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Exploring Environments, Idil Cilingiroglu

Theses and Dissertations

My search for creative inspiration often leads to explorations in natural and built environments. Being physically immersed in an environment offers endless vantage points, as well as points of focus; allowing all senses to function as receptors of surrounding data. Observations stimulate thoughts and ideas, which inspire experiments. Projects are born, sometimes out of the smallest details. In a series of projects I explore the possibilities of using physical environments as primary source of inspiration and input in the creation of tools that function in design contexts.

Unloosed: Designing Participatory Objects, Laura Schlifer

Theses and Dissertations

The ubiquity of technology has mediated the means of receiving content through digital networks; users have complete control over receiving, shaping, and sharing information. In contrast to the inherent elasticity of these networks, physical pieces of communication often manifest through a closed and highly controlled process. However, the increased prominence of user-interaction with media provides an opportunity to evaluate the design process as it applies to the creation of physical objects. Throughout much of my work, I investigate the potential for unloosening the control of designed objects by inviting others into the design process. By considering the audience as active …

Side A, Side B, Hong Zhang

Theses and Dissertations

I believe that aural and visual language can contribute and inspire one another. Sound evokes the emotions and the senses. It is a catalyst for our imagination. It can be combined with imagery for the purpose of communication, harmoniously or contrastively. Both have corresponding characteristics—color/timbre, brightness/pitch, length/duration, scale/volume, composition/rhythm—and thus provide ways of transforming each other back and forth as input and output. Computer technology has increased the ease of transforming and manipulating the two. In my thesis project, I explore sound visualization, sound/image transformation and combination.

Designing Connection, Laurie K. Culshaw

Theses and Dissertations

Social connection is an essential human need. Personal connections exist at a variety of depths and within different types of relationships. Small daily choices determine the strength of those connections and their impact on our well-being as individuals and as a community. Modern society and technology have altered the speed and channels of connection, increasing communication but decreasing meaningful connection. It is critical to understand how the methods of communication affect the depth of connections. Through a series of participatory graphic design projects, I analyze the strengths and weaknesses of one-on-one, small group and community connections within an established taxonomy …

No Soap Radio: A Dialectic Examination Of The Intersection Of "High" And "Low" Forms Of Art And Popular Culture, Drew Mintz

Art and Art History Honors Projects

No abstract provided.

Robert Smithson, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Smithson, Robert (1938-1973), a prominent U.S. artist, original critic, and theorist, is known for the Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah's Great Salt Lake and other earthworks. He was a continuing influence and significant voice with respect to environmental art and postmodernism, introduced concepts such as entropy and geological time into the making and discussion of art, and focused on the intertwining of text and visual structure or surface.

Maille, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

24 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. "As a weaver, recreational student of topology and collector of wire entanglement puzzles, I've been studying chainmaille and the many variations of meshes that can be made with interlocking rings. The book 'Maille' is a collection of images from this research which have been heavily processed and rendered using a variation on halftoning: a mesh of differently sized white rings. The volume is hinged together with metal rings like those used to make the weaves in the photographs."--artist's statement.

Fluid Realities: A Light On Life's Journey, Neta-Grace Coleen Shepherd

Theses and Dissertations

Images of nature and family comprise the gestural and abstracted interpretations of my life events. I use my photographs as inspiration for my work. I fuse layers of color, light, and line into glass and onto wood to suspend a personal memory. I want to capture those moments that flit by in life and envelop them in the media.

In my fused glass work, I manipulate color, light, and line. In these pieces, I layer frits and sheets of glass onto an abstract sculpted relief of fiberglass and fuse them into one thick slab. The sculpted relief creates a textured …

Pools / Dreams / Parental Gaze, Tal Gafny

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a testimony of thoughts and ideas that have been circulating in my studio for the past few years, in their current form. It is also an experiment in writing an autobiographical piece of prose. It was written parallel to, and after, making the film Double Take with Perrin Turner. The film is an exploration of a number of relationships, related and sometimes haunted by one another. I wish for this text to operate not only as an after-the-fact recollection of thoughts, but also in relation to what will follow it – similarly to the way a trailer …

Ar Physics: Transforming Physics Diagrammatic Representations On Paper Into Interactive Simulations., Yao Zhou

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A problem representation is a cognitive structure created by the solver in correspondence to the problem. Sketching representative diagrams in the domain of physics encourages a problem solving strategy that starts from 'envisionment' by which one internally simulates the physical events and predicts outcomes. Research studies also show that sketching representative diagrams improves learner's performance in solving physics problems. The pedagogic benefits of sketching representations on paper make this traditional learning strategy remain pivotal and worthwhile to be preserved and integrated into the current digital learning landscape. In this paper, I describe AR Physics, an Augmented Reality based application that …

