cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Discount Meat
Creators: name: Ford, Larkin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: In the narrative painting series Discount Meat, I employ grotesque realism to emphasize the rupture of corporeal and social boundaries, reframing the body as a site of discontinuity whose physical and perceptual structures are in constant flux. Through this approach, I synthesize fragments of lived and observed experience into invented narratives with an emphasis on embodiment. By emphasizing the apertures connecting the body’s interior with the outside world, I seek to problematize the image of a discrete self, suggesting instability as a central element of physical identity. Across this web of disjointed narratives, I strive to portray the emotional range and complexity of human experience in terms of vivid physicality, depicting tedium and pain while allowing space in the work for levity and imagination.
Haunt and Hold
Creators: name: Laxalt, Michelle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: In my experiences with caregiving, I was confronted with the vulnerable physicality of infant and elderly bodies. In Haunt and Hold, I draw on two memories in which I observed the physical weakening of my grandparents’ bodies. Intensely visceral and existentially overwhelming, these moments compelled me to reevaluate my material existence as well as a number of family traditions that have complicated my spiritual assumptions.
Using the “Catholic Imagination,” the Medieval memory palace, the uncanny, and the abject as theoretical and conceptual frameworks, I make sense of these experiences and narratives. I create sculptural works that serve as reminders of the body, reflect on the sensations I experienced while caregiving, and re-contextualize personal family traditions involving the body. While the work is deeply rooted in my subjective experience, I intend to create uncanny encounters for viewers by presenting them with materials and scenarios that are visceral, unusual, and evocatively familiar.
Visual Art Curriculum Framework For Small Group High School Instruction: An Art Teacher's Reflections
Creators: name: Colangelo, Penny
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: For this thesis, I developed a curriculum for high school art students using centers for small group instruction that helped them develop skills and knowledge in creating art. The type of small group instruction that I implemented is centered based and includes a teacher facilitated component, an interactive activity, and a project done in a small group at their desks. The groups were broken down in levels of ability, skill, and the extra time needed for students to complete their work. By developing this type of curriculum for the Visual Art 1 course, the goal of small group instruction in the art classroom is to support student understanding of the artistic process through successful experiences.
At the End of the Spectrum Next to Orange and Opposite Violet
Creators: name: Sharp, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Photography is an unstable medium, the repercussions of technological advancement are constantly redefining its capabilities. As an artist working in this medium, I have often found myself wrapped up in existential reflection over my work’s place within the discipline. With At the End of the Spectrum Next to Orange and Opposite Violet, I have narrowed my interests to focus on the phenomenon of light and the manipulation of color. I am creating work committed to the conceptual foundation that light constitutes the experience of a color. I have been working monochromatically to create images and videos in order to explore this idea of color as an experience. Throughout this document my research has opened a new way of thinking about the interactions of light, color, and the viewer.
Asunder
Creators: name: Ballard, Rachel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Traumatic triggers come in many forms: the smell of a rose, the taste of a warm pie, the sound of music, the gaze of a loved one, and the touch of soft soil. What appears ordinary to one may repel another, but the tension between these two opposing reactions is what entices me as an artist. Every trigger is tied to a specific memory which causes me, as a survivor, to question my reality and what I believe to be true. Is this love or is this abuse? What happens when I succumb to the memory that haunts me? My work addresses themes of domesticity, trauma, and sentimentality through the creation of sculpture and video works. Asunder is a minefield of such works that are my response to personal trauma while offering a space for outside connection.
I Ran Into Myself
Creators: name: Masoudi, Elham
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Revolutions, demonstrations, and, elections have a wide range of political and social impacts on societies. In many instances, the repercussions of these movements cause significant and irrevocable transformations that affect the daily lives of those living within the community. As a native Iranian female artist, my works of art speak specifically to the women who, like me, have been affected by these radical changes. As such, I use my personal experience of the post-revolution and election era to create poignant and progressive art that reflects the sentiments of many modern, Iranian women.
Wheeler: A Three-Wheeled Input Device for Usable, Efficient, and Versatile Non-Visual Interaction
Creators: name: Islam, Md Touhidul
name: Sojib, Noushad
name: Kabir, Imran
name: Amit, Ashiqur Rahman
name: Amin, Mohammad Ruhul
name: Billah, Syed Masum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blind users rely on keyboards and assistive technologies like screen readers to interact with user interface (UI) elements. In modern applications with complex UI hierarchies, navigating to different UI elements poses a significant accessibility challenge. Users must listen to screen reader audio descriptions and press relevant keyboard keys one at a time. This paper introduces Wheeler, a novel three-wheeled, mouse-shaped stationary input device, to address this issue. Informed by participatory sessions, Wheeler enables blind users to navigate up to three hierarchical levels in an app independently using three wheels instead of navigating just one level at a time using a keyboard. The three wheels also offer versatility, allowing users to repurpose them for other tasks, such as 2D cursor manipulation. A study with 12 blind users indicates a significant reduction (40%) in navigation time compared to using a keyboard. Further, a diary study with our blind co-author highlights Wheeler's additional benefits, such as accessing UI elements with partial metadata and facilitating mixed-ability collaboration.
description: Paper accepted at UIST'24 (Oct 13-16, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
4sh: Coping via Crayons, Canvas, and Mixed-Media Artmaking
Creators: name: Forsh, Whitney
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: This arts-based thesis is a personal account of making sense of loss, embracing emotion, and the cathartic qualities of mixed-media art relying greatly on family photographs. The findings from this will inform my teaching approach and assist budding artists (my pupils) in creating connections by breaking down walls to promote growth of their artistic voice.
