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Untangling Knots: Embodied Diagramming Practices In Knot Theory, Kate Mccallum

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The low visibility and specialised languages of mathematical work pose challenges for the ethnographic study of communication in mathematics, but observation-based study can offer a real-world grounding to questions about the nature of its methods. This paper uses theoretical ideas from linguistic pragmatics to examine how mutual understandings of diagrams are achieved in the course of conference presentations. Presenters use shared knowledge to train others to interpret diagrams in the ways favoured by the community of experts, directing an audience’s attention so as to develop a shared understanding of a diagram’s features and possible manipulations. In this way, expectations about …

Eng 1002g-007: College Composition Ii, Jamie Golladay

Spring 2019

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-016: College Composition Ii, Leann Akins

Spring 2019

No abstract provided.

Exel Coursework, Nova Southeastern University

CAHSS ExEL

No abstract provided.

A Guide To Thesis Book Design, Marcus Peabody, Center For Arts And Language

Thesis Writing

57 pages. "This guide is more basic and specific than other design manuals. Used in isolation it should tell you all you need to produce your book, even without prior graphic design knowledge. It could also be a starting point for a deeper dive into book design: other manuals that deal more thoroughly with elements such as book binding or typography are mentioned along the way for further reference." – from the introduction. "This book is set in Brandon Grotesque and Miller Text. Written and designed by Marcus Peabody (GD MFA 2019). Edited by Jen Liese and Meredith Barrett (A&L). …

At 977 Weeks, Your Baby Can Make Jokes About These Stupid Billboards, Lily Indie

Honors Library Research Award

2018/2019 first place award winner. This paper explores the idea that abortion rhetoric creates a stalemated political climate. "If we want to change legislation, we have to change the conversation, finding new strategies through which to convey our ideas. Our solution can be found in the most unlikely of places: comedy." 17 pages.

Elizabeth Hein, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Elizabeth Hein

Senior Art Portfolios

Elizabeth Hein's Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, showcased in the Baer Gallery from April 8th to May 3rd, 2019. Works include graphic design, package design, and a zine.

Social Media And Communication Centers: An Introduction, Janine Morris, Whitney S. Lehmann, Kevin Dvorak

Communication, Media, and Arts Faculty Articles

While many communication centers actively use social media to engage with different publics, there is a need for scholarship addressing how centers can best use social media to enhance student professional development, cross-campus connections, branding, and center visibility. This introduction to the CCJ special section on social media and communication centers offers a rationale for centers’ strategic incorporation of social media platforms. In particular, we discuss the importance of strategic branding, engaging different publics, and using social media to enhance consultant professional development as key features of social media use by communication center professionals.

“But How Could We Sing A Song Of The Lord In A Foreign Land?” An Esl/Esp Class For Catholic Immigrants, Mary C. Tillotson

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The U.S. Catholic population has a larger proportion of immigrants than the U.S. population at large. The majority of Catholic immigrants come from Latin America and are not native speakers of English. In this qualitative study, I interviewed nine Catholic immigrants from Latin America to better understand their experiences of navigating their Catholic faith in the United States and the role an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) class could play in helping them successfully adjust to United States Catholicism. Findings suggest that, beyond a general ESL class, an English-for-specific-purposes class, capitalizing on the universality of Catholicism and specialized for Catholic prayer, liturgy, sacraments, …

Touched With All The Radiance That A Sudden Sun Discloses, Marie Fornaro

Theses and Dissertations

The thread running through my work is a constant impulse to rend and repair; to make, unmake, and remake. This repetitive and circular approach allows me to confront the cyclical nature of gendered oppression. What does it mean to make something beautiful and then to dismantle it? How do we reckon with the pieces that remain? By deconstructing the beautiful and lovingly crafted objects that I spend hours making, I recenter “craft” as a verb rather than a noun, forcing myself and my audience to resist the comforting illusion of certainty.

I contextualize my piecework and quilting in a long …

Spaces In, Outside Of, And Between, Michelle Peterein

Theses and Dissertations

My practice involves leveraging analog and digital techniques from many disciplines, but especially graphic design, craft/material studies, and sculpture. I embrace reproduction and repetition as both tools and means to visualize what is often unseen, and to recognize not only what is made, but what supports making— from the straightforward and immediate to the complex and conceptual.

