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'A Retro Arcade Shoot With Friends' & 'Fine Girl Fall', René Bassó-Medel, Ava Bunton

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.

'Sunce Na Plaži' & 'Bering Sea, Sockeye Salmon Run', Natalia Celebrini, Tyler Deal

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.

'Crater Lake, 2024'; 'Spirits'; & 'Tzatziki Sauce Recipe', Michaela Velleno, Isabela Cordovez, Teia Kornienko

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Holy' & 'The Beauty Of Light', Christianna Gatti, Claire Hughes

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Church Arches'; 'An Artist's Chaotic Canvas'; & 'As You Wish', Amelie Sandoval, Shrishti Dutta, Lorelei Samuel

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Percy Jackson Book Cover Redesigns' & 'American West', Elizabeth Ridley, Colin Pope

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Beauty Is Terror'; 'Untitled'; & 'Grit & Glam', Kennedy Ray, Linnaea Marks, Kyle Flora

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Playing With Color' & 'Kiley's Diaries', Kelli Ayon, Kiley Gustin

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Old Town Kyoto' & 'Is This All You See?', Jolina Chen, Luiza Rufeisen

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Care'; 'Euphoric'; & 'Unintentional Makeup', Itzel Camarillo-Gonzalez, Gillian Crow-Juarez, Zoe Shaikh

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'The Tale Of Peter Rabbit'; 'Snowy Day'; & 'Bubba', Jenni Martinez, Erin Robinson, Jacob Crock

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Informal Hand-Drawn Letter To My Hometown' & 'Heart Of The Country', Cezar Gomez, Jane O'Neil

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Natural Highs F***Ing Exist' & 'Avila Beach: Where The Forest Meets The Sea', Frank Cooke, Jennifer Leo

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Model 0: “Winston”' & 'Fight Club If It Slayed', Emily Hill, Celeste Ibarra

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'Shooting Expired Konica Sxg 100' & 'The Glamorous Life', Anushe Irani, Layla Bilal

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'The Power Of The Sun' & 'Fashion At Mdo', Asher Dolinger, Taz Fruhauf

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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'Dune' & 'Sprinting In Sunlight', Lucas Vergara, Amanda Keith

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Table Of Contents, Anushe Irani

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Opening, Taz Fruhauf

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Cover, Tyler Deal

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Full Issue, Erin Robinson, Michaela Velleno

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Towards The Non-Spectacle: Responses To Necropolitics In The Artwork Of Teresa Margolles And Maya Watanabe, Leslie Anne Condon

Masters Theses

How do we engage with artwork that addresses complicated histories

of colonialism and political violence, specifically intangible and

incomprehensible violence? Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ 2005 work, Lote

Bravo, is named after and composed of the soil from a mass grave site

discovered in 1995 in the southeastern corner of Ciudad Juárez, a city known

internationally for the femicide that has continued to haunt its streets and

peripheries since the 1990s. Peruvian filmmaker Maya Watanabe’s 2019 film

Liminal cinematically documents the official exhumation of two mass graves

in the Ayacucho and Huánuco regions of the Andes highlands, where

thousands of …

Victim/Perpetrator, David D. Moy

Theses and Dissertations

Throughout this text, David Moy will discuss the inner working of his investigation on image overload and materialization. Through tactics of blurring, erasure, and layering he achieves obfuscation in his printed media. In doing so, he questions the compounding nature of image/text that negate themselves in the larger context of time in the digital age.

Serious Music With Bea Witkin: An Upper West Side Audio Walk, Megan Hattie Stahl

Theses and Dissertations

Serious Music with Bea Witkin is a site-specific audio walk on New York City’s Upper West Side produced by Megan Hattie Stahl. This immersive, musical documentary explores and extends the life and work of composer Beatrice Witkin (1916-1990). Across four stationary chapters and three walking interludes, participants follow a one-mile route from Riverside Park to Straus Park by way of Witkin’s longtime residence on West End Avenue. Through guided narration, archival music, interviews and recordings of contemporary musicians sight-reading a 1985 string quartet piece by Witkin, Serious Music invites listeners to consider where music begins and ends.