DTES information hub survey : Mapping the continuum of income-generating opportunities in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Creators: name: Pilarinos, Andreas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers Association (Urban Core) initiated the DTES Information Hub Survey project in order to understand and map the income generation continuum and to inform future strategic planning and advocacy decisions. This research study was undertaken in partnership with the UBC Learning Exchange, and the Local Economic Development Lab (LEDlab), an initiative of Ecotrust Canada and RADIUS SFU. Twenty-seven DTES non-profit organizations and social enterprises were interviewed on their provision of income-generating opportunities. Results are categorized into the types of opportunities provided, recruitment and hiring practices, the benefits to DTES community members, challenges and barriers to income generation in the community, and local procurement practices. Based on these results, this research mapped an income-generation continuum that outlines the trajectory of community members from meeting basic needs to being engaged in the labour force. There are many successes in Vancouver’s DTES of positive community member labour force engagement through the provision of low-threshold income-generating opportunities. Low-threshold income-generating opportunities entail integrating flexibilities into the workplace that minimize the barriers to employment faced by DTES community members. Successful interventions include gradual entry into positions, on-job supports, flexible leave policies, and flexible work hours. Through the provision of low-threshold opportunities, participants reported instances of transition off income assistance and disability benefits, increased stability in housing and other aspects of life, and transition into high-threshold income generating opportunities. Barriers to engaging DTES community members in the labour force include: shortfalls in work readiness supports; government employment policies and funding requirements; lack of collaboration between community organizations, and government; and stigma. Smooth transition through the income-generation continuum requires the provision of holistic supports and services through government and organizational policy innovation to ensure that life necessities are met and that incentives for gradual labour force re-entry exist. As a neutral convener of community groups and organizations, Urban Core is in a position to facilitate dialogue and collective action for the improvement of access to income-generating opportunities and increased engagement in the labour force. Improvements to the well-being of community members and the local economy will only be achieved through community-centred policy innovation that invests in all aspects of the continuum. Through increased collaboration and the reduction of stigma, Urban Core and its community partners can contribute to the development of an inclusive local economy.
Home: A Process Based Visual Exploration Of The Sentiment Of Attachment
Creators: name: Chandler, Demi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: This thesis is a studio-based inquiry in which I explored the theme of home by developing a process research through art creation. I created a series of five paintings using water-based media and water collected from each place that I associate with the sentiments of home. Through research of artists, development of a process, and reflection on the process and the artworks, I not only gained deeper insight into my personal sentiments of home, but also drew implications for my teaching.
A thing among things
Creators: name: Couch, Kelli
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: A thing among things is an endless pursuit to expand the definition of home and find resolve during life’s circumstances. I constantly search for meaning within myself, my family, and our surroundings because one of my greatest fears is to live a purposeless life. Initially, I was allured by the false sense of control that photography provides as I guided individuals, directed scenes, and selected the framing. However, I realize that the medium has the potential to reveal accidental truths within the fantasies I create. The photographs are constructed and spontaneous. The stage is predetermined but any narrative can unfold. I’m obsessed with unplanned moments that allow me to see through the guilt and condemnation and feel at peace with who I am and never fully knowing what I’ll be.
#Moment: Creating Moments of Truth Through Experiential Interior Design
Creators: name: Refsnes, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Interior Design is a multi-billion dollar industry that employs a variety of sensorial elements to shape perception and create positive Moments of Truth. Part science and part art, design practices must adapt as market demands shift. The influence of today’s digital market exposes gaps whereby sensorial elements of space are overlooked, resulting in skewed Moments of Truth. This paper examines the aesthetic experience as part of a proposed business design equation wherein each sense and design element influences the holistic spatial experience. A presentation of research will follow, wherein application of the equation demonstrates a framework for how to develop interior space holistically to communicate the desired Moment of Truth. This examination of aesthetic perception and experiential actuality advances the science behind design, and empowers industry players to understand how to design and communicate more effectively to better satisfy aesthetic demands while still meeting the needs of the human condition.
Noble Taste, Noble Style: Exploring the Concept of Vivre Noblement in the Hours of Engelbert of Nassau
Creators: name: Crouch, Ceallsach
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The Master of Mary of Burgundy illuminated the Hours of Engelbert of Nassau specifically to fulfill the needs of the nobility of the Burgundian Court. By analyzing three different pages, I reveal that the Master created an “alternative reality” through the use of trompe l’oeil and other modes of highly illusionistic representation. In order to appeal to the concept of vivre noblement, or “living nobly,” the Master introduces the page as an accessible mental environment, allowing the viewer to shift between layers of reality with ease. The visual and mental intricacy actively immerses the viewer and promotes ideas of positional and spiritual authority, connecting them to the ideas of a courtly splendor.
The Elles Series: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Unusual Approach to Prostitution
Creators: name: Dobbins, Anna
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: This essay will examine the new attitude with which nineteenth-century artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec approached the subject of prostitution. Toulouse-Lautrec’s focus on the subject culminated with his production of the Elles series in which he offers a look into how the prostitutes lived within the brothel, the mundane aspects of everyday life. This series shows how these women were confined by their surroundings and is a divergence from the typical approach to depicting the maison close and the prostitute depicted by artists like Edgar Degas. By looking at his previous works on the subject and works by Degas one begins to see how Toulouse-Lautrec offers a new viewpoint.
A Survey of No Place
