MFA15 (MFA 2015)

Catalogue of a culminating student exhibition held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 1 - August 2, 2015 . Introduction / Heather Corcoran and Patricia Olynyk -- Diana Casanova / Emily J. Hanson -- Andrea M. Coates : in the operating theater / Stephanie Dering -- Margaux Crump -- Brandon Daniels -- Addoley Dzegede : do you prefer answers or truth? / Aaron Coleman -- Vita Eruhimovitz -- Carling Hale -- Amanda Helman -- Mike Helms / Ming Ying Hong -- Ming Ying Hong / Emily J. Hanson -- Sea A Joung / Ervin Malakaj -- Stephanie Kang / Jeremy Shipley -- Dayna Jean Kriz / Andrew Johnson -- Thomas Moore : you should move to the city / Nathaniel Rosenthalis -- Jacob Muldowney -- Laurel Panella / Garrett Clough -- Caitlin Penny -- On the bridge, between Juarez and El Paso / Eric Lyle Schultz -- Jeremy Shipley -- Emmeline Solomon -- Kellie Spano / Margaux Crump -- Michael Aaron Williams -- Austin R. Wolf : monumental labor / Adam Turl.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/1015/thumbnail.jp

Some of these are not images

This thesis examines the aesthetics of so-called negative feelings and sites of subjective discomfort. I am interested in the possibilities for the medium of photography to respond to bodily conditions of anxiety, depression, or traumatic stress through images, which represent or re-present, the experience of emotions and feelings. I use the camera and the photograph, in addition to text, sound, video, and interactive installation to give language to those things for which I do not have words. Living with the camera and working in my domestic space allows me to confront the pain of memory. By working within the traditions of large format photography, I am required to sit with a space for an extended period of time. I reference the material, color, and light of pre-trauma nostalgia as they imbue my post-trauma experience. I sew my camera to the wall, and utilize bokeh and shallow depth of field to emulate experiences like crying or non-verbal states of being. I am interested in conversations about mental health as they occur within academic institutions as well as on social media. I believe that memoir(s) of contemporary mental health play a critical role in understanding our collective cultural body. Theory from disciplines outside of the arts – Anthropology, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Trauma Studies – allow me to think about the medical body, the abused body, the body that has endured childhood sexual abuse, rape, and other forms of bodily trauma. I am obligated to think about the credibility of memory, as scientific studies on the physiology of the traumatized brain do not support the reality of the fragmented experience. My practice focuses on developing safe spaces to share visceral experiences and foster consent with the viewer as they look at, listen to, and read the history of my body

Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials and their Applications

Research on hybrid inorganic-organic materials has experienced an explosive growth since the 1980s, with the expansion of soft inorganic chemistry based processes. Indeed, mild synthetic conditions, low processing temperatures provided by \"chimie douce\" and the versatility of the colloidal state allow for the mixing of the organic and inorganic components at the nanometer scale in virtually any ratio to produce the so called hybrid materials. Today a high degree of control over both composition and nanostructure of these hybrids can be achieved allowing tunable structure-property relationships. This, in turn, makes it possible to tailor and fine-tune many properties (mechanical, optical, electronic, thermal, chemical.) in very broad ranges, and to design specific multifunctional systems for applications. In particular, the field of \"Hybrid-Optics\" has been very productive not only scientifically but also in terms of applications. Indeed, numerous optical devices based on hybrids are already in, or very close, to the market. This review describes most of the recent advances performed in this field. Emphasis will be given to luminescent, photochromic, NLO and plasmonic properties. As an outlook we show that the controlled coupling between plasmonics and luminescence is opening a land of opportunities in the field of \"Hybrid-Optics\"