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Review Of Islamische Textilkunst Des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Problemne, Edited By Karel Otavsky., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Problemne. Edited by KAREL OTAVSKY. Riggisberger Berichte 5. Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 1997. Pp. 219 + 214 figs.

Focusing on textiles of Egypt and North Africa in the Fatimid period (A.D. 909-1171), this volume presents the edited proceedings of a scholarly conference on medieval Islamic textiles held at the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, Switzerland, 10-11 November 1995. Eighteen papers (published in English, French, or German) by fourteen authors are organized in three sections that deal with the functions, inscriptions, and weaving techniques, followed by a bibliography of references cited, a list of illustrations, and the authors' …

Blanket Statements, Issue 60, Spring 2000

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 60, Spring 2000

Zephyr: The First Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Matthew Bibeau, Sarah Crocker, Jessica Locicero, Andrew Shuttleworth, Joseph Sullivan

Zephyr

This is the first issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.

Mixed Media March 18, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 18, 2000 issue includes articles on mullets, apparel events at Woods Gerry and Fort Thunder, Spring Break, Fort Thunder, the death of the actor Jim Varney, and the band Beulah, along with the comic "r&n dy" by Travis, illustrations by Brie, event notices, and other announcements.

Nexus, Spring 2000 Pt. 2, 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.

Mixed Media March 2, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 2, 2000 issue includes articles on student life, mullets, things to do in Providence, a J.C. Walker retrospective at MoMA, RISD soccer team the Sacs, and Mt. Hope Learning Center, along with the comic "Ben" by Frenzer, event notices, and other announcements.

Oh, What A Tangled Web: Three Designs For Web-Based Courses, Sally A. Struthers, Ned Young

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

The presenters have created three Web-based courses in three different formats; the Business of Art (a cross-disciplinary course in management and art) the history of photography, and principles of management. Each course is demonstrated and the creation processes are explored with the participants.

Art Context: Memory Of Surfaces: An Installation By Ernesto Pujol, David Henry, Ernesto Pujol

Journals

Exhibition Notes, Number 9, Fall 1999. The Esthetics of Knowledge: A Conversation between David Henry and Ernesto Pujol. The following conversation took place between David Henry, Head of Education, The RISD Museum, and Ernesto Pujol, Art ConText artist in residence.

Nexus, Spring 2000, 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.

Aha! Vivat Homo Sapiens, Agnieszka Taborska, James Bewley, Szymon Bojko, Conrad Armstrong, Vincent Balistrieri, Heidi Bochain, Sarah Brown, Vale Bruck, Lily Burickson, Marin De Charette, Sarah Dungan, Edie Faig, Matthew Fairbank, Amy Feldman, Jon Fernandez, Hal Forsstrom, Andrea Hackman, Leon Imas, Sherman Kew, Lara Kurtaman, Bri Mcdonnell, Lauren Nassef, Jesse M. Ragan, Allen Spetnagel, Adam Stanforth, Jenny Vovolvski, Ariana White, Chris Yates

Programs

Program for the twelfth and final annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar at the top of the Waterman Building. View the Performance Recording.

Mixed Media Febraury 2, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The February 2, 2000 issue includes introductions from Mixed Media's new editors and articles on the new Cabaret performance "Aha!", novelist Douglas Coupland, complaints about grades at RISD, the pending eviction of Providence bar The Safari Lounge, ideas for the development of the parking lot between the Metcalf and Bank buildings, and soul food, along with the comics "AHA comics" by Allen Spetnagel and "Ben" by Frenzer, event notices, and other announcements.

Memory_Archive_Database V 3.0: Database Culture Is Only Partly A Reflection Of The Rise Of The Internet., Steve Dietz

SWITCH

"Memory_Archive_Database v 3.0" details and discusses the implications of the rising internet database in relation to information, art, and society within the early 2000s. With the internet database, the perpetually updated mass digital archive of information available to the general public. Being as prominent as it is, its holistic effects over the art world has grown tremendously and continues to do so with its expansion into the modern art world. Dietz discusses these implications in length, specifically “database culture” and its effects on new media art as well as different works of new media art which pertain to data archiving. …

Editors Notes, Brett Stalbaum

SWITCH

This page performs as a guide to interviews and articles on database programs and the concentrations around it. This issue of Switch sets out to “explore the issues of data and database, in terms of both ontological questions, and how they impinge upon various worlds of art.” There is a wide range of topics such as net.art, exposing trade networks, professional perspectives, contemporary genetic databases as surveillance systems, effects (social and ontological) that database has on life or art, VisiCalc, etoy.com, network art world, and artists at openX symposium at Ars Electronica 1999.

