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Textile Society Of America Newsletter 18:3 — Fall 2006, Textile Society Of America

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TSA Symposium 2006: Last-Minute Symposium Preview
President's Letter
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Education News
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In Memoriam: Carol Dean Krute
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Exhibition Reviews
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On "Midwestern Unlike You And Me: New Zealand's Julian Dashper" [Art Exhibit], Larry Taylor

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

You might say that Julian Dashper has driven the final stake into the corpse of painting, even after its much-touted death. Is painting dead? Of course not. But the idea of "painting" thankfully is in so much as it continues to be sufficiently challenged. And although Mr. Dashper states that painting’s death is "not his dialogue," this artist has effectively aimed to fire the last Warholian shot.

Penelope’S Web: Francesco Primaticcio’S Epic Revision At Fontainebleau, Giancarlo Fiorenza

Art and Design

Francesco Primaticcio designed his celebrated Galerie d’Ulysse at Fontainebleau (now destroyed) at a time when the epic genre was being updated and redefined. One of the most popular scenes from the gallery, Ulysses and Penelope recounting their adventures to one another in bed (from book 23 of the Odyssey), was adapted and revised in an independent composition by Primaticcio himself: Ulysses and Penelope (Toledo Museum of Art, ca. 1560). In contrast to the Fontainebleau mural, the artist’s self-conscious, refined pictorial language for his canvas converts epic energy into lyric sentimentality. As a result, Penelope becomes the central focus of the …

Mixed Media September 22, 2006, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The September 22, 2006 issue includes articles on departmental isolation at RISD, a Balls winning streak, visiting artist Laurie Rosenwald, a profile of a ceramics student, a planned public art piece for Boston's South Station, and ethnic hair products, along with student creative work, event notices, and other announcements.

Time's Body Of Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Look At Health And Aging, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

A catalog for an exhibition examining the aspects of aging and health and featuring the work of nine artists. The exhibition ran from September 9 through October 15, 2006 and featured works in a variety of mediums including bronze sculpture, oil on canvas, video, and more.

Design Research Quarterly Volume 1 Issue 1, Peter Storkerson

Design Research Quarterly (2006 - 2009)

Design Research Quarterly (2006-9) was a hybrid journal-newsletter of the Design Research Society. It contained news of the society, its members and regions and its sister societies, as well as peer-reviewed articles about issues of importance to design research, theory and knowledge.

Nexus, Fall 2006, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Friendships, Romantic Relationships, And The Importance Of Self-Expansion, Mami Kashiwabara

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Self-expansion theory (Aron & Aron, 1986) posits that individuals enter and maintain relationships in order to expand their sense of self and suggests that expanding the sense of self is a basic human motivation. In this study, I examined whether the perceived opportunities for self-expansion within a relationship predicted feelings of closeness and passion for a partner, and unlike many previous studies, I explored the importance of self-expansion in friendships as well as romantic relationships. I also explored individual differences in the importance of self-expansion opportunities in predicting closeness and passion. The results suggest that opportunities for self-expansion may motivate …

Unlv Magazine, Carol C. Harter, Karen Sharp, Gian Galassi, Tony Allen, Jennifer Lawson, Shane Bevell, Lori Bachand, Regina Vaccari, Pete Codella, Cate Weeks, Erin O'Donnell, Diane Russell, Phil Hagen

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

Being Boat, Images, Basia Irland

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[From Editor's Introduction]

Basia Irland is well established in the visual and digital art world for her work with a number of media and displays of work that suggests an investment in the aboriginal, personal and environmental; we are honored to host some of her most recent work and writing on water.

Ua32/4/1 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp, Wku Gender & Women's Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Booklet reviewing events at Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp.

Preliminary Report To The Purdue Writing Lab: Assessing Usability Of The "New" Online Writing Lab (Owl) Design And Contents, Michael Salvo, H. Allen Brizee, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Morgan Sousa

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Research Reports

This report is submitted June 16, 2006 to the Purdue University Writing Lab, specifically to Linda Bergmann, Director; Tammy Conard-Salvo, Associate Director; and Karl Stolley, Lead Web Designer. Intended to inform the ongoing redesign of the Online Writing Lab (OWL), it is written to maintain the highest level of usability and user-centered design of a unique, globally-utilized information resource. This document is a preliminary report limited to initial findings from a five-step usability testing protocol conducted February 25 through March 3, 2006. This testing plan was submitted to Purdue’s Institutional Review Board’s Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB) …

Dynamic Force, Motion, And Life In Digital Design., James Michael Livingston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this paper is to explore specific works that I have created as it relates to digital art and design. My works include abstract, organic objects that exist within surrealistic environments. First, I explain the dynamics of the imagery that has emerged from my career in broadcast television, my coursework in the Department of Art and Design at East Tennessee State University, and the works of fantasy, surreal, and abstract artists. In conclusion, the images discussed impose an idea of abstraction and surrealism with a sense of force, motion, life, and dynamic action.

