Seasons: A motion graphics depicts activities of ancient Chinese people in four seasons

Seasons is a 2D motion graphics film that aims to visually depict my interpretation of seasons changing and seasonal activities of ancient Chinese people. It is an attempt to reproduce two classical arts on modern media. I mimic and mix the visual effects of Chinese shadow puppets and Chinese ink wash strokes through digital media technologies. Neither Chinese painting nor shadow puppet emphasize on reproducing the appearance of subject. It is more regarded as a form of expressionistic art, which intends to capture the spirit of the subject and illustrate the perception of the scene. My graphics are not planned to fully copy external forms of shadow puppets or old Chinese paintings, instead, I target to show the beauty of Chinese traditional art forms as well as the beauty of Asian aesthetics and philosophy. Seasons represents my imaginary and visual adaptation of my knowledge and memories about cultures, traditions, and mysteries that related to seasons. The intent of project is to seek a different approach to integrate motion graphics with traditional art forms, and, to discuss more possibilities of transplanting classical arts into digital platform

The dream of the butterfly: experimental illusions in motion graphics

The Dream of the Butterfly: Experimental Illusions in Motion Graphics is a series of motion graphics and applications defined from visual illusions, which are based on the study of patterns and interactive multimedia. This project is not only focused on making and showing motion graphic pieces, but also providing a basis of studies and enough of the experimental process of creating them, by incorporating sections for the user to interact with. By creating a web-based interface, it provides people with a chance to experiment with the elements of basic patterns and understand visual illusions which were chosen by me for my thesis

The Butterfly Effect: Creative Sustainable Design Solutions through Systems thinking

FAIM: Intelligent Manufacturing now, Limerick, Irelan

Papelitos: The Visual Testimonios of Undocumented College Students

This study investigated the role art played in the lives of nine undocumented college students at different universities in Northern California. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to examine how undocumented college students use art as a mechanism of resistance and activation of the political self related to their immigration status. This scholarship comes at the heels of the first year in office of the 45th president of the United States, who ran on a platform, in part, of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Much of the activism around undocumented immigrant rights has used art as a mechanism for collective action, allyship, and reimagining the migrant person. This research focused on personal narrative and participant-made artwork through an original conceptual framework called Visual Testimonio, which is formed by three pillars: testimonio, art as resistance strategy, and Critical Race Theory. Less about the classically defined arts, Visual Testimonio embraces the figurative visual: creative, vulnerable work that is moved into a public sphere, stories that are shouted, acted, and sculpted so that oppressed viewpoints are considered and marginalized folks are seen. Four key ideas emerged from this project. One, for undocumented people, making and sharing self-reflective art is innately political. Art offers the maker a mechanism for taking control of the narrative regarding immigrant people—especially in a time of political fear and turmoil. Secondly, creating art can have emotional and mental health benefits for undocumented students dealing with trauma, stress, fear, and uncertainty. It can serve to channel rage. The participants showed how they have used art for self and communal care. Third, Visual Testimonio allows for the creation of sanctuary as a reflexive resistance strategy. The centering of immigrant art can create a haven through shared stories. Lastly, the art done by undocumented people should serve as valuable primary texts of a lived experience. They are historical artifacts in the making. A recent surge of creative activity around immigrant rights is in reaction to the oppressive system that threatens millions of people. If Critical Race Theory is the lens through which stories are examined and testimonio is the heart of the matter, the arts are the hands that form new, more just realities. In a time of political and social persecution, this study presents dispatches from the spiritual front lines of the immigrant rights movement

Gold-Speckled Wings: Hawthorne and the English Romantics

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Arts and Science at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of English by Judith E. Carr-Back on May 4, 1990

Exploring Taoism philosophy: A Visual interactive interpretation

Thesis URL: http://www.yangdan.info/thesis Exploring Taoism Philosophy: A Visual Interactive Interpretation is an interactive graphic design project which introduces the Taoism philosophy to college students, it\u27s also a personal graphic interpretation of Taoism. This project is a flash website that runs on any computer that has access to the Internet. My goal for this project is to explore the history, principles, and rules of Taoism philosophy, its applications in modern society and to interpret Taoism through creative interactive graphic solutions based on personal understanding. My targeted audience is college students from 18 to 25 who have interests in Taoism, philosophy, or Chinese culture; I wish that by introducing Taoism to a young western audience, they can benefit from this ancient eastern philosophy by learning Taoist theories and also try some of its relaxing practices. There are four parts: about, learn, watch, and practice . About is the reason I created the project; Learn is the introduction of Taoism philosophy; Watch introduces the principles of Taoism by motion graphics; And, in practice users can follow instructions and practice Taoist applications like meditation. I started the project by user investigation and have been doing user testing through the process, which includes the initial brainstorming and sketching, test mockups in Adobe Flash, storyboards in Adobe Illustrator, and production in Flash and After Effect. Through this project I achieved my personal goal of exploring more theories and applications of Taoism and have developed a deeper understanding of effective marketing to a Western audience. Most Taoist websites are text-heavy and lack interactivity; by creating a graphical, interactive, and user-centered site, I hope young people can really benefit from learning and practicing the Taoism philosophy in their own lives

Issue 48

EIU Comic Con, Fashion Exhibit, Study room reservation system, Bill Schultz interviewhttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/notebooth/1047/thumbnail.jp

Reflections in the Author\u27s Eye: Optics, Involution, and Artifice in the Novels and Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye, is consistently characterized as his most obscure work. Despite comparatively slim critical attention, the work marked a seminal moment in Nabokov’s literary career, as it initiated his experimentation with perceptual distortions such as mirroring, mimicry, optics, and doubling all through the frame of unreliable narration. Going beyond conventionally untrustworthy narration, Nabokov presents an authorial consciousness that manipulates the narratory point of view through incredibly detailed encryptions, requiring the imaginative participation of readers in unmasking Nabokov’s second, “real” authorial plot. Although Nabokov openly dismissed the moral foregrounding associated with the doppelgänger motif, the thesis will explore the ways in which Nabokov frequently utilizes myriads of false doubles to create an imprint of artifice, which the reader must sift through in order to grasp the authorial “texture” beneath the overt text. Utilizing The Eye as well as several of Nabokov’s short stories as introductory prototypes of Lolita and Pale Fire, the thesis will explore the development of Nabokov’s increasingly intricate and deceptive ocular and aesthetic designs, which inculcate the creative participation of an audience, thereby making the perceptive reader a real and conscious double of the author