Creators: name: Carley, Amelia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: A Survey of No Place is a group of paintings that construct a visual representation of an artificial place – a study of an invented land. A fabricated maquette made of synthetic and geological materials visually references spectacular geological sites and is rendered monumental through painting. In this work, I am interested in the disparity between these rudimentary sculptural references and the final seductive imagery.
By re-examining my early memories of desolate, yet curated, landscapes, these paintings unearth a fictional natural beauty intertwined with feelings of loss and inevitable change. Similar to the way memories function, these works shift between clarity and haze, retelling and reimaging. These hyper-saturated and romanticized oil paintings employ photo blur and crisp Photoshopped edges to evoke a feeling of “unreality.” A Survey of No Place serves as an examination of indeterminate time and place through its engagement with ideas of artificiality in landscape and memory.
Demonstration of Wheeler: A Three-Wheeled Input Device for Usable, Efficient, and Versatile Non-Visual Interaction
Creators: name: Islam, Md Touhidul
name: Sojib, Noushad
name: Kabir, Imran
name: Amit, Ashiqur Rahman
name: Amin, Mohammad Ruhul
name: Billah, Syed Masum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Navigating multi-level menus with complex hierarchies remains a big challenge for blind and low-vision users, who predominantly use screen readers to interact with computers. To that end, we demonstrate Wheeler, a three-wheeled input device with two side buttons that can speed up complex multi-level hierarchy navigation in common applications. When in operation, the three wheels of Wheeler are each mapped to a different level in the application hierarchy. Each level can be independently traversed using its designated wheel, allowing users to navigate through multiple levels efficiently. Wheeler's three wheels can also be repurposed for other tasks such as 2D cursor manipulation. In this demonstration, we describe the different operation modes and usage of Wheeler.
description: Accepted at UIST'24 Adjunct (Oct 13-16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Good Girl: Sweaty Palms and the Smile
Creators: name: Lee, Nuni
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: My thesis exhibition “Good Girl: Sweaty Palms and the Smile” is a combination of paintings, small figurines, and a video piece illustrating the complicated emotions that arise from childhood memories and childlike impulses. My work revolves around a central figure, Good Girl. She is the reflection of me as an artist and manifests my attempt to hold on to my inner child, which is triggered by my desire to relieve her from dark emotions that she felt in her childhood. Good Girl is also a representation of a typical young girl who feels anxious about growing up. Noticeably infantile and feline in her characteristics and subtle in her expressions, Good Girl demands sensitive attention from her audience. My dream journal entries, anecdotes, and memories from childhood serve as important sources for creating images of Good Girl.
Another Failed Attempt
Creators: name: Putt, Aaron
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Another Failed Attempt is an exhibition of sculptures and paintings, exploring the desire for utopic plentitude through material and formal exploration. Adopting a hybrid strategy, various materials, processes and forms are combined as a means to satisfy an aspirational longing for positive transformation, both personal and societal. Architectural structures serve as symbols for the deterministic forces of history and ideas of the self which are shaped by these forces. This work functions as a site for a personal exploration of form and material, Although often failing to offer transcendence, they express my aesthetic interests and contain externalized anxieties, utopic fantasies, the promise of self-discovery and the possibility for transformative potential.
GAGA!  Interdisciplinary And Integrated Education: Geography, Art, and Global Awareness
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lieu
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Based on my experience designing and implementing a team-taught course in Art and Geography, called GAGA, at a Charter high school in Atlanta, I conducted this action research in my classroom to solicit student feedback and assess effectiveness of interdisciplinary instruction in an integrated classroom. Results support the benefits of interdisciplinary education, and helped to reveal the strength and weaknesses of each project that my partner and I have created. I intend to continue polishing this course to provide an engaging learning experience for future students. I am eager to showcase the results of my research at future conferences.
Sherbet House: Designing Iranian Culture for the United States
Creators: name: Masoudi, Atena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The relationship between Iran and the United States (both culturally and politically) is at a very low level because of decades of diplomatic (and at times military) conflicts. As a result, the American public is not familiar with Iranian culture. This paper describes a marketing campaign designed to develop cultural understanding between the two countries through the promotion of popular Iranian beverages. I chose Iranian beverages due to my observation that there is no market for them in the United States and my belief that a widespread and targeted campaign has the potential of becoming a successful product. The marketing campaign aims to raise awareness about Iran’s culture and history through identity, typography, packaging, virtual reality and app design.
Folded Mystery
Creators: name: palizgir, maryam
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The body of work in my thesis project titled Folded Mystery are the metaphors for how
we exchange knowledge, how perception widens our perspective, and how observation deepens
our understanding of the reality in which we live. I seek works of art that activate once the
viewer is involved. Folded Mystery is about challenging viewers' perception of multi-perception embodiment through 2D and 3D drawings, sculptural paintings, and installations that focus on the interaction of geometric abstract forms, colors, reflective objects and layering grid-like materials in space.
Loose Larry: A Binding of Non-Blood Story
Creators: name: Cieplowski, Tyler
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Binding of Non-Blood combines found and fabricated objects interwoven with recorded spoken word stories by a narrator I identified only as “Man 1.” The stories include themes about coming-of-age, familial dynamics, gang-related activity, and an obscenity of war all originating from the initial directive, “tell me a story of friends who became closer than family.”  This chapter focuses on a character who interacted with “Man 1” in a Motorcycle Gang in the 1970s by the name of Loose Larry. Throughout the installation, viewers are invited to eavesdrop on stories about Larry, which are presented anonymously from within the sculptures.  Left without descriptors or characteristics of the narrator, the viewer is able to detach from any presumptions they may carry with them, and bring their own meaning to the stories.  Binding of Non-Blood is intended to demonstrate how experiencing events together can unite individuals from a multitude of backgrounds and cultures.
iPWR input-deck and scenarios analyses
Creators: name: Gabrielli, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: SASPAM-SA
subject: SMR
subject: DBA
subject: BDBA
subject: SEVERE ACCIDENT
subject: SCENARIOS
subject: Nuclear fission