The Living Torrents: Hokusai's "Journey Around The Waterfalls Of Various Provinces" (2014), Theory & History Of Art & Design Department, Elena Varshavskaya (H791 Instructor)

Ukiyo-e Prints Course | Exhibition Catalogs

"This book invites its readers to join RISD WS 2014 Japanese Prints class for an edifying expedition to Japan’s eight waterfalls portrayed by Katsushika Hokusai, an ukiyo-e preeminent artist, in his masterpiece print series “A Journey to the Waterfalls of Various Provinces.” In fact, this expedition is an academic endeavor undertaken by a collective of students who tried their hand at curating a museum exhibition as their art history course project. ..." -- Foreword, The Living Torrents: Hokusai's " Journey Around the Waterfalls of Various Provinces"

Contributing Authors

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Abecedarian, Ashley May, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

volumes : color illustrations . Vol. 1. A-M. Using high quality scans of vintage postcards, artist Ashley May creates kaleidoscopic digital collages. She re-purposes the traditional use of post-cards into a 21st century communiqué: the GIF animation. In collaboration with Endless Editions, Ashley May designed an artist book inspired by her GIF animations. This 14-page, accordion-bound book spirals outwards into a 28 x 28 inch circle, mimicking an animation in physical space. -- Limited Editions website. Accordion variation, fan binding. Book can be folded into a carousel variation structure.

Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Blue Edition Samsung Galaxy, John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos

Visionaire

10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari

"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity …

Momentum: The Ripple Of Art Activism From Idle No More, India Rael Young

Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas

No abstract provided.

Thea 474: Digital Animation—A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio, Steve Kolbe

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

This portfolio provides an overview of student learning in my Digital Animation course - THEA 474. This report serves as documentation of my attempts to define and refine the course goals, activities, assignments, and assessment. Through this portfolio, I hope to more effectively see ways to make this course more impactful for the students, but also to lay the groundwork for additional courses within the major in order to open up a more realized and robust animation focus at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film. A facet of student learning that I plan to document and improve upon …

1 In 3: Women Have Been Slapped, Pushed, Or Shoved, Jaime Shafer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume unpaged. Cover title. Limited edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Printed at the Black Rock Press using a Vandercook Universal I and inkjet pigments. Letterpress printed from metal type and polymer plates on Stonehenge paper. Inkjet printed on Hahnemuhle Duo and Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art paper. Found and altered photographs"--Colophon. Hedi Kyle's flag book structure, bound in paper over boards. An outline of a woman's head is printed on the back of the accordion spine. Text letterpress printed in red and grey on flags and cover boards. Flags feature inset altered portraits of female …

Shift, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 box, contains 5 books and 3 folded cards. Each artist created a small book of identical dimensions to reflect her interpretation of the word "SHIFT". Edition limited to 20 copies, numbered and signed by artists. Five books issued in drop-lid box, covered in grey fabric with paper title label and magnetic closure. CONTENTS 1825-1862-1918 (Shift) / K. Baldwin -- Shape shifting / Denise Bookwalter -- Shift in position / Sarah Bryant -- A shift in perspective / Macy Chadwick -- Redirecting shift / Tricia Treacy.

Memories Of Science, Dorothy A. Yule, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Limited edition of fifty copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Typeset in Garamond, Latin Condensed and Copperplate, designed with Adobe CS5 and letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine. Engravings are from the Dover Pictorial Archives and 'The complete encyclopedia of illustration' by Johann Georg Heck. Star maps.. by Susan Hunt Yule. Music.. by Doug Yule. lyrics.. by Dorothy A. Yule"--Colophon. "Recorded, mixed and mastered at: Avast! Studio, Seattle, Washington. Engineer: Jonny Mendoza; Produced by Doug Yule and Jonny Mendoza. Performed by Big Red Dog. Doug Yule: Guitar, Vox, Shakers. Cary Lung: Mandolins. Tom Collicott: Guitar. Dan Yule: Violin, Bass"--Audio disc. …

A Field Guide To Weeds: With Illustrated Taxonomy Of The Most Pernicious And Troublesome Plants, Kim Beck, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 96 unnumbered pages. "Third edition of 1500 copies, 2014."--Title page verso. A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Becks innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivythe very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoidcreep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the readers attention to …

The Riso Book: Portland, Colpa Press (San Francisco, Calif.), Publication Studio Portland, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