Witkin, who graduated …

You Get That From Me, Robyn Duncan

Theses and Dissertations

You Get That From Me is a mixed-media, collage-based film that integrates personal portraits, allegorical maps, and digital collages with spoken narration to craft a stylistic memoir of a pivotal period in my life: the transition from childhood to motherhood.

Teaching Documentary Filmmaking As Social Advocacy: The Case Of The Yangon Film School, Violet Valdez, Mon Mon Myat

Department of Communication Faculty Publications

This is a descriptive case study of Yangon Film School (Yangon, Myanmar) in a setting of protracted civil conflict that has persisted since 1968. It examined the school’s approach in the teaching of documentary filmmaking and analyzed key aspects of the school’s operations. Findings show that the documentary filmmaking taught in the school was informed by social advocacy. This was fostered through the students’ participation in films commissioned to the school by civil society organizations and the practice of participatory filmmaking. The school stood out in the Myanmar setting for its dual character as a training center and a production …

Area Of Effect The History And Effects Of Linguistic Choices Made In The Final Fantasy Franchise, Camille Mcdermott

Theses and Dissertations

The Final Fantasy franchise, a seminal role-playing game (RPG) series, has captivated a global audience since its inception in 1987. This thesis, titled "Area of Effect: The History and Effects of Linguistic Choices Made in the Final Fantasy Franchise," explores the intricate use of language that has shaped the series' identity and influenced its worldwide fanbase. The linguistic landscape of Final Fantasy is as diverse and dynamic as its fantastical worlds, evolving from simple text boxes to fully voiced narratives. This study examines the historical context and evolving linguistic choices throughout the series, highlighting how these decisions enrich the gaming …

Soundwaves Of Change: How Paperboy Prince Redefined Activism Through Art In Bushwich, Omar Kwesi Hurlock

Selected Full-Text Master Theses 2021-

This thesis examines how Paperboy Prince, a Bushwick-based artist and activist, employs multimedia art forms to challenge social norms and foster community change. Through analysis of their music, performances, and community initiatives, particularly at the Love Gallery, this research demonstrates how Prince combines artistic expression with grassroots activism to address gentrification, economic inequality, and social justice in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The study employs theoretical frameworks including post-cinema theory, Afrofuturism, and digital performance theory to analyze Prince's work. Key findings reveal how Prince's artistic practice creates new modes of political discourse through: (1) the fusion of digital and physical activism, (2) the …

Glitched Humanity: A Digital Media Arts Advocacy Project, Shelly Maloney

Teaching Resource Archive

This lesson includes an original sample project and website that directs students towards learning how to utilize digital glitch art to create advocacy or raise awareness for the social, cultural, environmental, or political issue of their choice. It is designed to engage students in critical thinking skills, cross-curricular connections, reflective writing, digital art making, group discussion, and peer review.

Artists can use video and other media sources to explore the self-destructive tendencies of human nature (i.e. violence/war, consumption, and/or carelessness/environmental neglect) or other social, cultural, or political issues using digital manipulation, layered imagery, sound, and video.

Nft And The Future Of Art, Ying Kang

MA Theses

This thesis focuses on exploring the history of NFT, the effects of NFT on art and the future of art. There are many factors affecting NFT, including human subjective factors, such as the pursuit of economic interests and the psychology of blindly following the trend, as well as objective factors, such as macroeconomic policy changes, technological developments, COVID-19 pandemic, cultural advocacy for diversity and democratization, Russia-Ukraine conflict, collapse of major cryptocurrency entities, financial regulation, and endogenous flaws. These economic, political, technological, social, cultural and other factors are complicated and mutually influential, leading to NFT ups and downs in the past. …