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Un-Earthed, William Austin McKinney 2019 University of Mississippi

Un-Earthed, William Austin Mckinney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With this exhibition, I strive to create sculptures that reveal beauty and act as a visual reminder of the destruction we have caused by decades of industrial negligence and greed. Using the principles and elements of design I hope to create visually stimulating objects that resembles the beauty found in the hills of Appalachia. A dialogue is fostered that influences future generations by bringing to light the reality of our past transgressions.


Neo_Fluxus & Dragons, Zachary A. Kelley 2019 Georgia Southern University

Neo_Fluxus & Dragons, Zachary A. Kelley

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

What is a viewer? Who can be a viewer? What is the purpose of a viewer? Is viewing an artwork a process? How does a viewer interact with an artwork? What is an artist? Are the formal elements or conceptual natures more important in art making? Why is that art? These questions and more direct me in how and why I make my art.

I will be discussing the relationship between the viewer and the artwork in an artwork experience. I will define an artwork experience using an analysis of Michael Fried’s notion of theatricality, relating the viewer to the …


Pathos, Winter 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board 2019 Portland State University

Pathos, Winter 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan


"Our Gang", Jacque McDonald 2019 Fort Hays State University

"Our Gang", Jacque Mcdonald

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

“Our Gang”

The process of scooping up earth with a little blue spoon taught me to dig deeper. My ceramic sculptures of imaginative but vulnerable children begins with close observation and builds a rich visual memory. My memories of my elementary school classmates fused with photographic references provide rich resources for the children in Our Gang.

In my studio I draw the figure out with the bone structure, so I can see how to move the parts without losing the anatomy. Planning and measuring on a pre-made guide for uniformity and precise measurements is important in keeping the size of …


Connecting Thread, Christen Parker 2019 University of Mississippi

Connecting Thread, Christen Parker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Up until about the 1960’s, sculpture was dominated by work made with metal, wood, or stone. These materials would be described as “hard” or “masculine,” while materials such as fabric or yarn are described as “soft” or “feminine.” Fabric is known for its softness and malleability and is commonly used to cover the human body for objects such as clothing or bedding. The materials that I have selected are generally considered soft, yet protective, but are also thought of as insubstantial and fragile. As a child, I would see quilts and hear stories about how my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother …


Photography, Visual Culture, And The (Re)Definition/Queering Of The Male Gaze, David Nicholas Martin 2019 University of Kentucky

Photography, Visual Culture, And The (Re)Definition/Queering Of The Male Gaze, David Nicholas Martin

Theses and Dissertations--Art and Visual Studies

The traditional notion of the Male Gaze, first conceptualized by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975, focused on the objectification of women through depictions structured to gratify a male heterosexual perspective. In this chapter we will revisit this concept and investigate how that gaze may have shifted away from a primarily heterosexual perspective to a socially dominant male perspective (maleness here referring to dominance rather than specific gender, just as “whiteness” might refer to privilege rather than race). With gender roles in an increasingly global and mobile society becoming more fluid and complex, opening up visibility to LGBTQ communities, …


Sadness 3.0, Erma Porter '19 2019 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Sadness 3.0, Erma Porter '19

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Digital Art


Classically Formal, Biotic Subjectivity: Moderating Plastic's Relation To The Viewer, Tirza Jo Ochrach-Konradi 2019 Scripps College

Classically Formal, Biotic Subjectivity: Moderating Plastic's Relation To The Viewer, Tirza Jo Ochrach-Konradi

Scripps Senior Theses

Due to its cheap, pervasive, and disposable nature, post-consumer plastic has no subjectivity in its relation to the consumer. My thesis project examines the material’s inherent destructive narrative and question its ability to have extrinsic value beyond the assumptions of trash. In my research, I found that humans instinctually seek to conserve and treat biotic material with care. This fact has become a catalyst for the works in this project, which aim to not only increase the material’s value through animate biomorphic transformation, but also counter our disposable tendencies.

