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James V Birnmann: The Potential Of Critical Design For Examining Legal Issues, Phoebe Walton

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The current approach of legal design is solution-driven, with design considered a series of methodological steps used to improve existing legal systems. Such an approach fails to address systemic problems within these systems, and can instead exacerbate such issues. So far, there has been insufficient examination into the kinds of design used in conjunction with legal problems. This paper considers the potential of critical design to challenge more fundamental issues than those currently addressed with legal design. Through the project ‘James v Birnmann’, the paper illustrates how critical design can widen the discussion around legal issues, challenging the public’s perception …

Confronting Contemporary Mythmaking: On Artists’ Engagements With Popular Culture, Jonathan Case

MFA in Visual Arts Theses

This paper begins by outlining an understanding of how the culture industry operates in American culture and explores ways to counter the transmission of modern mythmaking through art. As described in Roland Bathes’s Mythologies, mythmaking in the contemporary context serves to sever current systems of power and coercion from the historic processes of their creation; to naturalize the current neoliberal order and make it seem like the only way things could ever be. This sort of mythmaking is transmitted through popular culture, and many artists have responded to it through their practices. Herein I describe several different artists’ approaches, including …

Cosmic Desert Art, Mike Graham De La Rosa

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

The Cosmic Desert are the designs inspired by chile hallucinations, desert creatures, and the long weird neon nights in the Borderworld. Made with love on the banks of the Rio Grande.

My family is originally from Northern Mexico but I grew up in Northern New Mexico down river of both where Al Hurricane and Nuclear Annihilation were originally created. Amongst chollas, rattle snakes, and river willow, the imagining of New Mexico permeates the landscapes. The Cosmic Desert is inhabited lowriders, taco trucks, neon adobe bars, cholas, native peoples, immigrants, punk rockers and cowboys. Just beyond the darkness, our imagination takes …

Binge [Fantasy Reality], Elena Foraker

Masters Theses

[My appreciation for mainstream pop culture is genuine, but I am not a passive consumer.]

[Drawing from embodied experience and contemporary feminist theory, I design as a participant, cultural surveyor, and critic.]

[From these vantage points, I binge-watch to discern the tropes of media such as reality TV romance and dead girl shows.]

[My data bingeing leads to a process of archiving, de/recoding, and making visible the algorithm structuring pop culture.]

[“Fantasy” is derived from the Greek phantazein, meaning “to make visible.”]

[In this thesis, I demonstrate that the reality-fantasy relationship is not an either/or.]

[Reality TV challenges this notion …

Gender, Aesthetics, And Sexuality In Play: Uneasy Lessons From Girls' Dolls, Action Figures, And Television Programs, Courtney Lee Weida

Courtney Lee Weida

How does children's play with dolls and action figures engender exploration of gendered identities: from aesthetics and appearances, to social standards, and various rituals and performances? This paper examines recent research in art education and gender studies concerning dolls and figural toys marketed to girls. As an artist and teacher educator, I will draw upon my teaching experiences and examine artifacts of pedagogy from popular material culture. I will address issues of consumption while taking into consideration taboos of gender and sexuality within public and private play. While children's toys as symbolic bodies may pose narrowly gendered and heteronormative models …

Glory B 2 God, Debra Elaine Johnson

Art and Design Theses

The purpose of this thesis paper is to investigate womanist theology and method, along with restoration practices involving spirituality and healing within the context of the visual arts. The thesis exhibition will attempt to create new visual possibilities that inform womanist theological scholarship in terms of promoting contemporary female religious imagery within a metaphorical language. While womanist theology is steeped in interdisciplinary practices, it has yet to consider seriously the studio arts as a means to explore and develop the womanist language. This study will investigate how essential and natural the visual arts assist our understanding of spirituality, especially through …

Duchampian Authenticity And The Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The goal of this work is to define the term Duchampian authenticity. I focus primarily on the artist Marcel Duchamp's works and philosophies in relation not only to traditional philosophies regarding authenticity but also in relation to his effect on authenticity's metamorphosis in popular culture and the mass market. I propose that the monumental paradigm shifts produced by Duchamp's conceptual and aesthetic experiments within the realm of visual art spread into our cultural bedrock, ultimately defining the consumer's ability to attain authenticity and identity through inauthentic and ephemeral commodities. Marcel Duchamp challenged traditional notions of the authentic experience and translated …

The Grass Is Greener, Brad Freeman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

sewn signatures with paper cover; front cover; page spreads. edition size unknown

Future Books: Industry, Government, Science, Arts, Vol. I Overture, Marjory B. Milne, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

volumes illustrations (some color) portraits 30 cm. Editor: Marjorie B. Milne. Produced by Adprint. Cover illustration and design by G.A. Adams. Printed in photogravure by Harrison & Sons Ltd. London. Cover, binding and offset printing by Jerrold & Sons Ltd. Norwich. Advertisements in letterpress by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Ipswich; Alabaster Passmore & Sons Ltd. Maidstone; Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd. Nottingham. The photogravure and offset parts have been printed on Mellotex Paper made by Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd. Markinch Scotland. Information graphics. Casebinding. Library has Volume I. Overture & volume IV. Transformation.

Future Books: Industry, Government, Science, Arts, Vol. Iv Transformation, Marjory B. Milne, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

volumes illustrations (some color) portraits 30 cm. Editor: Marjorie B. Milne. Produced by Adprint. Cover illustration and design by G.A. Adams. Printed in photogravure by Harrison & Sons Ltd. London. Cover, binding and offset printing by Jerrold & Sons Ltd. Norwich. Advertisements in letterpress by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Ipswich; Alabaster Passmore & Sons Ltd. Maidstone; Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd. Nottingham. The photogravure and offset parts have been printed on Mellotex Paper made by Tullis Russell & Co. Ltd. Markinch Scotland. Information graphics. Casebinding. Library has Volume I. Overture & volume IV. Transformation.