description: The HORIZON-EURATOM SAPSAM-SA project, coordinated by ENEA (Italy), was launched in 2022 aiming at

filling this gap and at transferring the knowledge and know-how of large LWR to integral PWRs (iPWRs) in

view of the European licensing needs with respect to Severe Accident (SA) and Emergency Planning Zone

(EPZ). One of the goals of the project is the evaluation of the capabilities of state-of-art European and non-

European integral codes to properly predict the key phenomena occurring in postulated SA scenarios in two

generic (but representative) iPWRs. Note that such generic reactor concepts include the main iPWR design

features considered in the most promising designs in the European market.

Having this in mind, a large working activity has been performed in the frame of the WP2 (SCENARIO) by the

SASPAM-SA partners aiming at the assessment of the datasets of the most used integral codes in Europe

(ASTEC, MELCOR, AC2, EDF-MAAP, and MAAP) for the generic iPWRs considered in the project, the

postulation of Design Basis Accident (DBA) and SA scenarios for such systems, and the corresponding

calculation campaign. Furthermore, the ANSYS CFX and the containmentFOAM models have been assessed

and transient analyses have been performed.

The current report focusses on the description of the work activity performed in the WP2, with particular

focus on the evaluation of the capabilities of the integral codes employed by the partners to describe the

behaviour of the two selected iPWR Designs during both the postulated DBA and SA scenarios. The ASTEC,

MELCOR, AC2, EDF-MAAP, and MAAP results of the key figure-of-merits are compared and a quite extensive

survey of the capabilities of the code to simulate the most relevant phenomena, e.g., thermal-hydraulics,