At the onset of this project, I was fixated solely on …


A Fiction Of Fragmented Falsehoods: Curriculum Of Unwanted Roads Traveled, Katherine Wyatt 2019 Georgia Southern University

A Fiction Of Fragmented Falsehoods: Curriculum Of Unwanted Roads Traveled, Katherine Wyatt

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This is an inquiry centered on lived ‘otherness’ in different social experiences. Fiction and illustrations are both creative outlets that provide opportunities of curriculum growth by offering the viewer realistic portrayals dealing with truth and factors that make us fundamentally human. “Fiction elicits an interpretation of the world by being itself a worldlike object for interpretation” (Dillard, 1988, p. 155). This study uses fiction and illustrations as vehicles of communication to provide an awareness regarding social issues in everyday lived experiences, exposing the reader to the social, cultural and historical realities persistently impeding the shared constructs of human experiences. Structuring …


Written In Bone: Damage Patterns In Agonopsis Vulsa Armor, Morgan Stewart 2019 Claremont Colleges

Written In Bone: Damage Patterns In Agonopsis Vulsa Armor, Morgan Stewart

Scripps Senior Theses

Naturally occurring armor has evolved in many different classes of organisms, often in response to predation, although other factors may play a part. In this study, the scales of the benthic armored fish Agonopsis vulsa were examined for damage patterns in order to illuminate the life history and environmental interactions of the fish. Scales from the fish were systematically destroyed in the lab, and observations made from the damaged scales were used to create a categorical damage rating, which was applied to 34 specimens ranging in trunk length from 2.3 cm to 14.2 cm. The specimens were rendered as three-dimensional …


La Enfermedad Florece En El Desierto, Xochilt Alejandra Sequeira Aguilar 2019 University of Texas at El Paso

La Enfermedad Florece En El Desierto, Xochilt Alejandra Sequeira Aguilar

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

La enfermedad florece en el desierto es un poemario híbrido cuyo material discursivo se construye a partir del verso libre, el diario y las anotaciones de cuaderno. Es, además, un libro ecfrástico que propone un diálogo entre poesía y fotografía para meditar sobre dos tópicos recurrentes en la literatura: el desierto y la enfermedad. Sus objetivos son, en primer lugar, explorar una metáfora propia de ambos tópicos y, en segundo lugar, definir a qué tradición pertenece este trabajo al recurrir a la técnica de la écfrasis y a los temas en mención.


Las Espinas Del Cactus, Maria Lorena Sosa Rodriguez 2019 University of Texas at El Paso

Las Espinas Del Cactus, Maria Lorena Sosa Rodriguez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Las espinas del cactus es una exploración científica de la vegetación desértica entre México y Estados Unidos, particularmente la de Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, para abordar desde un lenguaje poético los temas de migración e identidad.

Confeccionado como un herbario este poemario especula sobre dos principales tópicos:

• La ausencia de voces femeninas en los discursos tradicionales y sus derivaciones.

• Narrativas que hacen referencia a diferentes éxodos, que al mismo tiempo han fungido como teorías para explicar el origen de una comunidad.

El leitmotiv de este proyecto está basado en las plantas y la posibilidad de encontrar versiones sobre la …


The Art Of Language: American Sign Language And Dance, Lily Adams 2019 The University of Akron

The Art Of Language: American Sign Language And Dance, Lily Adams

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Dance and American Sign Language (ASL) are two separate entities which share a place in the world as communication through movement. For this project, I extended my knowledge and understanding of two disciplines, ASL and dance, through evidence-based research practices while integrating that research with my creative process and experience within a classroom-based setting. Through this framework of research, coursework, and experimentation, I drew relations between dance and ASL as communication. The results of my research are presented in this report as well as in a piece of choreography I created based on the integration of ASL with a choreographic …


Kardía: A Choreographic Investigation Utilizing The Human Heart, Rebekah R. Mayfield 2019 The University of Akron

Kardía: A Choreographic Investigation Utilizing The Human Heart, Rebekah R. Mayfield

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The research project, Kardía; A Choreographic Investigation Utilizing the Human Heart, examined how findings regarding the study of the heart influences and expands choreographic options for and approaches to dance as a work of art. The heart is a unique and intricate organ that helps sustain life within a human body. Examined for this project were the structure, actions and functions of the human heart. This data informed and inspired the concepts that were applied to my choreography, culminating in the presentation of my original work entitled Kardía; The Quietest Voice. The creative process I used for this project …


