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The Illusion Of Art: My Amalgamation Of Illustration And Contemporary Art, Victor Davila

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Drawing on archetypical aspects of human characteristics and personalities, I create images that illustrate our connection to memory, media, and culture. My work is informed by pop culture, including television, movies, cartoons and comic books as it relates to characters in our own physical world and society. The grid is used to represent both childhood games and the frames of a comic strip, where each panel equals an exact moment of time.

Adaptive Technomythography: The Apotheosis Of Machine And Development Of Legend In A System Of Dynamic Technology, Roger Wolf

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Human beings will effectively deify any suitably complex system that cannot be explained through basic haptic interaction. Our culture loves technology. These days it seems we need it to feel whole. In an effort to explore the development of mythology and modular aesthetic in a technological age I have designed and constructed a number of interactive robotic 'organisms' to engage in arbitrary movement in geometric enclosures. Through observation and dialog I seek to assess the extent to which people assign human characteristics to the random and oft times aberrant mechanical behavior. To supplement this endeavor, a fictional astrological system that …

Truths, Realities And The Easily Transmitted Image, Elizabeth Walton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

By the documenting and examining things that are often overlooked in everyday life, I try to find the beauty of these objects, of people, their lives and their homes. I am interested in the current technology and the influence of the easily transmitted image. What is the truth and reality of the images shared by the current youth culture because of the use of camera phones, digital image takers, and the constant image transmissions through online social networking venues such as My Space and FaceBook? The current digital image is no longer a precious object as it was in the …

Our Terrain: How Art Reflects This Historical Dichotomy In Imagery, Meredith Davidson

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is divided into three sections. The first and largest section is an essay about the paradoxical view that Americans have of nature. It explores how art reflects the dichotomy between conservation and exploitation. The essay investigates the historical foundations of this paradox through 19th century landscape painting. It then covers two 20th century art movements, Regional Photography and Earthworks, to reinvestigate the dualistic American outlook. The essay concludes by examining a select group of artists whose work investigates land use and land conservation in modern-day America. The second section is a detailed account of the process of curating …

2007-2008 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

No abstract provided.

Borders, Boundaries And Liminal Spaces

SWITCH

The Borders, Boundaries & Liminal Spaces conference, hosted by Ars Virtua in Second Life and sponsored by CADRE, brought together theorists, scholars, and artists for a three-day discussion of how borders and identities shift in digital spaces. Set within the world of Second Life, the conference explored topics like architecture and archaeology, digital embodiment, posthuman performance, and gaming systems.

Cadre Laboratory/Montalvo Arts Center Research Residency

SWITCH

This article outlines the CADRE Laboratory/Montalvo Arts Center Research Residency, a collaborative program between San Jose State University’s CADRE Institute, the Montalvo Arts Center, and the ZeroOne Biennale. The residency connected artists with academic, cultural, and tech resources from Silicon Valley and across the globe to support projects at the intersection of art and technology.

Project: The Second Life Archetype: The Search For Second Life Urban Legends, Ben Kearns, Mike Yohannes, Wayne Madsen, Teck Liew, Brian Huntley, Vivian Mak, Jacky Chau, Kin Tse, Mikey Araya, David Cheung, Lisa _

SWITCH

Described in this article is the Second Life Archetype project, in which artists used Second Life as a platform to explore identity through the lens of archetypes: the comic book guy, the shaman, and the gamer. Each group used strategies to locate, map, and analyze how these archetypes manifest in Second Life.

Bright Lights On Quiet Streets: Tom Keough’S Nocturnes, Shannon Egan

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

The well-kept city streets lined with trees and old brownstones may seem familiar in the paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Tom Keough, but the neighborhood is disquietingly empty. Keough situates the sidewalk in the immediate foreground of his paintings and compels the viewer to enter into an eerily vacant scene. With few exceptions, Keough leaves the always still and sometimes snowy New York setting largely unoccupied. Nonetheless, Keough conveys human presence in his paintings with the soft glow of lamplight from windows, footprints in the snow, and cars parked along the side. The theme of urban alienation—a paradoxical sense of loneliness …

The Bridge, Volume 4, 2007, Bridgewater State College

the bridge

Volume 4 Staff

Laura Viola Maccarone, Editor-in-Chief
Shaylin Walsh, Editor-in-Chief
Cheryl Tullis, Webmaster
Maria Alonso
Michael Carter
Emily Goodwin
Ben Hogan
Michele Lyons
Shawna Macaulay
Corey Ritch
Charlie Robinson
Eric Smith
Emily Anne White
Derrick Zellmann

Mary Dondero, Faculty Advisor
Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

Jasmine, Makenzie M. Seiple

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Face 2, Geoffrey D. Gaenslen

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Lemons, Erica J. Wiles

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Front Matter: Function // Border // Dysfunction, Carlos Castellanos

SWITCH

After a brief hiatus, Switch returns with Issue 23: Function / Border / Dysfunction, a theme that reflects CADRE Laboratory’s explorations into the evolving landscape of new media. This issue showcases a range of conversations, collaborations, and critical reflections around issues such as failure and borders.

Interview With Saskia Sassen, Joel Slaton

SWITCH

This page features contextual information for Saskia Sassien’s presentation and interview at ISEA2006, held in San Jose, California. The original content was presented as a Flash-based audio file, which is no longer accessible due to the end of Flash Player support. As such, the actual interview is not available on this page. Included on this page is information about the city of San Jose as well as biographical information about Sassen, including details about some of her influential books and projects.

