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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Living Tangent, Cornelius Alexander Hugo
Living Tangent, Cornelius Alexander Hugo
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
A living tangent is how I am known by many and how I have lived my life for some time. I think in tangents and my life and art seem to evolve through them. Everything I make is connected by multiple thoughts or tangent lines that run from something as simple as the color red, to the idea that I believe communism has invaded my family’s homeland. This then leads to the recollection of childhood games, taught to me by my family in Venezuela and the importance these games played in my psychological development and in my presence as an …
A Timeless Ritual, Luke Thomas Doyle
A Timeless Ritual, Luke Thomas Doyle
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This written thesis is the supporting documentation for A Timeless Ritual, my Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition. The exhibition seeks to define my expression of aesthetics through utilitarian vessels to create a sense of nostalgia with the user my mimicking industrial objects.
The research pertaining to my thesis explores the interactions between object and user. A patina layered over time evokes a sense of age, weathered memories of a time once lived. I look for these subtle nuances in form. Borrowing an aesthetic from manufactured products and reviving it in a domestic space is where my pots takes life. …
Roses & Thorns, Stephanie Alaniz
Roses & Thorns, Stephanie Alaniz
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This written thesis has been created alongside the thesis exhibition shown in the Laura Mesaros Gallery at West Virginia University (displayed March 18th to March 22nd). The work presented consisted of drawings, bookmaking, and various forms of printmaking and collage. This body of work is meant to create an analysis of insecurities and body positivity we associate with our physical selves. This work is a collective experience that has been a collaboration with over 80 participants. The number of participants help to create a larger overall collective voice. By creating this collective voice, we can experience these feelings together and …
2.8: Designing Visitor Experience For A Narrative-Oriented Exhibition, Kseniia Leshchenko
2.8: Designing Visitor Experience For A Narrative-Oriented Exhibition, Kseniia Leshchenko
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This thesis proposes interactive visitor experience with social media and fake news references at 2.8 thesis exhibition at West Virginia University. 2.8 refers to the distance between the United States and Russia borders in the Bering Strait and suggests that switching a point of view helps conflicting groups find common ground. By designing a space in such a way that a visitor constantly faces an alternative point of view, which in this case represents my own, I investigate whether this experience contributes to the viewers’ outlook change. Another aim is to see whether adding interactive elements to a show improves …