Funnel Vision, David Grainger

Theses and Dissertations

This paper will talk about the videos and sculptural installation in my thesis exhibition. Shooting videos outside of the studio developed into a project overarching any individual video or its particular signs. Thus, this paper will focus on the video project with examples that follow a timeline of development, rather than the actual 6 videos on display in the exhibit. The two-part sculpture "Deer in the Headlights" is created in the context of these videos, and coexists with them in a specific architectural space. This space, as well as the clichéd meaning of the deer's gaze, have a relation to …

Front Matter: Re-Purpose

SWITCH

Front Matter for Volume 24 of SWITCH. The theme of this issue is “Re-Purpose” - highlighting creative ways artists reuse and rethink technology, spaces, and ideas.

Interview With Richard Wright And Graham Harwood Of Mongrel, Yumika Tanaka

SWITCH

This interview features Richard Wright and Graham Harwood of Mongrel, a digital artist group known for working with marginalized communities. They talk about their creative process, including how they collaborate with groups like Irish Travelers and Congolese immigrants, and how those communities use digital technology in unique and meaningful ways.

Purpose Machines, Douglas Edric Stanley

SWITCH

This article explores how machines can be designed to have purpose - not just to follow instructions, but to react, adapt, and change based on their environment. The author compares early ideas from cybernetics and computer science with modern technologies, showing how machines today can be flexible, creative, and open-ended. He also questions the idea that artists can “re-purpose” machines, since machines are already made to be re-used.

Architectural Sustainability, Mike Lowell

SWITCH

This article explores how architecture is evolving to be more sustainable, responsive, and integrated with the environment. Contemporary architects consider local communities, ecological impact, and energy efficiency. The author discusses examples like Morphosis, Herzog + Partner, and MVRDV, who design with environmental and social responsibility in mind.

The Gift Economy Of Artistic Practice And The Social Systems Created Through Dialogic Artworks., Wayne Madsen

SWITCH

This article explores the idea of gift culture in art, focusing on how artists can move beyond commercial markets to create public, participatory experiences. It discusses Ghosttown, a project by Red76, and its Open Kitchen event - a mobile, community-run kitchen where food and memories are shared freely.

Voice By Design: Experiments In Redistributing Media, Bizhan Khodabandeh

Theses and Dissertations

In this project I conduct two experiments in redistributing media power and reflect upon how successful they were. The experiments include a poster campaign specific to Richmond and a project dealing with educating people about guerrilla media techniques.

Crafting Content: Searching For The Individual In Craft Making, Megan Marie Hosch

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

My creative thesis is a visual exhibition exploring the genre of craft in fine art and investigating the relationship of craft making to the artist. I am personally and professionally involved in craft making due to its strong presence in my identity as an artist, a woman and educator. As a child, I was a paper weaving master, dedicated to coloring inside lines, painting by numbers, and carefully following the cross-stitch patterns. However, during my undergraduate studies in art education, I steered clear from re-enacting earlier activities involving craft making. My ideas about craft making were easily conformed to the …

Constant Daydream, Anne Ruehrmund

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

"That the world of things can open itself to reveal a secret life - indeed, to reveal a set of actions and hence a narrativity and history outside the given field of perception - is a constant daydream that the miniature presents. This is the daydream of the microscope: the daydream oflife inside life, of significance multiplied infinitely within significance. " My work depicts an imaginary world of objects, where secret desires and complex relationships are explored through a language of decorations and toys. I am interested in what draws us to amusing or nostalgic objects, whose only function is …

Navigate Your Way Through A Sea Of Data, Korin S. Gath

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

No abstract provided.

Constructing The Robert Kingsley Papers., Heidi Caudill

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a documentation of my efforts to organize the Robert Kingsley Papers held in the Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville. Motivated by the desire to preserve a record of his life's work, Louisville architect Robert K. Kingsley donated the collection of personal papers in 1993, shortly before his death from brain cancer. The Kingsley papers remained in its original state of disorder from 1993 to 2007, when I took on the role of archivist with the intention of making the collection available to researchers and scholars. I organized the five boxes of records …

Milestones / Miles’S Tones: A Coincidence, Brian Fay

Exhibition Catalogues

Milestones/Miles’s Tones: a Coincidence is a catalogue essay published in the 25^th. anniversary catalogue for Black Church Print Studio’s, Dublin.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

William Pope L. At Santa Monica Museum Of Art, Micol Hebron

Art Faculty Articles and Research

This article focuses on William Pope's three part installation Art After White People: Trees, Time & Celluloid.

Jean-Baptiste Debret’S Return Of The Negro Hunters, The Brazilian Roça, And The Interstices Of Empire, Amy J. Buono

Art Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"Despite the range of subjects that Debret illustrates, historians of Brazil have usually only reproduced his images of Afro-Brazilian slaves. This is understandable, given the political, social and economic interest in the topic and the fact that Debret is one of the few artists who portrayed the horrors of slavery in Brazil at so early date.³ The keen interest in slavery as an historical topic has also led some scholars to assume that all Afro-Brazilians depicted in Debret's volumes are slaves, when many individuals may in fact have been free.⁴ While acknowledging the importance of examining Debret's images …

Frontiers In Printmaking Conference, School Of Art

Normal Editions Workshop Programming

The Frontiers in Printmaking conference at Illinois State University took place October 3-5, 2007. The conference featured the 30th anniversary celebration of Normal Editions Workshop (NEW) and was held in conjunction with the sesquicentennial year of the University. Frontiers in Printmaking featured discourse on various historical topics, highlighted current developments, and explored future directions while focusing attention on the contemporary contributions and rich heritage of printmaking and related subjects to the overall visual culture.