Data Particles — Meta Data — Data Space: "What Is Here Is There Too." The Rig Veda, Frank Dietrich

SWITCH

This article provides a general discussion of the evolution of the World Wide Web and its rapid takeover within many crucial sectors of the modern world such as energy, education, and the military. Dietrich details the function of data and its role as “the heart of everything” that defines the realities of society’s current computer environments. The author cements this idea by using, British mathematician Alan Turing’s insights regarding the computer’s superior symbol universal processing capabilities in comparison to the original symbol processor at our disposal, the human brain.

Mixed Media November 29, 1999, #2, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. This November 29, 1999 issue is the second in a two-part special on the new millenium. It features articles on protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, a student road trip, Neutral Milk Hotel's album "In the Aeroplane over the Sea," and the ten best albums of the millenium, along with the comics "Frenzer" by Ben and "Adventures in Real Life" by Adam Swaab, event notices, and other announcements.

Re: Definition, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An undated painting titled "Re: Definition" by an unknown artist.

Woman Lying In Grass, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An undated woodcarving of a woman lying in the grass by an unknown artist.

2pac, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An undated drawing titled "2PAC" by an unknown artist.

Images Of Pandas, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An undated painting of pandas by an unknown artist.

Colors Of Courage, Tom Nielsen

Morehead State University Art Collection

A 2000 painting of an eagle flying in front of the American flag by Tom Nielsen.

Folk Art Treasures From Guangxi, Kentucky Folk Arts Center, Guangxi Provincial Museum

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2000 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of folk art from the Guangxi Province of China.

2000 Stanley A. Bauman Photograph Collection Index, Stonehill College Archives

Bauman Indexes

Chronological Listing of all negatives taken by Stanley A. Bauman during 2000. The numbers to the left of each entry indicates the envelope those of negatives are found in. Please use this number when requesting contact sheets for images.

Sculpture Rises By Wellness/Recreation Center, Northern Iowa Today, Summer 2000

Art on Campus Documents

Various articles on art at the University of Northern Iowa (also formerly known as Iowa State Teachers College).

Winter/Spring 2001, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

Newspaper format.

Summer 2000, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

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Winter/Spring 2000, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

Newspaper format

Words & Images 2000, University Of Southern Maine

Words and Images

Words and Images is an annual arts and literature publication distributed by the University of Southern Maine.

Editor: Jeanette D'Entremont

Art Editor: Allisson Bouchard

Literary Editor: Sybil Ridge

"Gabba" In Encyclopædia Iranica, Jean-Pierre Digard, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

GABBA (gava in Kurdish and Lori, Īzadpanāh, s.v.; ḵersak in Baḵtīārī, Digard, pp. 128-31), a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This kind of rug is common among the tribes of the Zagros (Kurdish, Lori-speaking ethnic groups, Qašqāʾīs). The first known reference to gabba is found in a farmān by Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 930-84/1524-76) dating to the middle of the 16th century (Opie, 1992, p. 124). Gabbas were said to have originated in …

Fall/Winter 2000, Wmpg 90.9 Fm

WMPG Program Guides

WMPG program guide for Fall/Winter 2000

Includes notes from Program Director, information on shows and events, and schedule.

Textuaries, Patricia Millar Boas

Dissertations and Theses

The paintings, sculpture and digital prints presented for this thesis explore language as a field where sense and non-sense coexist With my focus on the activity of deciphering, both literally and metaphorically, I have examined the play between word as image and image as word. What poetry lies embedded in the strange physicality of familiar graphic marks? What is the pleasure we find, as the poet Robert Pinsky suggests, in language only partly understood?

Following the lead of the Surrealists, who used the camera to investigate the paradoxical notion of reality as a sign, I amassed a collection of newspaper …