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Tomtom Oracle, Grant B. Wells

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TomTom Oracle explores the conceptual and material processes throughout my body of work as an expression of a psychological tethering to a digital visual experience that removes us from the physical world.

L, M, N, O, P, Matt Jones

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A meditation on my painting and drawing practice in relation to the work of Philip Guston, Nancy Spero, and Frank Moore, among others, just before and during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Enterieri I Një Biblioteke Dhe Shfrytëzimi I Hapësirës, Lirijeta Berisha

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Dizajni është ajo pjesë e përvojes njerëzore, aftësi dhe njohuri e cila është çështje e aftësive të njeriut që të bëj mjedisin e tij të përshtatet më nevojat e tij materiale dhe shpirtërore. Dizajni është një proces racional, logjik për të zhgjedhur probleme. Për termin "procesi i dizajnit" ne gjithashtu mund të lexojme "procesi i zgjidhjes së problemit" i cili në të gjitha format, përvec asaj abstrakte punon më koncensus dhe konsultime. Biblioteka është një koleksionë i kuruar i burimëve të informacionit dhe burimëve të ngjashmë, të zgjedhur nga ekspertët dhe të bërë të arritshëm për një komunitet të përcaktuar …

Enterier I Një Kafeneje/Librari, Dardane Shala

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Në të kaluarën, ambientet e brendshme ishin bashkuar instinktivisht si pjesë e procesit të ndërtimit. Qëllimi i dizajnit të brendshëm është të përmirësojë përvojën e përdoruesit duke menaxhuar më mirë hapësirën në dispozicion në mjedisin e ndërhyrë. Në thelb, kjo është një mënyrë për të transformuar jetën e njerëzve që jetojnë ose shijojnë një hapësirë të caktuar, duke përmirësuar cilësinë e jetës së tyre në këtë përmes dizajnit dhe dekorimit, duke filluar nga dyert, dritaret, muret, dhe orenditë. Ngjyra, forma, hapësira, struktura, modeli, vija dhe drita të jenë udhëzues në botën e dizajnit të brendshëm. Arkitektët e brendshëm bashkëveprojnë me …

A View From The Frontera: A Hispanic-American Raised In Mexico Examines Cultural Perspectives Of Language In America, Perla M. Lauderdale

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This thesis seeks to analyze and understand common social and political perspectives with regard to language in the United States at the beginning of the third decade of the new millenium. Providing supporting data points from my research along the way, I share different anecdotes and my interpretation of their significance. I explain how each of them added to my understanding of common American perceptions about language and its proper use in social and political settings. One of the more pertinent anecdotes described is an encounter with a Hispanic woman that openly discriminated against my use of Spanish at a …

Several Houses, Anthony L. Cudahy

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Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the thinking that informed my painting practice fixated on the purgatorial temporal space of waiting, a questioning of utopian and apocalyptic impulses, and the preservation of deceased artists' archives.

For The Love Of Existence, Paul Joseph Vogeler

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In this thesis, artist Paul Joseph Vogeler discusses his influences and current art practice. He covers topics like Catholicism and mortality, BDSM and erotic art, Tarot, spirits and the afterlife, photography and painting, and bones and relics.

Daphne Odjig: Indigenous Art And Contemporary Curatorial Practices, Lucy Kay Riley

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This thesis examines the history of curatorial practices and scholarship regarding the work and life of Daphne Odjig (1919-2016), a self-taught Canadian artist of Potawatomi and English ancestry, in order to situate her at the crux of the contemporary Indigenous art movement in Canada.

Plein-Air Drawing And Embodied Vision: Hans Hofmann's Landscapes, 1928-1935, Anna H. Tome

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Hans Hofmann (1888-1966) produced over one thousand black and white drawings during his early and mid-career before becoming known as a master of color and abstraction. This text examines landscape drawings made from 1928-1935 that evidence the role of nature, new perceptual theories, and embodied vision in his artistic development.

