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It Is Almost That (Box), Siglio Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

8 booklets, 1 leaf , 2 sheets : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. A boxed set of nine folded and saddle-stitched booklets with photocopies or silkscreened dust-jackets signed by authors / artists. Found Pages from Antinova's Memoirs / Eleanor Antin -- Nude film / Fiona Banner -- Time / Ann Hamilton -- Inspection / Jane Hammond -- Psychic / Susan Hiller -- Dorchester boxers / Helen Kim -- A house of dust / Alison Knowles -- Notes for the translation / Molly Springfield -- Hexen II; 4 diagrams / Suzanne Treister -- From the journal Notes on living locally …

Risd Pod 2011 Evaluation & 2012 - 2015 Strategic Plan, Project Open Door

Publications + Documents + Videos

This evaluation report and strategic plan documents key findings of an external review of Project Open Door and agreement and the 2012-2017 Project Open Door Strategic Plan. The plan represents consensus among Project Open Door faculty, staff, and Dean of Graduate Studies, Research and Engagement, and Advisory Committee members to strengthen and institutionalize the program. Dean Phillips asked that the review “...evaluate the current condition of the program, confirm its scope, scale, and feasible and fruitful staffing scenarios, explore ways to successfully institutionalize it both within and outside of RISD, and identify pathways for the future, including greater visibility for …

Vantage Points, Justin Chen, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Visionaire 61: Larger Than Life Deluxe Edition, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Greg Foley

Visionaire

18 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations Limited edition of 250 copies. Contributor list: Lady Gaga, Inez & Vinoodh, Ridley Scott, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Marina Abramovic, Martin Schoeller, Josephine Meckseper, Richard Phillips, Steven Klein, Ryan McGinley, Karl Lagerfeld, Massimo Vitali, Steven Meisel, Ed Ruscha, Marilyn Minter, Rob Pruitt, Bruce Weber, Sam Taylor-Wood, Guido Mocafico, Mario Sorrenti, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Doug Aitken, Tom Sachs. "Visionaire broke the Guinness World Record for the largest magazine ... with a Deluxe Edition at 57.48 x 79 inches ... In this history-making issue, Visionaire gives iconic artists and image-makers the forum to take their visions …

Language Möbius, Jana Sim, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 sheet in box. Title from container. Edition of 15. "Language Möbius is about my speaking process. The loop in my brain goes like this: hearing English, thinking in Korean, translating, then speaking in English. Language Möbius can be cut in half through the center twice. With each cut the sentences of the layers are cut in half, making them illegible. The final two rings lined together symbolize the two language tangled up in my head while in translation, which is why the sentences can't be read. The Möbius strip was letterpress printed using polymer plates on Somerset at Columbia …

On Thin Ice In A Blizzard, Paula Mccartney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

36 unnumbered pages : all black and white illustrations Edition of 500. "Snow begins to fall, grows denser, and obliterates my view while exposing the cosmos. Ice shifts, opening a beautiful black void. A wondrous view as I begin my descent. On Thin Ice, In a Blizzard is a subseries of my project, A Field Guide to Snow and Ice. While all of the images in the field guide are excerpts of natural landscapes--just not all snow and ice--the images in this book were constructed in the darkroom. A winter of my imagination."--Paulamccartney.com. Stapled. Black paper cover cut-out in a …

Zipo : An Exploration Of Language In Unusual Juxtapositions, Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 case. Alternate Titles: Wooden Clouds; Woo_den\c·loud}s Poems. Title from box cover. Edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies. "Of the infinite number of possible combinations of 'Wooden Clouds' fifty variations have been selected to correspond with the number of editioned books as shown in the samples here. The composition with the red marker [on inside bottom of case] is the dedicated arrangement for this copy."--Colophon, verso. Red and orange cloth case with front panels that close with a central zipper. Laid into case: 3 unfolded sheets (title page, preface, colophon) and 12 panels, each panel with words printed …

The Infinite Between Us, Inge Bruggeman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : color ill., folded maps. "This book was conceived as a residency project for the Atelier Vis-à-Vis in Marseille, France. It was printed on Akatosashi paper in an edition of 20 copies and completed during the spring and summer of 2011 by Inge Bruggeman. The imagery was printed on a Ledeuil etching press and a Vandercook SP15 repro proof press... The text was letterpress printed in Inge's studio in Portland, Oregon on a Vandercook 219AB, where the binding work was also completed."--Colophon. The map imagery for this book was inspired by a collection of books given to …

Caterpillar, Lyle Howe

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Development Of An Expert System To Aid In The Selection Of Sustainability Design Engineering Methods, Pedro Renato Acosta