The Concept And Use Of Beauty Within The Church, Patrick Greene

Senior Honors Projects

An empty room with a table at one end and some chairs facing this table hardly sounds like a church. And if a room similar to this were to be used for a church there would doubtless be decorations brought in, altar cloths, candles and a cross or crucifix. It seems to be that the employment of beauty within church services may be more than just a common element of a church service. Through my senior project I plan to come to a better understanding of how and why beauty is used within church services. I plan on looking at …

About Switch

SWITCH

SWITCH is an online journal that explores the intersection of art and technology. In connection with ZeroOne/ISEA2006, this and previous volumes feature related content and provide live coverage, including interviews, podcasts, and event reporting about the symposium.

An Original Line Of Bridesmaids’ Dresses, Mae Polson

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

A line of original bridesmaids’ dresses began as a market research project for Lara Hélène Bridal Atelier inNew York City. I was to research information on current clientele and find out what they were looking for in a bridesmaid’s dress. In doing my research I sourced books on brides and weddings, internet wedding sites, conducted surveys, and took personal interviews with the founders of Lara Hélène. The market research turned into a concept to design an original line of bridesmaids’ dresses that filled a void for a unique and elegant collection that fit into Lara Hélène’s company image.

Following the …

Exploring Spaces: A Series Of Video Experiments, Nicholas R. Kinling

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

My overall intention of this project was use the Honors Thesis Project to apply what I have learned while studying art video to create a collection of successful videos that allow me to work above and beyond the art video curriculum. I was eager to work independently on a long-term project, and the Honors Thesis Project provided me with both an exciting and challenging opportunity to display my academic initiative and creative drive.

Upon completion of the thesis project, I selected six video art pieces that I felt were most successful and relevant to the project theme. The theme of …

Pirate Story, Jake T. Powell

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

What is children’s cinema? This thesis explores this question by identifying three codes of children’s film and illuminating them through a short film entitled “Pirate Story.” The film is about a boy and his grandfather, and the pirates that inhabit a bedtime story. The pirates compete with the grandfather to have narrative authority over their own existence. This film examines the role of the narrator, use of animation, and absence of the parental figures as elements that are signifiers of children’s cinema. It was shot on HD video, with animation created in After Effects. Production also involved creation of a …

The Telepresent Tug Of War, Michael Weisert

SWITCH

This article explores “The Telepresent Tug of War,” an interactive artwork that connects participants in different locations through a physical competition. The author recounts a brief history of duels, tug-of-war, and sports, and examines how competition, technology, and culture intersect.

Isea, Pacific Rim & Beyond

SWITCH

Front matter for volume 22 of SWITCH. In 2006, SWITCH served as a media correspondent for the ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA2006 Festival and Symposium and, as such, focused this volume on the interesections of CADRE and the symposium.

Switch & Isea

SWITCH

This article describes SWITCH, an online new media art journal from San José State University that explores the intersection of art and technology. Since 1995, SWITCH has provided a platform for discussion, reporting, and collaboration around emerging digital art practices. In connection with the ZeroOne/ISEA 2006 Symposium, SWITCH highlights artists and ideas related to themes like transvergence and the Pacific Rim, while also offering live coverage, interviews, and multimedia content from the event.

Isea2006 Publishing Model

SWITCH

As part of a network of collaborating institutions, SWITCH contributes essays, interviews, and multimedia content connected to the ISEA2006 Festival, with a focus on the Pacific Rim theme. It also supports live programming, including podcasts, interviews, and roundtable discussions.

A Profile Of Isea's Pacific Rim Artists, Ethan Miller Miller

SWITCH

An introduction to artists featured in the Pacific Rim theme of ZeroOne/ISEA2006, highlighting the diversity of their work and perspectives.

Cadre 20th Anniversary Exhibition Atisea, Sheila Malone

SWITCH

The CADRE 20th Anniversary Exhibition at ISEA brings together artists from the CADRE Laboratory, showcasing work that explores culture, technology, and media. This piece lists the featured artists.

Past Issues

SWITCH

An overview of past issues of SWITCH, showcasing a wide range of themes exploring art, technology, and culture.

Micro_Cosmos, Rachael E. Freyman Brown

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This exhibition thesis and its accompanying exhibition invite the viewer to contemplate large and small connections to nature in our lives. How are backyard gardens a metaphor for the way our culture thinks of or treats nature and the environment? Do we have personal or spiritual connections to the land, plants, and the ecosystem, or do we see them merely as products for our use? The work in micro _COSMOS is an attempt to balance and unite paradoxes: the spiritual within the everyday, the natural and the constructed, and to come to terms with the constant cycle of regeneration in …

Lovers, Virginia Poundstone

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Spring 2006, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

No abstract provided.

Donde Habite El Olvido (Reflected In The Photograph), Michaela Mccaughey

Senior Honors Projects

The concept of place, so intangible and yet embedded in all, remains a complicated and debated philosophical topic. What is place? Why are we drawn to certain places and averse to others? Why does a sense of home continue to feel so necessary to us – when there we are nurtured by it and when separated we long for it. Art works, places in themselves, provoke similar questions in us. We are drawn to certain works of art; they signify something to us in their being-in-the-world. Their place matters to us. Art is a place you can return (home) to. …

Zephyr: The Seventh Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Jamie Thompson, Emma Bouthillette, Brittany Campbell, Alissa Ehmke, Abby Elliott, Courtney Hartelius, Brady Potter

Zephyr

This is the seventh issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.