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The History of the World: Phase 2b
(2007-05)
History is an artificial construction that reflects actual events but can never fully convey
its multiplicity and complexity. The translation of historical texts into pictorial form leaves
gaps where the visual details ...
Articulating Things Into Existence
(2009-08)
Through the act of drawing, the researcher explores the process of making sense of
making sense as well as the relationship between seeing and knowing. Pulling from
the disciplines of art, cognitive science, philosophy, ...
classifictions
(2009-04)
This is a written thesis meant to dissect, document, and to share through textual
form my physical creative thesis work: a large‐scale, interactive art installation
titled “classiFICTIONS.” which examined mythologies of ...
Beyond Mind-Body Duality: Merging Performance and Visual Art Practices
(2008-04-24)
A Master of Fine Arts thesis giving an explanation and
description of the creative work and process of performance and visual
artist Melanie Manos: physical interventions, photographic and video work,
digital collage ...
sins with all my heart: Autobiography and Performance as Activist Intervention
(2007-09-17)
sins with all my heart is a live solo autobiographical performance exploring
contemporary themes of gay identity, HIV/AIDS, spirituality, community, and social
surveillance that uses confession as a metaphoric framing ...
Speaking of Silence: Exploring Family Memory Loss
(2009-12)
This paper will offer justification for the creation of my thesis projects: Everything Is
Still: An examination of home movie moments and too soon too late. For several years my work
has dealt with families and loss ...
The Distance of Horizon
(2009-08)
“Open Space” is a phrase that describes both an idea and a particular juxtaposition
of earth and sky, a state of mind and a state of being. This work addresses several
questions about this idea. How is open space ...
Extravagant Currents
(2007-05)
In this thesis, Brent Fogt explores the experiences and ideas embodied in his drawings.
Fogt draws extravagant forms that, from a distance, resemble continents, animals or
microscopic organisms. Within these forms are ...
Breathing Space
(2006-05)
This thesis will examine the balance between my studio and community practices in
creating safe and nurturing spaces. I will describe the process by which I design and facilitate
collaborative projects with community ...
ARANDO EL VIENTO (PLOWING THE WIND): finding my other
(2008-04-27)
Taking the term “the other” from Michelle de Certeau and others, this thesis explores
artist Marta Cruz Sojo’s experiences of "otherness" and is based on her ethnography research in
Mexico. Notions of "the other" motivated ...