This Must Be The Place, Eve White

Theses and Dissertations

This publication is the companion piece to “This Must Be the Place,” a 3D realization of my conceptual photography work exhibited in the Anderson Courtyard at VCU's 2019 School of the Arts MFA Show. I photograph scenes from nature and reproduce these images onto flattened plexiglass planes, arranging them in new, natural environments and photographing them again. The outcome is a scenic collage in which two unfamiliar locations become superimposed. It is my hope that as people experience the work they become a part of the texture of it.

Untitled Unknown, Taylor Simone Stewart

Theses and Dissertations

This article is the first of a series exploring domination culture through the ways narrative has been indoctrinated as reality and weaponized as a holding cell for captives. Within this exploration, the narrative of domination is placed in relation to higher dimensional realms of the unknown; this being the before and after of domination culture. This positioning will allow for the reality of a simultaneous existence within the labyrinth of domination and a higher dimensional unknown to be framed. Within this series of articles, I question the roll of the rogue characters shamanistic agents of resisting domination, the fear of …

2019-2020 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

No abstract provided.

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 …

Carlisle Indian Boarding School Portraits: From The Nineteenth Century To Contemporary Art, Nina Leigh Fiorucci

Wayne State University Theses

This essay examines how Carlisle Indian Boarding School portraits portray transformation in students and the aesthetic history that perception holds with portrait painting, the ideological use of student portraits as illustrations of assimilation, and the continued emotional weight those portraits carry in contemporary media. Formal and aesthetic choices by the official school photographer and propagandistic uses by the school’s founder determine the role of nineteen-century assimilationist and racist ideology in the commission and dissemination of CIBS student portraits. Additionally, the appearance of these images in contemporary media and art provide a continued analysis of CIBS portraits as visual representatives of …

Design Thinking In Developing A Visual Brand Identity: Reimagining Pace University’S Art Department Open House Brochure, Alexandra Gallagher

Honors College Theses

No abstract provided.

The Sounds Behind The Scenes: An Analysis Of Sound And Music In The Shining And Bridget Jones’ Diary, Abby Fox

Honors College Theses

No abstract provided.

Pursuing Natural Unity, Consciousness Included, Rowen Cox-Rubien

Scripps Senior Theses

An ontological exploration of consciousness and how it is related to the body and other aspects of physical reality. Framed by David Chalmers' conception of "The Hard Problem", we begin from a physicalist perspective to discuss the problem of mental causation, which is the inquiry of how the mind communicates and interacts with the body. From here we examine the employment of identity reduction to functionalize and therefore physically explain mentality. We find that reductionist methods, the backbone of scientific investigation, do not work to explain conscious experience, because conscious experience is not quantifiable--it is qualitative. Thus we are left …

Visualizations For Cartilage Restoration Method, Klayton Riley

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.

Designing A Website For A Non-Profit Organization, Kristen Lauck

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The purpose of this honors project is to redesign and launch a website for the nonprofit organization Better Future Facilitators. Better Future Facilitators is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps homeless men and women start their own businesses by providing them with the education, skills, and support necessary to be successful and break the cycle of homelessness.

Starting June 3rd, I will be writing website copy, taking photographs, reorganizing content, and designing a simple website layout for betterfuturefacilitators.org via Wix.com’s website creator. This website will allow the organization to better communicate with their target public and create a secure place …

A Thesis Is A Product Is A Tracking, Yixue Li

Theses and Dissertations

In this work, I discuss how global products/ identities are made, transported and consumed, and the inevitable ‘mis-’ in acts of transmission. This research ranges from the miscommunication in languages and linguistics, to the gap between production and consumption. I investigate how things and humans are misread, mispronounced, misfit and mistranslated when they traverse social and cultural borders, arriving at a place in between languages, holding on to and letting go of things that are familiar to neither and both cultures. This work explores diverse media such as publications, videos and installations, and examines how they maybe used to address …

Fragile Oceans, Synthetic Flotsam And Microbial Collaboration – Explorations In The Visual Communication Of The Plastic Crisis, Ivan Langesfeld

