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Item Always-Already Absent Present: On Trauma and Materiality(2022-01-01) Rezaei, Alieh; O'Dell, Kathy K. O. D; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsIn Always-Already Absent Present: On Trauma and Materiality, I explore linguistic experience and its effects through my art practice working with organic materials. My story started with a painful car accident. Later, aspects of that trauma were repeated when I realized that being outside my mother tongue, the same traumatic accident was occurring � this time, leaving its mark on my tongue. This theses provides perspective on the concept of death, expanding the notion to the fundamental connection of human beings with nature and the intermediation of language. Living in a language other than my mother tongue, with its constant mandate of translation, has forced me to navigate the following issue: Humans do not have direct access to nature. Rather, this connection is murdered by language. In my artistic practice, I examine this barrier through the formation of waste, the abject, and the language of excrement.Item Play It As It Lays(2016-01-01) Stitt, William Edward; O'Dell, Kathy; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsIn the multi-channel looping video installation Play It As It Lays, I project the sights and sounds of a series of complete circuits around the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) at night, in a variety of special configurations. Inspired by a nocturnal experience of pleasurable disorientation on the Los Angeles freeway, the work draws its character from experiments in digital cinema, cyberpunk literature, postmodern and psychoanalytic theories of spatial practice, and the aesthetics of Baltimore'sbuilt environment ? at once a unique place and a generic piece of contemporary American highway. Guided by the thinking of Marshall McLuhan, Fredric Jameson, Michel Foucault, Margaret Morse, Victor Burgin, Mary Anne Doane, Laura Mulvey, and others, Play It As It Lays presents a series of trips through a familiar space made strange, a contemporary hyperspace built of artificial light and sound, contributing to an ongoing aesthetic project of cognitively mapping the self and the lived environment in motion, as they reciprocally affect and recreate one another in a mutually interdependent relationship.Item Transgender Euphoria: Puerto Rico's Queer Exaltation(2022-01-01) Reynolds, Foster Luis; Sharp, Sarah G; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsTransgender Euphoria: Puerto Rico's Queer Exaltation is a two-part installation that depicts the spiritual connection between the island of Puerto Rico and its Transgender inhabitants through the visualization of a multi-generational queer narrative. By abstracting Caribbean seascapes, parts of the Flamboyán tree, chest scars left behind by gender-affirming surgery and coquí frogs through an array of mediums, the ecology of Puerto Rico and the Trans body overlap and create a multi-sensory place wherein visitors may witness the euphoria of Transgender Puerto Ricans.Item WISPOBISH: FOREST OF GHOSTS, TOWER OF VOICES(2018-01-01) Aslanbeik, Parastoo; Durant, Mark Alice; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsWispobish is a powerful tree in Persian mythology. The tree contains the nest of the Simurgh, a mythical phoenix-like bird, representing benevolence. In Persian, the word Wispobish means ‘the cure of every disease.' I am employing the symbol of the Wispobish in response to the attempts to ban Iranians and other Muslims, from the United States, regarding to the recent Executive order 13769 Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry. I utilize the old photographic technique of wet plate collodion in combination with tree branches to create a ghostly forest. A fragile yet monumental structure constructed from white-washed cardboard boxes, is inscribed with ancient Persian poems and silhouettes of branches. In this piece, I hope to evoke the voices of those who have been demonized and offer healing through collective strength.