationship between the figure and the ground is questioned through the overall composition. Both the background and the figure are …
Trademark, Cathryn Jasterzbski
Trademark, Cathryn Jasterzbski
Masters Theses
We are characterized by the assets which comprise our identity. These possessions provide us with numerous tools to navigate the social constructs that make up our lives. Growing up in a working-class family forced me to develop strategies to navigate various class structures as I engaged with them. This body of work redefines the value of the working class through a confluence of materials and techniques to bridge the two worlds that construct my identity—allowing me to coexist within both, yet bound by neither.
Unimproved : Land Observation At The Edge Of Progress, Adam Somers Bowen
Unimproved : Land Observation At The Edge Of Progress, Adam Somers Bowen
Masters Theses
As residents of the United States, all of us have benefited from the resources that this land provides. Some of these resources are responsibly managed, like some logging operations and grazing land. Some are much more harmful, like hydroelectric dams that have drowned Indigenous lands, and block natural habitat. Whether through development or extraction, we as humans have the special ability to drastically change the world around us in a very short amount of time. In a time of rapid environmental change, we need to find ways to better connect, observe, and assess the landscape so that as a society, …
Groundwork, Marcus Peabody
Groundwork, Marcus Peabody
Masters Theses
This is hardly groundbreaking, but graphic designers
(or at least this graphic designer)
should gather up information first hand
(rather than waiting to be handed content)
using multiple points of view
(because design needs to be rooted in the broader world)
and then address the resultant multiplicity
(which is chaotic and confusing)
by charting a somewhat linear path through it
(because I have an editorial point of view)
while still acknowledging the underlying complexity
(because it's not the only point of view)
giving structure that is coherent with the subject
(because without structure you just have a pile of content) …
Re-Creation : A Package Design For Daily Life, Wei-Hao Wang
Re-Creation : A Package Design For Daily Life, Wei-Hao Wang
Masters Theses
This thesis grows out of my observations of and inquiries into daily scenes,+ which are wrapped within what I am calling a package. The human mind often puts daily encounters into manageable packages to facilitate interaction with them. This process, however, makes us dull or neglectful. Looking into daily scenes allows me to unpack these packages and reflect on ubiquitous objects, notions and actions so that I am able to see them anew. To me, it offers a break from the habitual responses in life.
Re-creation: A Package Design for Daily Life intends to create a similar occasion for my …