Fall 2007, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

No abstract provided.

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 19:3 — Fall 2007, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Algerian Conservation Project—"One, Two, Three, Viva Algerie!"
President's Letter
Symposium 2008 Plans—TSA 11th Biennial Symposium, Textiles as Cultural Expressions, Honolulu, Hawaii
TSA News
TSA Member News
Collections News
Opportunities
Exhibition Reviews
Book Reviews
Publications News
Calendar: Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Conferences and Symposia
Nomination Form for TSA Board of Directors
TSA 11th Biennial Symposium 2008 logo

Design Research Quarterly Volume 2 Issue 4, 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.

The Car Park, Dave Colangelo

School of Film Faculty Publications and Presentations

This essay uses the work of Marc Augé as a lens through which to view the supermodern urban space, and how the concept of place is manufactured and negotiated. The author focuses on a car park to elucidate these themes, and agrees with Augé, who claims that non-places such as car parks fail to create identity or relations.

Duchampian Authenticity And The Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The goal of this work is to define the term Duchampian authenticity. I focus primarily on the artist Marcel Duchamp's works and philosophies in relation not only to traditional philosophies regarding authenticity but also in relation to his effect on authenticity's metamorphosis in popular culture and the mass market. I propose that the monumental paradigm shifts produced by Duchamp's conceptual and aesthetic experiments within the realm of visual art spread into our cultural bedrock, ultimately defining the consumer's ability to attain authenticity and identity through inauthentic and ephemeral commodities. Marcel Duchamp challenged traditional notions of the authentic experience and translated …

Nexus, Fall 2007, 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.

Self-Efficacy And Health Value Among Undergraduates Following A Lifetime Fitness Course, Heather M. Brown

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The question of whether perceived self-efficacy for exercise and health value, respectively, varied as a function of gender and exercise stage of change was the focus of this study. An archival data set was used. Participants were 190 college students who completed a demographic questionnaire, the Exercise Stage of Change Questionnaire, the Rokeach Values Survey, and the Self-Efficacy for Exercise questionnaire before and after completing a lifetime fitness course. Two 2-factor analyses of covariance were conducted for each dependent variable, self-efficacy and health value. Gender and exercise stage of change were the independent variables. Exercise stage of change was divided …

Domain Specific Identity Commitment And Alcohol Use And Problems, Alison Glanville

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identity formation is an important developmental task of the college years. Previous research has demonstrated that identity commitment, as defined by James Marcia, is related to decreased substance use and problems. That is, individuals who are identity achieved or foreclosed use substances less frequently and experience fewer substance-related problems than do individuals who are classified in the statuses of identity diffused or moratorium. However, Marcia discussed identity as developing in two domains, the occupational and the ideological (religious beliefs and political ideology). To date, no studies have examined in which domain commitment is associated with a decrease in substance use …

Finding Time: How It Is Made Visual Artists Newsletter, Brian Fay

Articles

FINDING TIME

Brian Fay outlines the processes and concepts underpinning his practice

Design Research Quarterly Volume 2 Issue 3, 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.

Japanese Video Art, Micol Hebron

Art Faculty Articles and Research

A review of the "Radical Communication, Japanese Video Art, 1968-1988" exhibition, curated by Glenn Phillips, at the Getty Museum.

Inquiry Into Libraries: Design Approach To Children’S Interactive Library, Eva Eriksson, Peter Gall Krogh, Andreas Lykke-Olesen

Nordes Conference Series

This article reports on a design process of pervasive computing installations for a children’s interactive library. The design process involved a wide range of decisive parties of the domain and the process was designed so that the collectively developed design concepts could suit the needs and interests of the many parties. Narratives and sketches were used for inquiries and communication, and the concepts and their iterations illustrate the process ofdesign and how the physical qualities of the environment and the artefacts played a central role in the development of the concepts.

Ethical Implications Of Design Practices: The Case Of Industrially Manufactured Patient Clothing In Finland, Sonja Iltanen

Nordes Conference Series

In the following article, we describe the actors and practices influencing design of patient clothing in Finland. We also discuss the ethical dimensions and issues that can be identified in this process and in decisions concerning patient clothing. In our data, designing patient clothing is represented as a highly complex net of conflicting needs. According to our findings ethical issues in patient design were associated with ethical principles of efficiency, beneficence, privacy and autonomy.

Design Education: Student And Market Expectations, Eva Brandt

Nordes Conference Series

In resent years the two main design schools in Denmark (Danmarks Designskole1 and Designskolen Kolding2) undergo many changes. The overall goal for both is to obtain status as a university, and they will be evaluated in this regard in 2010. Transforming a vocational school with long handicraft traditions into a research based institution for higher education is demanding. Danmarks Designskole is in the middle of this process, many activities are initiated, both employees and students are involved, and from outside representatives from various design professions. The design process has many stakeholders with various interests and opinions. The aim it is …