Interview With Lu Jie, Joel Slaton

SWITCH

This page features contextual information for Lu Jie’s presentation and interview at ISEA2006, held in San Jose, California. The original content was presented as a Flash-based audio file, which is no longer accessible due to the end of Flash Player support. As such, the actual interview is not available on this page. Included on this page is information about the city of San Jose as well as biographical information about Lu Jie, including his work as the founder and director of “The Long March: A Walking Visual Display,” a multi-faceted curatorial project that uses the path of Mao’s Long March …

Design Research Quarterly Volume 2 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.

Techno-Art Of Selariu Supermathematics Functions, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this album we include the so called Super-Mathematics functions (SMF), which constitute the base for, most often, generating, technical, neo-geometrical objects, therefore less artistic. These functions are the results of 38 years of research, which began at University of Stuttgart in 1969. Since then, 42 related works have been published, written by over 19 authors, as shown in the References. The name was given by the regretted mathematician Professor Emeritus Doctor Engineer Gheorghe Silas who, at the presentation of the very first work in this domain, during the First National Conference of Vibrations in Machine Constructions, Timişoara, Romania, 1978, …

Complex Factors In Planning The September 11th Memorial Museum At The World Trade Center: Politics, Obstacles, Opportunities And A Planning Model, Anthony M. Gardner

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Calliope, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 23

The Enigma, Jany Cabezas

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Mon Voyage: Paris Through My Eyes, Kristyn Ann Beckman

Honors Program Theses

The topic of MON VOYAGE: Paris Through My Eyes is a journey and exploration of culture. In my years at the University of Northern Iowa studying graphic design, I have always been interested in how my art can interpret my insights into my own world. While exploring this idea of art as interpretation, I began considering my own culture and my lack of knowledge of other cultures. Thus began the dream of traveling into a new culture and documenting the experience through my subconscious vision. I wanted to document a culture not as a tourist but as someone studying a …

Reunion: A Journey Through History, Symbolism, And Fear, Vanessa Laure Fassie

Theses and Dissertations

The contents here in examine the artistic process undertaken by Vanessa Fassie to create the mixed media work, reunion. The subjects of fear, archetypal symbolism, personal and collective histories were examined through research, archival evidence, video, sound, movement, and installation. reunion, examines not only the powers of personal and collective histories through the symbolic language of archetypes, but also how fear manifests and evolves through time. The culmination of this work was the creation of an installation within the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University. This Thesis was created through the use of Microsoft Word 2004.

Beyond Narrative, Jacob Adam Joseph Dodd

Theses and Dissertations

My graduate film at Virginia Commonwealth University, "Nunna Mia e la Barca," explores the traditions behind narrative and documentary film construction. With this project, my goal was to blend narrative story telling techniques - for example continuity editing - with that of documentary approaches in order to communicate the story of my Italian grandmother, Nunna, and her journey on the Andrea Doria in 1956. These documentary approaches focus more on the specific details of Nunna's American home as I have experienced them growing up. Everything in the motion picture frame has been lit, composed, rehearsed, and edited as in any …

Toward A New Kinship Constellation, Nellie Helen Frances Appleby

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis attempts to elaborate on my artwork during my graduate studies, while contextualizing it within the framework of the art world and the works of other artists. A main project during this time was to minimize the singular interpretation and framing of a fine art photographic print, while expanding its possibilities of meaning through the addition of important ephemera and objects such as plants, drawings, moving imagery, conversation and the unknown.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 28 (2007), Joanna E. Evans, Virginia Gunn, Eleanor Knowles Dugan, Jonathan Gregory, Lynne Shultis, Carol Williams Gebel, Mary Horton Robare, Laurel Horton

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Joanna E. Evans

The Gingham Dog or the Calico Cat: Grassroots Quilts of the Early Twentieth Century by Virginia Gunn

Rachel's Tat by Eleanor Knowles Dugan

The Joy of Beauty: The Creative Life and Quilts of Rose Kretsinger by Jonathan Gregory

Analysis of a Late Nineteenth-Century Redwork Quilt Top by Lynne Shultis

The Princess Feather: Exploring a Quilt Design by Carol Williams Gebel

Cheerful and Loving Persistence: Two Historical Quaker Quilts by Mary Horton Robare

The Underground Railroad Quilt Code: The Experience of Belief by Laurel Horton

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Exploring Special Places: Connecting Secondary Art Students To Their Island Community, Mark Graham

Faculty Publications

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This Is The Right Place: Community-Based Art Education At Utah's Springville Museum Of Art, Mark Graham, Sharon R. Gray

Faculty Publications

The human condition in the post-modern world is increasingly nomadic. A sense of displacement and alienation is pervasive. Schools emphasize abstracted knowledge removed from the experience of students. Many people feel detached from the places where they live and have no particular sense of belonging or responsibility toward their communities. Museums can counter this pervasive restlessness and be a powerful source of community renewal. This article draws connections between place-based education theory and the educational mission of the art museum, as illustrated by the Springville Museum of Art. The small town of Springville, Utah enjoys an unparalleled connection with its …

Lost In Atlantis, Garrett Pinder

The Messenger

No abstract provided.

Desolation Row, John Kendall

The Messenger

No abstract provided.