Ìon, Arlinda Qajani

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Trendet e modës vijnë dhe shkojnë; ndërkohë, vlerat e një shoqërie janë themeluar dhe tregojn karakteristika për besimet dhe kulturën e tyre. Moda nuk është thjesht një imazh ambicioz i një vlere të vjetër të ri-interpretuar por përkundrazi një koncept evokues dhe freskues që portretizon një shoqëri.Edhe pse jemi në kohën post moderne imazhi të cilin ti zgjedh ta prezantosh vetën mund të paragjykohet nga shoqëria e ditëve të sotme,sidomos nëse I takon edhe një race tjetër .Kjo e fundit është tema të cilën dua ta shtjelloj dhe të tregoj se si ka ndikuar racizmi në industrinë e modës. Komuniteti …

The Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet, Or @The_C_U_R_B, Candace B. Thompson

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The Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet (The C.U.R.B.) is an interdisciplinary art project consisting of citizen science experiments, community events, and social media storytelling that collectively examine critical issues of environmental, social, and food-based justice as we face oncoming climate crisis. The project explores lessons learned about/with/from Brooklyn's feral edible plant and animal species, many of whom have long and complicated relationships with humanity. Artist Candace Thompson of The C.U.R.B. forages and processes these beings into food and medicine, and conducts DIY remediation experiments with them in an attempt to mitigate any contamination found therein. She shares her fndings via an …

The Object Memory Palace, Amra Causevic

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I am interested in orchestrating instances of potentiality or concrete possibilities that proposes the futurity of play through means of touch, activation, assembly, and interaction within art spaces. The installation mentioned is composed of found objects and repurposed materials that address themes of place, memory, object-ness, and the archive, through gestural means of poetics and map making. It is an invitation to create new logics and find moments of empathy, connectivity, and hopes for a collective.

Don't Forget Me, I Can't Hide It, Thomas H. Morrill

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Memory, technology, and space are the metaphorical and material players in my work. The video represents an emerging consciousness stuck in a nostalgia-laced, self-referential, emotive loop. It weighs the probability of its experience of life as solipsism. The walls are facsimiles of walls.

A Lesson In Art: Understanding And Questioning Distraction, Play, And Human Nature, Joshua L. Newbend

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In making artwork using stuffed animals and video performance, I have been able to construct visual means of questioning society and its focus on interaction in nature and adolescence and adulthood. The videos in the body of artwork seek for the viewer to question the repetitive, distracting, and anxiety-inducing notions within the artwork. From Dadaism to artists like Bruce Nauman and Mike Kelley, the art world has changed and grown from times of crisis and absurdity. This set of artworks not only fits within this area of the art world, but also seeks to expand it into a contemporary light …

Japan’S 2d Trauma Culture: Defining Crisis Cinema In Post-3/11 Japan, Matthew C. Hill

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This paper labors to expound the link between the socially mediated “trauma process,” or the creation of collective trauma through social discourse, and the proposed moniker of “crisis cinema” that has often been deployed by media scholars with no clear parameters. This paper, then, endeavors to evince the trauma process’ relevance to crises and disasters, explicitly define a paradigm by which crisis cinema can be understood, and subsequently utilized by a larger patronage, and showcase the pair’s reliance on one another. This is approached through the locus of the March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and a selection of …

Developing A Serious Game To Explore Joint All Domain Command And Control, Nathaniel W. Flack

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Changes in the geopolitical landscape and increasing technological complexity have prompted the U.S. Military to coin Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) and Joint All-Domain Command and Control as terms to describe an over-arching strategy that frames the complexity of warfare across both traditional and emerging warfighting domains. Teaching new and advanced concepts associated with these terms requires both innovation as well as distinct education and training tools in order to realize the cultural change advocated by senior military leaders. BSN, a Collectible Card Game, was developed to teach concepts integral to MDO and initiate discussion on military strategy.

Introducing The Game Design Matrix: A Step-By-Step Process For Creating Serious Games, Aaron J. Pendleton

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The Game Design Matrix makes effective game design accessible to novice game designers. Serious Games are a powerful tool for educators seeking to boost the level of student engagement and application in academic environments, but the can be difficult to incorporate into existing courses due to availability and the cost of quality game design. The Game Design Matrix was used by two educators, novice game designers, to create a serious game. The games were assessed in an academic setting and observed to be effective in engagement, interaction, and achieving higher levels of learning.