core degradation, activation of the passive systems, characterizing generic iPWRs designs.
Dwelling on Things
Creators: name: Tepper, Kirstie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Dwelling on Things is an exhibition of fabricated and found material that embraces the world inside my head, my domestic life, and the world at large. As the title implies, I have been dwelling on things in every sense, which manifests as a non-linear and personal understanding of time and place and is presented within the context of spaces in the home. Derived from a number of contributing factors, though I am most conscious of the effects of trauma, grief, and the deep sadness associated with postpartum depression, the autobiographical content is an amalgamation of these coinciding experiences. The sum total of these life events has not created this work, but rather, it reflects being pulled in and out of different realities and placed into others simultaneously. I have come to think of these moments as existing in multiple geographic locations, emotional states, and different points in time at once.
Antediluvian
Creators: name: Parady, Judy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: As we move into a time of accelerated change there is a need to center ourselves and recognize our innate strengths. Through the metaphor of the Antediluvian we are reminded that humans have survived global upheaval many times. This body of work, inspired by flood mythologies, encourages those who seek guidance to look anew.
The primary motifs are salt and boats. The boats are made of paper and reed; you cannot sail them, they are a device with which to visualize transcension. Salt water, (brine), represents the oceans and our dependence on both water and salt for life. It also reminds us that too much of either leads to destruction and death. Balance and sound navigation are required. This installation of encaustic paintings, sculptural objects and talismans represent encoded data informed by the non-verbal language of art intended to stimulate preparation, mentally and spiritually, for the challenges coming our way.
Yours Truly MF
Creators: name: florence, michelle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Yours Truly MF is both the title of this exhibition and the identity through which I create and share my work. At its root is a query of the role and function of art and artist. This work is the fruition of my journey to come to terms with being a contemporary artist working in ceramics by examining the visual vocabulary of my art as product and the aesthetic of affluence in which it may exist. By creating context for my work; art objects, digital media and technology function as equalizers, subverting contemporary ideals of wealth and exclusivity. Fine art is a luxury. In luxury is quality, an exemplifier of our greatest potential, yet its commodification and exclusiveness can be base and at times even vulgar. My goal with Yours Truly MF is to embrace those contradictions and celebrates what it is to be crude but classy.
Identifying Crucial Objects in Blind and Low-Vision Individuals' Navigation
Creators: name: Islam, Md Touhidul
name: Kabir, Imran
name: Pearce, Elena Ariel
name: Reza, Md Alimoor
name: Billah, Syed Masum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a curated list of 90 objects essential for the navigation of blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals, encompassing road, sidewalk, and indoor environments. We develop the initial list by analyzing 21 publicly available videos featuring BLV individuals navigating various settings. Then, we refine the list through feedback from a focus group study involving blind, low-vision, and sighted companions of BLV individuals. A subsequent analysis reveals that most contemporary datasets used to train recent computer vision models contain only a small subset of the objects in our proposed list. Furthermore, we provide detailed object labeling for these 90 objects across 31 video segments derived from the original 21 videos. Finally, we make the object list, the 21 videos, and object labeling in the 31 video segments publicly available. This paper aims to fill the existing gap and foster the development of more inclusive and effective navigation aids for the BLV community.
description: Paper accepted at ASSETS'24 (Oct 27-30, 2024, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2407.16777
DONT FEEL TOUCH
Creators: name: Jagodinsky, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: DONT FEEL TOUCH is an art exhibition and thesis that combines sculpture and performance within a single space. The show’s installation consists of three-dimensional art objects, painted panels, and soft sculptures. Each piece emerges from a series of experiential traumas that span from childhood to adulthood. Embodying the behavioral and emotional distress that suspends my journey to autonomy, the forms work together to act as a sculptural foundation for a live performance. The goal of my thesis work is to understand the psychosocial impact of early childhood trauma through instinctual making and performance.
Using the Visual Arts to Support the Development of Young Refugee Children: A Puppet-Making Workshop
Creators: name: El Souki, Ghenwa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The growth of developing young children is highly determined by the kinds of experiences they encounter in their social and cultural environment early on in their lives, and arts exposure in early childhood plays a crucial role in this process. Many children do not have access to such learning experiences – particularly in the case of young refugees who would spend the first few years of life in environments they are not familiar with. The visual arts can act as a tool that brings refugee children closer to meaningful and nurturing experiences that can facilitate their integration within the new host community. This thesis examined the role of the visual arts in the development of young refugee children, and various resources were explored to develop a process-based puppetry workshop designed to be implemented with preschool-aged refugees, aimed at supporting their growth with specific regards to the cognitive, communication, and social-emotional domains.
The Plastic Ocean: An Art Educator’s Interpretation