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The objective of this thesis is to present the development of an expert system to aid designers in the selection of design methods, in particular for sustainability methods. When practicing engineers need help in their design process, they look for design methods and tools; this is a challenge especially for inexperienced engineers in the sustainability area. Engineers, due to time constrains, will only utilize one or few methods during their professional life. The origin of this situation can be traced to engineering education, where it is typical that an instructor prefers one or few methods in particular, and even when …

Phronesis Through Praxis: Cultivating The Habit Of A Rhetorical Disposition In Positive Deviance Action Research, Lucia Dura

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Positive deviance is an asset-based, community-driven, problem-solving approach to social change premised on the idea that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges (www.positivedeviance.org). Positive deviance has been used in over 40 countries to address issues as diverse as productivity in the workplace, infection and disease prevention, education, and child trafficking. This dissertation situates positive deviance within the areas of social change and change studies in the discipline of …

Indentifying And Understanding User Preferences In Generic Planning Tools, Grisel Ventura

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Planning is an important cognitive work activity. To support this complex task, the development of planning tools is important to support people during decision-making and problem-solving tasks. Nowadays, a large number of manual and electronic tools support this complex activity; manual and electronic planning tools aid people in creating strategies for effective work performance. However, there is limited information on the design of generic planning tools people use for their activities, and why people choose to use the planning tool they do. Some examples of generic tools for planning are calendars, checklists, agendas, etc.

To answer this question, this research …

Karen Azoulay: Carnation Thunder, Liz Linden

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Space: A Discovery Of Visual Language, Kelley White

Theses and Dissertations

Space is a visual communicator. The act of perceiving space is a neurological soiree that projects and negotiates meaning in our constructed world. The poetry that we observe within space is tied directly to our emotions and to previous experience. Within ourselves, we each have particular feelings, unconscious or not, relating to height, length, and depth, as well as light and shadow. For example, a long, narrow hallway may elicit anxiety, while an open, sunlit nave in a cathedral may bring about feelings of serenity and joy. Our observations and interactions within the perceptual confines of space reveal clues to …

Renditions, Nathan Halverson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis includes ideas and explorations behind my MFA thesis work and the work that that preceded it in late 2010 and early 2011. In it, I use a creative text by Gertrude Stein, in which she reveals ways that writing reveals and creates language and culture, to illustrate similar ideas regarding field recording and appropriation in my art practice. I use this thesis writing to investigate practices and relationships between media and how these practices can encourage an active, participatory, listening and looking. It also contains discussion of the use of popular music in torture, which inspired Rendition(s), and …

Painting Parisian Identity: Place And Subjectivity In Fin-De-Siecle Art, Chelsea Anne Watts

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis I provide analysis of several nineteenth-century artworks in order to elucidate the connections between place and identity as expressed in visual representations of Paris. I utilize Bakhtin's idea of the dialogical as a means of identifying multiple subject positions that might be accessed by particular individuals who live in socially constructed spaces specific to fin-de-siècle Paris. I discuss the construction of three performed identities unique to nineteenth-century Paris: the Flâneur, the bohemian, and the primitivist. In each chapter I will parse out the social construction of the spaces where these identities existed and were performed, and link …

Miscellany, Shelby Childs, Amanda Gibson, Alessandra Dzuba, Shanna Goodwin, Jimmy Guo, Lauren Howard, Brittany Kolar, Sheila Boarman, Jose Gil, Lindsey Rowland, Michael Hendley, Tavidee Hoskins, Christopher Kessler, Michael Hendley, Axel Wright, Spencer Lenaway, Christopher Hiers, Chad Sanderson, Jimmy Guo, Kaela Mcneil

Miscellany

• Art
• Writing

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter, 2011, Wonsook Kim School Of Art And Design

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter

Annual newsletter for the Normal Editions Workshop, School of Art, Illinois State University.

Calliope, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 27

Why I Am Vegetarian, Jamie Kang, '11

BA/BFA Senior Honors Book Gallery

No abstract provided.

My Life As An Art Soldier In Mao's China: Art And Politics, Shaomin Li

Management Faculty Publications

The author narrates how in Mao's China his personal experience took unexpected turns when China dramatically transformed politically, economically, and culturally, and how in reacting to these overwhelming changes he evolved from the role of artist to student activist, businessman, political prisoner and academic. The article focuses on the relationship between art and politics in Mao's China and how the two evolved into what the author characterizes as "market communism" in today’s China.