Identiteti Vizual I Kompanisë Vijator, Arlind Berisha

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Turning And Turning, Nicola Stephanie

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This paper explores Nicola Stephanie’s works in painted and shaped canvas, which investigate sensation and visual awareness of motion. Inspired partly by clothing forms, her vocabulary of color, shape and surface articulates a sense of the body and its boundaries. These spatial drawings evoke perceptions of gravity, rotation and orientation.

Hey Boo, I’Ve Been Lonely. What’S Good With You?, Khari Johnson-Ricks

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I explore the interlacing macro and micro implications of capitalism on interpersonal relationships. In an attempt to reconcile that problem I use storytelling, painting, and performance to imagine radical futures when love safety and abundance are easier to access.

Will Wonders Never Cease: Jess’S Translations, 1959-1976, Lily Goldberg

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This thesis examines Jess’s series of Translations paintings (1959-1976). It argues that, in subject matter, painterly technique, and conceptual approach, the works are shrewdly self-referential and grapple with many of the primary concerns of postwar American art, questions of appropriation, authorship, figuration versus abstraction, and selfhood and identity.

Not Much ∆, Patrick C. Mohundro

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In the paper, Patrick Carlin Mohundro processes his relationship to the loss of his father, painting, and mythologies filtered through his mother and female-identifying conceptualist, artists, and theorists.

Feminism And The Staged Uncanny, Jessica C. Mensch

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In my Thesis, I work towards a new definition of the uncanny and show the transformation of its sense in the modern period. I will then show how this transformed sense appears in the media of mechanical reproduction—stage theatrics, photography and film—and, then, specifically in my art practice.

Who's Mess?, Jordan Stohl

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Sculpture, Video and Painting have become tools for mediating a hyperactive society fetishizing sensory overload.

An Open Bag, Matilde Benmayor

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What do we take with us? How much space should we leave in the bag for what we might find? This paper is a journey from under the rug and onto the pavement. Sowing spiderweb maps I try to make a new city my own.

The Potency Of Emptiness, Kennedy L. Bailey

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I investigate language and neurology by integrating intangible personal experiences with painted manifestations of rupture within structures. I utilize a hyperbolic translation of white and black to investigate the dismantling of a structure as an explicit quotation of space, matter, existence, and mind.

Slender Fraction, Junghee Judy Koo

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Through painting I seek to claim the gutter-line experience of non-location, articulating feelings that have migrated and keep on migrating. This paper describes my own looking for the presence of something that titillates and invites curious attention but always remains partially obscure.

Institucioni I Arteve Kontemporane, Leonita Trolli

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Ky studim ka për qëllim fitimin e njohurive të reja rreth temës së përzgjedhur, si shkak që dizajnimi i hapësirës të jetë në bazë të normave që secili objekt kërkon. Njohja e historikut te muzeve, mënyra se si kanë evoluar muzetë nga ato private në institucione moderne, na jep mundësinë që të përjetojmë sadopak atë kohë dhe pse vetëm në mendjet tona. Sot, shumë muze janë ndër vendet më të vizituara në botë. Në mënyrë që të kuptojmë se si ndodhi ky fenomen i rëndësishëm kulturor, është e rëndësishme të kuptojmë origjinën e tij, të hulumtojmë evolucionin e tij dhe …

Exploring The Creation Of Immersive And Responsive Spaces For Interrelationship Through The Concept Of Playfulness, Yonghun Jung

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The COVID-19 pandemic that began in early 2020 is causing serious damage to many countries. As of May, the number of confirmed patients worldwide is at 3.35 million and the death toll stands at 239,000 people. As a way to prevent the pandemic, most countries encourage people to keep social or physical distance and self-quarantine. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they recommend that people stay at least six feet away from each other and the South Korean government also recommend keeping their distance from each other at least two meters.

Because of the current situation, …

I Hope My Black Skin Don't Dirt This White Tuxedo, Luis A. Vasquez La Roche

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I Hope My Black Skin Don't Dirt This White Tuxedo is a series of works--sculpture, installations, and performances--that explore themes of shame, failure, commodity, ephemerality, ritual, resilience, erasure, race, and death. The research and interest in these themes stem from a page of the Trinidad and Tobago Slave Registry. I use the research that surrounds this document to highlight different moments in history, in my personal life, and to imagine near futures.