Pomona Senior Theses

Scientific evidence that the ocean plastic crisis is larger in scale and more sinister than previously thought continues to mount, but the rate of plastic production is only rising. What will it take to decisively turn the tide against plastic? We need scientists, politicians, and industry changemakers to continue producing knowledge and positive change in the industry, but we need to go further still. This thesis explores art as an alternative visual communication strategy with the capacity to encourage curiosity, empathy, and positive engagement with the issue of ocean plastics. The series of work explores bacterial bioluminescence as an artistic …

การออกแบบเรขศิลป์โดยใช้แนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยมสำหรับอัตลักษณ์ย่านสร้างสรรค์กรณีศึกษา ย่านเจริญกรุง, สรัล ตั้งตรงสิทธิ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยเรื่องการออกแบบเรขศิลป์โดยใช้แนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยมสำหรับอัตลักษณ์ย่านสร้างสรรค์ กรณีศึกษา ย่านเจริญกรุงมีวัตถุประสงค์ 1) เพื่อถอดแนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยมที่นำไปสู่องค์ประกอบการออกแบบเรขศิลป์ 2) เพื่อหาอัตลักษณ์ย่านเจริญกรุงโดยใช้แนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยม และนำเรขศิลป์ที่มีแนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยมมาใช้ในการออกแบบอัตลักษณ์ย่านเจริญกรุง ในการหาองค์ประกอบทางเรขศิลป์ที่มีแนวคิดสอดคล้องกับแนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยม ผู้วิจัยใช้การค้นคว้าข้อมูลจากเอกสาร สัมภาษณ์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญ และวิเคราะห์ข้อมูล ในส่วนของการหาอัตลักษณ์ของย่านเจริญกรุง ผู้วิจัยใช้การค้นคว้าข้อมูลจากเอกสาร ใช้แบบสอบถาม ลงพื้นที่ และวิเคราะห์ข้อมูล ผลวิจัยพบว่าอัตลักษณ์ของย่านเจริญกรุงคือการผสมผสาน 3 วัฒนธรรมด้านศาสนาที่แตกต่างกัน ได้แก่ ศาสนาพุทธนิกายมหายาน ศาสนาคริสต์นิกายโรมันทาคอลิกและศาสนาอิสลาม ในขณะที่องค์ประกอบการออกแบบเรขศิลป์จากแนวคิดปฏิสัจนิยมสามารถสร้างอัตลักษณ์สำหรับองค์กรหรือพื้นที่ ๆ เกี่ยวข้องกับสิ่งที่มีความผิดแปลกจากความเป็นจริง ความเข้าใจดั้งเดิมของมนุษย์ หรือชุดความคิดเดิมในอดีต และ/หรือมีความเกี่ยวข้องกับการแทนค่าบางสิ่งเพื่ออธิบายสิ่งที่ไม่สามารถมองเห็นได้

การออกแบบโฆษณาเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหวสำหรับหลักสูตรการศึกษาโดยทฤษฎีพหุปัญญา, อภิชญา อังคะวิภาต

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีจุดประสงค์ 1) เพื่อสร้างแนวทางในการออกแบบโฆษณาเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหว (Motion graphic Design) โดยใช้ทฤษฎีพหุปัญญา (Theory of multiple intelligences) และ 2) เพื่อหาวิธีการประยุกต์ใช้แนวทางในการออกแบบโฆษณาเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหวสำหรับหลักสูตรการศึกษาโดยใช้ทฤษฎีพหุปัญญาเพื่อการออกแบบอัตลักษณ์ของหลักสูตรให้สอดคล้องกับลักษณะบัณฑิตในอุดมคติของหลักสูตรนั้นๆ เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยในครั้งนี้ ได้แก่ 1) การสัมภาษณ์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านพหุปัญญาจำนวน 7 ท่านและผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหวจำนวน 3 ท่าน 2) การสนทนากลุ่มระหว่างผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านพหุปัญญา ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหวและผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านสื่อสารมวลชนทั้งหมด 3 ท่าน 3) การสัมภาษณ์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการออกแบบโฆษณาเรขศิลป์ 6 ท่าน ด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหว 5 ท่าน ด้านโฆษณา 5 ท่าน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) ทฤษฎีพหุปัญญาสามารถนำมาปรับเปลี่ยนเป็นแนวทางทางการออกแบบได้ 8 ด้าน ได้แก่ รูปแบบของเรขศิลป์ การจัดองค์ประกอบ ตัวอักษร การผสมสี การเชื่อมต่อ จังหวะของภาพ รูปแบบการนำเสนอความคิดสร้างสรรค์ ลักษณะบุคลิกภาพ 2) ระดับความสามารถในปัญญาด้านต่างๆ ในทฤษฎีพหุปัญญาสามารถนำมาหาแนวทางในการออกแบบเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหวได้ 24 ชุดรูปแบบ และ 3) วิธีการประยุกต์ใช้แนวทางในการออกแบบสามารถทำได้โดยการระบุระดับความสามารถในปัญญาด้านต่างๆ ให้สอดคล้องกับอัตลักษณ์ของหลักสูตร แล้วจึงให้นักออกแบบเรขศิลป์เคลื่อนไหวนำข้อมูลนั้นไปเปลี่ยนเป็นแนวทางในการออกแบบทั้ง 8 ด้านโดยเลือกจาก 24 ชุดรูปแบบ