103 unnumbered leaves . Title from publisher. "Copyright Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak"--Title page. "Colpa, in collaboration with Publication Studio Portland presents 'The Riso Book: Portland', the fourth installment of a traveling publication project and exhibition between Los Angeles, Marfa, San Francisco, New York, and Portland.The series standardizes the conditions of production underlying artist publications and presents the book as exhibition. 'The Riso Book', inspired by the format of Seth Siegelaub and Jack Wendler's 1968 'Xerox Book', is a geographic survey of contemporary artists with similar practices across several cities. In Portland, 5 artists will work over the course of …

American Manifesto, Todd M. Thyberg, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map . "With a tip of the hat to printers and activists of the past, American Manifesto calls the United States citizens to action on a number of national concerns--our country's health, leadership, and environment, to name a few"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015. "If America really is the best country on earth... why do so many of our people go hungry? Why do our leaders consistently work for corporate interests rather than individuals' rights? How can our leaders, the media, and we the public still …

Fabrik, Linda Welch, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

84 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from book cover. Unique artist book, signed by artist on page [3] of cover. Coptic binding. Pages incorporate acrylic painting, screen print ink, found papers, book board. "A visual flipbook of text, color and pattern," this one-of-a-kind painted book is by Linda Welch. Her abstract, layered, mixed media books incorporate oil painting, collage, screen printing, found book pages and wax."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

New Horizons, Bruno Van Den Elshout, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

212 pages : all color illustrations. Title from case. Edition of 2012 numbered copies. Flatbook. Issued in paper wrapper and slipcase. Book design: Rob van Hoesel. On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roof of a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one year round. The camera-machine takes a picture of the horizon once every hour of 2012. That is 8,785 images. When these images start to arrive from the machine, the horizon suddenly reveals his surprisingly overwhelming appearance. Gray, grim, ordinary, …

Visible Spectrum, Conveyor Magazine, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

9 volumes : color illustrations .

Unbound, Jessica Peterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. "'Unbound' was designed and produced in a single month. The typefaces are Sabon and Scala Sans. The text is letterpress-printed on handmade cotton and abaca paper."--colophon. "Unbound is a limited edition artists' book which honors the veterans of Prince Edward County's 1959 school lock out ... The book was conceived and designed by artist Jessica Peterson and recounts the closing of the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, from 1959 to 1964. Unbound tells this story of these events with timelines, archival evidence, and collected …

Instant Books, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

5 pamphlets : illustrations. Collection title from slipcase. A collection of five previously published "instabook" pamphlets. Each pamphlet autographed/ individually numbered in a limited edition. High anxiety/Team evil (2004) -- Brains & spines (2005) -- Enclosure exposure: data protection patterning (2007) -- Box (2008) -- Join the art party of the U.S.A. (2011). Library has Instant Books No 36.

Whipstock, A.B. Gorham, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

36 pages : color illustrations Cover title. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. " ... written, designed & letterpress printed by AB Gorham at Small Craft Advisory Press, Tallahassee, FL, for the MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Typeset in Scala & printed on a Vandercook 15-21 with photopolymer plates & linoleum block on handmade cotton/abaca paper"--Colophon. "Laid in a Japanese two-flap hard cover with title (once incised, once printed) on two flaps ... Laid out in a shifting grid, Gorham's poetic text and the book's simple but elaborate structure reinforce the …

Ni Queue Ni Tête, Vera Molnar, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded sheet (46 unnumbered pages) : illustrations Issued in a clamshell box with paper cover label and compact disc mounted inside front cover. Includes a pamphlet with text by Jean-Yves Bosseur. Edition of 100 copies. Inkjet print on paper. Accordion book. In French. Library has copy no. 46. Purchased for Fleet Library at RISD through the Anne (MFA 92), Michael, and Amelia Spalter Fund. SEI

Channel & Flow, Sarah Mcdermott, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

36 unnumbered pages (some folded) : color illustrations. Issued in an edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. Bound in a modified long-stitch format. Letterpress printed and screenprinted with hand-made paper covers. Binding structure: Codex. "Channel and Flow was published by the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.. The Kidney Press is Sarah McDermott. She made this book in the spring of 2014. The images are letterpress printed and screenprinted on Shikoku paper. The typeface is Avenir, letterpress printed from polymer plates. The cover is handmade paper from milkweed collected and retted at Ruocco Family Farm in Sandgate, VT, mixed …

The Square, Islam Aly, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Red oak wooden covers, laser cut, fore-edge laser etching, coptic binding, orange linen thread. "Tahrir Square in Cairo became the focal point and the most effective symbol of the protests in January and February 2011. For 18 days Egyptians repeated the slogan: The People Want to Bring down the Regime (al-sha'b yurid isqat al-nizam) until the regime stepped down on the 11th of February 2011. This book focuses on the revolution slogan. Using Arabic Kufic script the words of the slogan are repeated in an ascending sequence. Section 19 contains the English translation for the slogan The People Want to …