Arab Americanesque, Hannah W. Shaban 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

Arab Americanesque, Hannah W. Shaban

Theses and Dissertations

Culture, as defined by Edward Said, is a concept of identity selectively curated through imperialism. Through my ceramic practice, I explore what constitutes my cultural identity as a first generation Arab American. My work, primarily influenced by family narrative was initially expressed through investigations in the figure and viewer relationships with my sculpted figures. As my research progressed into Western Imperialism, I began noticing extensive evidence of colonialism’s lasting effects, especially within Western consumer markets. Interest in the writings of Said, works by French Orientalist painters, family memory, and a general displeasure with the plethora of Middle Eastern design used …


Second Wind, Anne A. Yoncha 2019 University of Montana

Second Wind, Anne A. Yoncha

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

Second Wind is a kinetic, responsive art installation which examines invisible processes taking place in and around a Ponderosa pine tree. Wind speed data, measured at 20', 25', 30', 35', and 40' in the canopy of a Ponderosa on the University of Montana campus, is translated into the gallery in real time using two Raspberry Pi single-board computers. This data determines the velocity of five fans in the gallery. Each fan interacts with a suspended vellum paper structure which moves more or less depending on wind speed. The vellum is painted with an ink made of fermented pine needles from …


Topiary Forest, Isabella Krompegel-Anliker 2019 Macalester College

Topiary Forest, Isabella Krompegel-Anliker

Art and Art History Honors Projects

“Topiary Forest” is an exploration into the transformative actions of my hands, my role in a culture which exploits nature, the separation of nature and culture, and the pressure to commodify any and all processes of creation. The project consists of thirty tree fragments which I made on the lathe, and with various saws, sanders, and carving tools. The trees arose out of a need to visually explore the frictions between traditional definitions of nature and culture, and a desire to question the disparities between my love of nature and my involvement in the ongoing exploitation of it. In making …


การพัฒนาเกมเพื่อการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม โดยใช้แนวคิดเกมิฟิเคชัน, ณัฐกมล ถุงสุวรรณ 2019 คณะศิลปกรรมศาสตร์

