Browsing by Subject "art"

Now showing 1 - 9 of 9
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Art, Architecture, and Community: Create Spaces to Highlight Local Talent
    (ASEE Peer, 2020-06-22) Nickolson, Darrell D.; Pruitt, Katie; Engineering Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
    The paper will focus on a two-semester service-learning project in which Architectural Technology Students are partnering with a local entity called Reclaiming Community. Reclaim is a subsidiary of a larger local organization with a mission to bring about sustainable regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment through their Art Shed initiative. Each semester will develop a separate set of shed designs, with separate assessment methods and outcomes. The over-arching goal of the project is revitalizing the neighborhoods that will house these sheds, and encourage the love of art and design in area. Sheds are designed with the intent that after a certain about of time in residence the materials will be recycled for custom designed furniture. Utilizing the evidence-based design process (EBD) students will collaborate with Reclaiming project organizers to identify goals for the destination points. Sheds are studied and designed utilizing varying roof styles and interactive design ideas. Through this process each student will design a version of the shed, creating detailed instruction manual with materials and construction methods, and do a miniature 3D study model of the shed. Community partners from the reclaim project will play an integral role in reviewing the design process of the sheds, giving critical feedback for revisions and use. This is a very important part to ensure the evidence basedesign strategies are effectively solving the design problem. Assessment methods include our institutions Start/Stop/Continue along with customized end of course survey specifically aligned with this project. The community partners will also assist in development of end of course surveys, further integrating them into the culture of the course. The Start/Stop/Continue assessment is a student-centered mid-semester assessment of the project and its process. The completed paper will include the assessment results and course/project modifications carried into the second part of the semester. The customized end of semester course survey will allow the community partner along with the faculty member to specifically target questions at the students participation in the project and the outcomes. Results will be used for phase two of the project to take place in the spring semester.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Blending science and art: An educational perspective
    (2019) Balkir, Nur; Saher, Konca; Mihci, Gurkan; Herron School of Art and Design
    Art and design education enable students to find creative and logical solutions to various design problems. The use of materials, constructive analysis, craftmanship, and originality are some key criteria in the process. Size and dimensionality, the proportion analysis, expression integrity, substantiality, and presentability can vary depending on the project and the context. As one of the methods used to provide targeted experience and learning in art and design education, interdisciplinary work presents a right ground for complex design issues. The workshop we carried out together with the Tubitak National Metrology Institution (UME) named “Art’s Metrology, Metrology’s Art” aimed to transform art, design, and science together into a product. As rational, natural, and appropriate connections can be established between art and science, students were asked to develop a method to meet the objectives and criteria of both around a certain conceptual focus. An important inclusive of the workshop was to have students observe, get informed, and engage in dialogue and ultimately increase their curiosity about a certain mechanism outside of their studies. The group dynamic in the process of creating three-dimensional and displayable works within a scheduled time was supported by a scientist from the metrology department, three art and design instructors, Konca Şaher, Nur Balkır, and Gürkan Mıhçı from Kadir Has University. The finished works were then exhibited in the Tubitak-UME in Gebze compound. This study, which blends science and art, provided students with the opportunity to experiment with a science field, and to develop their predictions about their own disciplines. The paper will present the development and the outcome of the workshop.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Can Science lead us to a Definition of Art?
    (Firenze University Press, 2013) Coe, Kathryn; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    For approximately two thousand years, human thinkers have been attempting to define a behaviour, referred to as art, that humans have been practicing for tens of thousands of years. Defining this term has proved to be so difficult that Munro (1949: 5) to claim that the arts “are too intangible and changing to be defined or classified.” In this paper a 12-property cluster theory proposed by Denis Dutton is critically evaluated not in light of how well it fits with current thinking in aesthetics, but in light of its scientific strength and its usefulness for examining art across cultures.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    How Art Can Educate the Radiologist's Eye: Duchamp's “Nude Descending a Staircase”
    (Elsevier, 2018-01) Gunderman, Richard B.; Idahosa, Aimebenomon O.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Duchamp's “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” was dubbed one of the most famous and controversial paintings of its day (1). Along with the cubist school of which it was a part, it helped to change the way artists and the public perceived art, and its influence persists down to the present day (2). Less known but no less notable is the fact that “Nude Descending” also offers important educational insights to radiologists, particularly regarding the daily work of radiologic interpretation.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Intersections: An Installation/Sculpture
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Agha, Anila Quayyum
    With a New Frontiers Grant 2012-13, I explored intersections of culture & religion, dynamics and interpretations of space, as they thread through cultures and emerge as varied expressions that redefine themselves with the passage of time. In this piece a motif that represents certitude is explored to reveal its fluidity in Islamic sacred spaces and is meant to uncover the contradictory nature of intersections; which are simultaneously boundaries and also points of meeting. The Intersections project takes the seminal experience of exclusion as a woman from a space of community and creativity such as a Mosque and translates the complex expressions of both wonder and exclusion that have been my experience while growing up in Pakistan. The resultant wooden frieze emulates a pattern from the Alhambra, which was poised at the intersection of history, culture and art and was a place where Islamic and Western discourses, met and co-existed in harmony and served as a testament to the symbiosis of difference. This installation project substantiates this mutualism, exploring the binaries of public and private, light and shadow, and static and dynamic.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Marvel at the Power of Action Comics: Lessons Comics can Teach Game Designers about Art
    (2020 Teach, Play, Learn Conference, 2020-06-26) Maixner, Gary
    Aesthetics of a board game is one of the most important aspects of the playing experience. The process for creating art can be challenging, especially when considering that the art needs to be truly reflective of the game object that is a part of. Luckily, there is another medium that excels at conveying information in a single panel: comics. This talk will discuss some of the lessons that comics can teach game designers about how to structure a panel (or card) for maximum impact and how to take advantage of dynamic figures to sell any action.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Optics and Visio Dei: interpretations of female mystic Art
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Schendel, Tory L.
    Religious visions are personal experiences in which individuals have a sensory experience that is in some way supernatural or divine. In the context of medieval Christianity, true visionaries were understood to have received revelations directly from God, without mediation from priests. In the tradition of the medieval Church and society, women were relegated to a subordinate role; thus, when the mystic who experienced a vision from God was a woman, the situation required careful interpretation, for in bypassing the intermediary authority of the priest, the woman was potentially subverting a hierarchy which itself was considered to have been established by God. This paper will analyze one of the most important medieval mystics, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), and examine her writings and her images produced in Scivias. It is hypothesized that the medieval ideas of optics and biblical exegesis worked in harmony to structure Hildegard's experiences and to legitimize those experiences to others at the time. In this paper, key images created by Hildegard were analyzed to interpret the descriptions of her experiences and their rendering in visual form in relation to the medieval theories of vision and theology itself. Mentor: Jennifer Lee, Department of Art History, IU Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    The Treachery of Images
    (Elsevier, 2015-11) Hackler, Patrick C.; Gunderman, Richard B.; Department of Radiology and Imaging, IU School of Medicine