Relational Aesthetics: Creativity In The Inter-Human Sphere, Carl Patow

Theses and Dissertations

RELATIONAL AESTHETICS: CREATIVITY IN THE INTER-HUMAN SPHERE

By Carl Patow, MD, MPH, MBA

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Master of Fine Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019.

Major Director: Pamela Taylor Turner, Associate Professor, Kinetic Imaging, VCU Arts

Relational Art was first described as an art movement in Nicolas Bourriaud’s catalogue for the exhibition Traffic in 1995, and in an eponymous book in 1998. He observed that contemporary artists were shifting the focus of their work away from creating objects of spectacle to interaction with viewers through dialogue. Examination of a sample …

The Day Is Just Another Surface, Brooks M. Heintzelman

Theses and Dissertations

Within a practice founded on both typographic form and language, I have continued to push myself to make work that is more sensitive to place, more contextual, more (hopefully) generous toward a public audience. These pieces might serve as useful instruments of institutional critique, resources for comprehension, or moments in which to interrogate preconceived modes of seeing. I deploy original texts in public spaces in order that they might force viewers to decide how to personally resolve the content they encounter. Is it language or object? Literal or figurative? Graphic design or art? The further I develop this body of …

Singing The Landscape: A Meditation On Song, Sound And Community At The Fall Line Of The James River, Sara Bouchard

Theses and Dissertations

I work in the medium of song. A multidisciplinary artist and composer, I make work that is immersive, time-based and often participatory. I interact with landscape and the complexities of American history, bringing into focus local ecologies through the lens of song.

This document accompanies my thesis performance The Sound of a Stone, an immersive exploration of song, language, ecology and locational listening performed in a 4-channel surround format. In the semi-improvised composition, I sample live vocals, mandolin and found natural objects in a combination of roots music traditions and experimental techniques. Utilizing the software Ableton Live to process …

Parallel Narrative: Short-Video Social Media Platforms’ Influences On Contemporary Narrative, Ruiqi Zhang

Theses and Dissertations

Through the study of Kwai, a popular short-video social media platform in China, this thesis investigates the social issues, media class divides and aesthetics specific to Kwai culture. It further proposes a strategy of artistic practice - parallel narrative - an experiment in video art production and editing techniques that explores new possibilities of narrative in video art. Integrating theoretical research on Post-Internet art and object-oriented ontology, this thesis reveals people’s ability to digest multisource information and shows how mobile technologies and open-source materials contribute to the formation of parallel narratives.

The Visual Realism Continuum: The Roles Of High And Low-Fidelity Pictures, Stuart Medley

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The human brain has a tolerance for varied views of objects which allows it to regard new impressions in the eye as objects perhaps previously seen but under different viewing conditions. This tolerance is a function of visual constancies, where the brain knows that the eye is looking at a familiar object but under changed ambient lighting conditions, position or distance, and so on. Lower fidelity pictures, deployed by the image-maker, allow for these more generalized views of objects to be presented to the viewer rather than the decontextualized moment of reality captured in the photograph. Pictures, either representing visual …