การพัฒนาเกมเพื่อการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม โดยใช้แนวคิดเกมิฟิเคชัน, ณัฐกมล ถุงสุวรรณ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานศึกษาวิจัยเรื่องการพัฒนาเกมเพื่อส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม โดยใช้แนวคิดเกมิฟิเคชัน มีวัตถุประสงค์ คือ 1) เพื่อศึกษาแนวคิดของเกมิฟิเคชันและออกแบบเกมิฟิเคชัน ที่ส่งเสริมการรับรู้ในเนื้อหาเรื่องราวของวัฒนธรรมไทยที่เชื่อมโยงกับในพื้นที่ของการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม 2) เพื่อศึกษาและนำเสนอแนวทางในการออกแบบเกมร่วมกับแนวคิดเกมิฟิเคชัน สำหรับการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม 3) เพื่อนำเสนอต้นแบบการออกแบบเกมโดยใช้แนวคิดเกมิฟิเคชัน จากการศึกษาวิจัยค้นพบว่าแนวคิดหลักของเกมิฟิเคชันคือการออกแบบระบบที่สามารถดึงดูดให้ผู้ใช้งานติดอยู่กับระบบนั้น โดยใช้ความเป็นเกมจูงใจในการมีส่วนร่วมจนเกิดความผูกพันเพื่อส่งผลให้ผู้เล่นเกิดพฤติกรรมตามวัตถุประสงค์ที่ตั้งไว้ เนื้อหาที่ใช้ในเกมมาจากพื้นที่การท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรมในจังหวัดน่าน เนื่องจากเป็นพื้นที่ที่มีเรื่องราวทางด้านศิลปะและวัฒนธรรมที่หลากหลายแต่ยังไม่ได้รับการเผยแพร่หรือเป็นที่นึกถึงของนักท่องเที่ยวมากนัก ระเบียบวิธีการวิจัยใช้วิธีวิจัยแบบผสมด้วยการศึกษาแนวคิดทางด้านเกมิฟิเคชัน การออกแบบเกมและรูปแบบของภาพกราฟิกในเกม ร่วมกับการสัมภาษณ์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านเกมิฟิเคชันและด้านการออกแบบเกม รวมถึงการเก็บข้อมูลกลุ่มตัวอย่างผู้บริโภคที่เล่นเกมมือถือและชอบท่องเที่ยวในเรื่องของพฤติกรรมและแรงจูงใจในการเล่นเกม รูปแบบของการเล่นรวมถึงแนวทางภาพกราฟิกที่ชอบในเกม นำผลจากการศึกษามาประยุกต์ใช้ในการออกแบบและพัฒนาต้นแบบเกมโดยมีรูปแบบของเกมและกลไกการเล่นที่ตอบสนองกับพฤติกรรมผู้เล่นได้เป็นการเล่นในรูปแบบการเดินเล่นอย่างอิสระหรือ Open World ซึ่งมาจากพฤติกรรมการเล่นหลักของกลุ่มเป้าหมายที่เป็นประเภท Explorers ใช้เนื้อหาด้านศิลปวัฒนธรรมในพื้นที่การท่องเที่ยวน่านมาเป็นเรื่องราวและภารกิจในเกม ผลจากการทดสอบการเล่นสามารถบอกได้ว่าเกมที่ออกแบบบนแนวคิดของเกมิฟิเคชันสามารถใช้เป็นเครื่องมือเพื่อส่งเสริมการเผยแพร่และรับรู้เนื้อหาได้ รวมถึงการนำเกมมาใช้บูรณาการกับการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรมเป็นสื่อหนึ่งที่สามารถส่งเสริมกันระหว่างอุตสาหกรรมดิจิทัลคอนเทนต์และอุตสาหกรรมการท่องเที่ยวได้อย่างเหมาะสมกับในยุคดิจิทัล


Volume 11, Jacob Carney, Ryan White, Joseph Hyman, Jenny Raven, Megan Garrett, Ibrahim Kante, Summer Meinhard, Lauren Johnson, William "Editha" Dean Howells, Laura Gottschalk, Christopher Siefke, Pink Powell, Natasha Woodmancy, Katharine Colley, Abbey Mays, Charlotte Potts 2019 Longwood University

Volume 11, Jacob Carney, Ryan White, Joseph Hyman, Jenny Raven, Megan Garrett, Ibrahim Kante, Summer Meinhard, Lauren Johnson, William "Editha" Dean Howells, Laura Gottschalk, Christopher Siefke, Pink Powell, Natasha Woodmancy, Katharine Colley, Abbey Mays, Charlotte Potts

Incite: The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Dr. Roger A. Byrne, Dean

From the Editor, Dr. Larissa "Kat" Tracy

From the Designers, Rachel English, Rachel Hanson

Synthesis of 3,5-substituted Parabens and their Antimicrobial Properties, Jacob Coarney, Ryan White

Chernobyl: Putting "Perestroika" and "Glasnot" to the Test, Joseph Hyman

Art by Jenny Raven

Watering Down Accessibility: The Issue with Public Access to Alaska's Federal Waterways, Meagan Garrett

Why Has the Democratic Republic of the Congo outsourced its Responsibility to Educate its Citizens? Ibrahim Kante

Art by Summer Meinhard

A Computational Study of Single Molecule Diodes, Lauren Johnson

Satire of …


Deities And Devotion In Mongolian Buddhist Art, Charles Mason, Andie Near, Tom Wagner 2019 Hope College

Deities And Devotion In Mongolian Buddhist Art, Charles Mason, Andie Near, Tom Wagner

Kruizenga Art Museum Exhibition Catalogs

Design by Tom Wagner. Produced by Storming the Castle Pictures (StCP) as a catalog for the Kruizenga Art Museum exhibition “Deities and Devotion in Mongolian Buddhist Art,” August 30 – December 14, 2019.

Kruizenga Art Museum Online Collection - Exhibition Gallery


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