Creators: name: Johnson, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this study was to create a series of artwork in response how plastic is affecting marine life and indicate implications for classroom use. I focused primarily on the plastic pollution in and around the North Pacific Gyre and three of the marine animals affected. I chose animals that spend time off the coast of California and painted images of the Pacific leatherback sea turtle, the Laysan albatross, and the California sea lion. Through this project I have learned a lot about myself, both as a consumer and as an artist educator. Since the beginning of this research I have changed our household ways of viewing and using single-use plastics. This study has also pushed me artistically to create works to raise awareness and inspire change. I feel confident that I will be able to use this knowledge to motivate students to do the same.
Deep Reminding
Creators: name: Ghasemi, Amin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Deep Reminding is an immersive multi-sensory experience comprised of sound, light and digital painting. My interest in the existential and mystical qualities of sound and light, as well as their power to engage, alter, and expand the consciousness of the audience, forms the basis of this body of work. These multi-sensory experiences open us to feelings and information that are not accessible through language and other media; they create an internal dialogue between the mysterious nature of the exhibition space and our perception of being. Conscious feelings and thoughts are suspended, hypnotized through listening and seeing.
Dignity
Creators: name: Powell, Carla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Dignity is a body of work examining and celebrating the efforts of women who are in challenging circumstances to compel a better life for themselves, their families, and their communities. Using the most basic of tools, most notably the hand, women can individually change their outcome, as well as that of their families and their communities. The artwork explores these ideas and focuses on the visual processes and products that women’s hands perform and create around the world.
In Situ
Creators: name: Jahangir, mohammadjavad
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In Situ is a multidisciplinary photo-based project that visually represents the truth of human identity in social life. I employed both psychoanalytic theories about human cognitive ego/identity and my personal experiences as references to re-examine how individuals consider their identities among others.
In this project, I intend on freezing the moment to monumentalizing between space, time and human postures, as a means of self-exploring Between artist, subjects, and viewers, to make a new dialogue in self-discourse through the lens of others, both personal and social. As an examination dichotomy floating discourse self-discourse, In Situ will investigate the meaning of truth through the moment of the false.
Class Clown
Creators: name: Adamson, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Class Clown is an exhibition of ceramic sculptures that uses a campy humor to remedy a distinct lack of unencumbered silliness within the traditionally serious-minded art gallery setting. “Class Clown” contains a double meaning: it refers to a student who disrupts the classroom through comical behavior, as well as “class” in the socioeconomic sense. Using an overly saccharin, kitsch aesthetic, this work sardonically investigates ideas about art that circulate in the academic setting. Examining and dissecting these systems provides an opportunity for my work to comically criticize whatever space it inhabits. In doing so, it ironically becomes part of the exclusive systems it is intended to lampoon. Combining the highly refined aesthetics and technical mastery of the medium with the absurd, my sculptures depict vignettes that highlight the role of humor as a tool for communicating about art.
A Series of Quiet Decisions
Creators: name: Artrip, Aaron
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: A Series of Quiet Decisions is a set of prints and an installation documenting my examination of sound. A center piece containing a modified television set and a set of pedestal speakers acts as a physical manifestation of my proximity between two interests: listening and viewing. The three surrounding walls contain numerous individual cyanotypes drawn with sound, providing an indexical mark to my listening sessions. Considering printmaking as a form of recording, the cyanotypes are a visual playback of sonic vibrations. A Series of Quiet Decisions serves as an examination of sound in both viewing and listening opportunities.
The Devout Griot, Emotional Keeper.
Creators: name: Gay, Shanequa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The Devout Griot, Emotional Keeper evaluates place, tradition, storytelling, and the experiences of African-American women to develop imaginative dialogues and alternative strategies for self-imaging by uprooting social proscriptions and challenging political norms. Within this installation, the paintings, performance, and monumental sculptural figures create an environment of ritual and memorial, depicting amalgamated new gods and mythical figures whose lives have been impacted by systemic inequalities, resulting in counter and
re-imagined narratives that, at times, live within the duality of physical and spiritual worlds. This work also explores the historic and contemporary social concerns of hybrid cultures through the gaze of the African-American female progenitor and multimedia exploration to analyze how composite cultures have often been rendered invisible, their identities denied.
The Whole of the Hidden Thing
Creators: name: Ojeda, Linda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The Whole of the Hidden Thing is an accumulation of found, altered, and replicated objects that harnesses the discarded and unknown histories attached to their constituent, post-consumer parts. From the perspective of the individual, other persons seem to be located across vast psychic distances. This body of work incorporates objects obtained from second-hand sources, particularly clothing, linens, furniture, and small, decorative trinkets to talk about the precarious balance between self and stranger, individual and collective, and the skin-like membranes that exist between people. By looking at objects as both manifestations of culture and carriers of invisible memory, I explore sentiment and intimacy through the material world of things and establish physical mediators for the recognition of shared culture.
Supplementary document for Tailorable Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in a Partially Suspended Aluminium Nitride Waveguide in the Visible Range - 5868041.pdf
Creators: name: li, peng
name: Yan, Jize
name: Ou, Jun-Yu
name: Mashanovich, Goran