Mfa11 (Mfa 2011), Sam Fox School Of Design & Visual Arts, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Buzz Spector, Patricia Olynyk, Marshall N. Klimasewiski, John Talbott Allen, Meghan Bean, Shira Berkowitz, Darrick Byers, Jisun Choi, Zlatko Ćosić, James R. Daniels, Kara Daving, Andrea Degener, Kristin Fleischmann, William Frank, Nicholas Mccullough, Jordan Mcgirk, Zachary Miller, Esther Murphy, Kathryn Neale, Christopher Ottinger, Maia Palmer, Nicole Petrescu, Lauren Pressler, Bryce Olen Robinson, Whitney Sage, Donna Smith

Books and Monographs

Catalogue of a culminating student exhibition held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 6-Aug. 1, 2011. Content includes Introduction / Buzz Spector -- Patricia Olynyk -- Marshall N. Klimasewiski -- John Talbott Allen -- Meghan Bean -- Shira Berkowitz / Maggie Stanley Majors -- Darrick Byers, Bryce Olen Robinson -- Jisun Choi -- Zlatko Ćosić -- James R. Daniels -- Kara Daving -- Andrea Degener -- Kristin Fleischmann / Randi Shapiro -- William Frank / Lawrence Ypil -- Nicholas Kania -- Katherine McCullough -- Jordan McGirk / Aditi Machado -- Zachary Miller -- Esther Murphy / Maggie Stanley …

Navigating The Space Of My Body, Ferwa Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores my process of orienting myself within spaces and inhabiting them. It focuses on how I use my own body as an instrument for developing a relationship between the two. A ritual is a social conditioning of the body and Authentic Movement is discovering body’s own route. This paper reviews my process of situating myself within a space by using both of them as the language of my body. It also discusses the development of some of my recent work through understanding the language of my own body.

The Dialectics Of Textile Hand Production : In Search Of Poetic Content : An Enquiry Into The Position Of The Traditional Textile Crafts, Jane Donlin

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis frames the significance of traditional textile hand production as a means of furthering the concept of aesthetic socio-cultural development. It approaches the traditional textile crafts in relation to the proposition that contemporary society is post-traditional and has broken away from nature. By examining the concept of tradition and the processes by which society transforms from the pre-modern context into the late modern, the changing nature of the crafts is explained. The research also examines wider social losses, gains and unforeseen consequences that occur in the continuous process of social transformation. My art praxis is contextualised within the framework …

Southwinds - Spring 2011

Southwinds: The Literary and Arts Magazine of Missouri S&T

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPRING 2011 Southwinds is sponsored by the Department of English & Technical Communication

The Effects Of Seductive Details In An Inflatable Planetarium, Sean Gillette

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Astronomy is becoming a forgotten science, which is evident by its relatively low enrollment figures compared to biology, chemistry, and physics. A portable inflatable planetarium brings relevance back to astronomy and offers support to students and educators by simulating realistic astronomical environments. This study sought to determine if learning is improved in an inflatable planetarium by adhering to the design principles of the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML), specifically the coherence principle, in an authentic classroom. Two groups of 5th grade students of similar ability were purposefully assigned using a 1-teacher-to-many-students format with mean lesson lengths of 34 minutes. …

Re:Chicago, Louise Lincoln, Robert Cozzolino, Wendy Greenhouse, Kirsten M. Jensen, Lynne Warren, Susan Weininger, Corey Postiglione, Darby English, Jamie Shaw, James Elkins, David Travis, Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Lynne Warren, Jason Foumberg, Ed Marszewski, Matthew Girson, Gregory J. Harris, Mary Trent, James Yood, Mary Gedo, Laura Fatemi, Carol Adams, Franz Schulze, Esther Sparks, James Rondeau, Anne Burke, Ed Burke, Tim Samuelson, Neil Harris, Paul Klein, Mary Ann Papanek-Miller, Lewis Manilow, Powell Bridges, Harlan J. Berk, Ed Maldonado, Peter Selz, Cecile Whiting, Carlos Tortolero, Dennis Adrian, Michael Weinstein, Robert Clifford, Richard Holland, Duncan Mackenzie, Lanny Silverman

DePaul Art Museum Publications

No abstract provided.

Jack - Height Adjustable Office Desk Mechanism, John Walsh

Other

This mechanism was developed out of the increasing requirement for individual users to be able to adjust the height of their desk to an ergonomically correct position for their physicality. Sitting at a standard height desk (usually 720-740mm) for long durations has been linked to health problems, including back and posture problems and DVT, for those who fall either side of the average user in terms of anthropometric height range. A typical problem with "systems furniture" which is widely installed in most corporate open-plan offices is that components are "shared" for cost, functionality and aesthetic purposes. Typically, this means that …

Spiritual Nature, Carolyn Elaine Kent

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Spiritual Nature by Carolyn Elaine Kent.

Ua68/17/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Theatre & Dance Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by the department of Theatre & Dance including theatrical posters and programs, a newsletter, brochures, and more.