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Additional information for transverse isotropy in section 2; technical set for match between rotation matrix and crystal coordinate system; node theory for Figure 5.
I know now...I am here
Creators: name: meza, Ana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: I know now… I am here is an exhibition about the process of immigration. As an immigrant in the US, I feel dislocated. This exhibition will display a series of sculptures inspired by my personal immigration process. The main piece of the exhibition consists of a translucent wall made of a plastic grid. A light illuminates the wall creating what I call a space in-between. As a result, I know now… I am here produces a feeling of empathy. Even though some people haven’t gone through an immigration process we all know the feeling of not belonging from one place to another.
Ambiguous Criteria
Creators: name: lindquist, travis
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Ambiguous Criteria consists of paintings, digital prints, and works on paper including abstract compositions and saturated photographs with swaths of colors and text. The content originates in personal memories: childhood recollections, humorous anecdotes, and images of intimately known places. Alongside this is topical subject matter derived from popular culture, scientific information, and conspiracy theories that have been researched and dismantled by myself.
This combination results in a tension that corresponds with the making of the work. Rather than following a linear method when creating I improvise and disrupt the composition through the addition and redaction of material gestures. The resulting works obscure content and remove context. Ambiguous Criteria is an opportunity for these disparate elements to coexist untethered from the restricted plane of reality. Through these abstractions, abstract and tangible concepts can be addressed and dismantled while accepting and embracing a refusal to explicitly define a precise meaning or position.
My hideous progeny
Creators: name: Mondragon, Nathaniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: My hideous progeny is an exhibition of objects and paintings that create a queer Gothic space. The works are autonomous, yet function conceptually as a composite, and are arranged to fully occupy the gallery. In the central pieces, I use the myth of Frankenstein as a metaphor for the act of creation and a reference point for discussing homosexual identity and relationships. Throughout my work, I explore different methods of “queering” the art object by altering its skin, surface, or substrate to investigate how identity is worn as a cosmetic exterior. Through a queer visual interpretation of the Gothic, I explore the idea of the monster as the queer Other in order to share a marginalized perspective with the viewer in hopes that he or she might re-evaluate the process of othering.
Strathcona : Raycam Retail and Business Survey
Creators: name: Fry, Pete
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: As part of the Community Economic Development work in the Downtown Eastside, the following is a partial analysis of the local serving business environment in and around Strathcona. Two separate surveys targeted local businesses and local residents with questionnaires to determine what we have, what we need, and what we can do. This project aims to articulate some of the retail and service needs of the local population and answer the questions: What are local-serving businesses? What are heritage businesses and how do they relate to placemaking? Where do people shop? What are people asking for? What’s important?
Daytime Thermal Anisotropy of Urban Neighbourhoods : Morphological Causation
Creators: name: Krayenhoff, E. S.
name: Voogt, James A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Surface temperature is a key variable in boundary-layer meteorology and is typically acquired by remote observation of emitted thermal radiation. However, the three-dimensional structure of cities complicates matters: uneven solar heating of urban facets produces an “effective anisotropy” of surface thermal emission at the neighbourhood scale. Remotely-sensed urban surface temperature varies with sensor view angle as a consequence. The authors combine a microscale urban surface temperature model with a thermal remote sensing model to predict the effective anisotropy of simplified neighbourhood configurations. The former model provides detailed surface temperature distributions for a range of “urban” forms, and the remote sensing model computes aggregate temperatures for multiple view angles. The combined model’s ability to reproduce observed anisotropy is evaluated against measurements from a neighbourhood in Vancouver, Canada. As in previous modeling studies, anisotropy is underestimated. Addition of moderate coverages of small (sub-facet scale) structure can account for much of the missing anisotropy. Subsequently, over 1900 sensitivity simulations are performed with the model combination, and the dependence of daytime effective thermal anisotropy on diurnal solar path (i.e., latitude and time of day) and blunt neighbourhood form is assessed. The range of effective anisotropy, as well as the maximum difference from nadir-observed brightness temperature, peak for moderate building-height-to-spacing ratios (H/W), and scale with canyon (between-building) area; dispersed high-rise urban forms generate maximum anisotropy. Maximum anisotropy increases with solar elevation and scales with shortwave irradiance. Moreover, it depends linearly on H/W for H/W < 1.25, with a slope that depends on maximum off-nadir sensor angle. Decreasing minimum brightness temperature is primarily responsible for this linear growth of maximum anisotropy. These results allow first order estimation of the minimum effective anisotropy magnitude of urban neighbourhoods as a function of building-height-to-spacing ratio, building plan area density, and shortwave irradiance. Finally, four “local climate zones” are simulated at two latitudes. Removal of neighbourhood street orientation regularity for these zones decreases maximum anisotropy by 3%–31%. Furthermore, thermal and radiative material properties are a weaker predictor of anisotropy than neighbourhood morphology. This study is the first systematic evaluation of effective anisotropy magnitude and causation for urban landscapes.
Data Management Plan
Creators: name: Bersano, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The present deliverable describes the procedure for data management within the SASPAM-SA project. The

data envisaged in the project are described together with their expected formats. In addition, the actions

foreseen to accomplish the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) principle are described.

The allocation of resources for data management, the security of data and ethical issues are presented.
Living Hysterically
Creators: name: Caldas, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Living Hysterically is an immersive exhibition of multi-disciplinary works that explore the ordinary lived experiences of women and highlight women’s constant relationship with labor and pain. Pain can be considered a uniquely feminine issue. In Living Hysterically, each series of work presents a picture of past, present, and future tied to three generations of women. These stories provide an entry point into the personal experiences, both positive and negative, that fill the lives of women. The work illustrates the forces working in these lives that create a spectrum of violence, from the mundane to the traumatic, and the ways women survive and thrive beyond this violence. Together these drawings, sculptures, and interdisciplinary works claims space for women’s stories too often denied in public, creating representations that are more complex and thoughtful than the usual discourse. Moving through the installation becomes an exercise in empathy moving towards understanding and change.
Abstract Forms/Explicit Intent: Modernist Monuments of Socialist Yugoslavia in Service of the State
Creators: name: Putt, Aaron
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Although the monuments of former Yugoslavia seem to eschew many of the aesthetic characteristics of traditional monumental architecture, appearing as unique examples of modernist abstraction, they were an integral part of a larger ideological strategy of Yugoslav state authorities. As such, the modernist aesthetic of the state-sponsored memorial architecture of post-World War II Yugoslavia was not incidental or the result of passive support for the modernist preferences of artists and architects. It must have been a deliberate choice by the state to communicate official narratives to both the citizens of Yugoslavia and the wider international community.
Inclusive Art Education as a Tool for Art Museum Experiences
Creators: name: Fasen, Sonja
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: This Thesis looks at art education as a tool for meaningful art museum experiences. The study follows students on field trips at the High Art Museum as a process to develop a fully inclusive art educational program. The focus of the process of inclusivity evaluates the personal, socio-cultural, and physical aspects of the learning environment within the museum. The research questions that guide the study are 1) how the inclusive strategies I have found in my art classroom can be utilized to create an inclusive art museum setting, 2) how we can approach inclusive student learning an art museum environment, and 3) how the art museum field trip experience can be designed to create an engaging and worthwhile experience for students on the autism spectrum. This study offers a model of inclusion to an artistic learning environment.