Times-Mu-Ta-Tion (open access)

Times-Mu-Ta-Tion

My work as an American artist (Korean diaspora) reflects the interplay of diverse cultures and locations that have shaped my experiences. Through the exploration of photo and video archives from my travels, I uncover patterns and images that symbolize both place and transition. Utilizing digital technology, I fragment and reconstruct visual elements, evoking a sense of longing and disconnection. I also investigate the relationship between the body and space, using multi-modal responses. My work aims to capture dualities and stimulate contemplative meditation through the juxtaposition of tangible and intangible, clear and hazy, large and small, and intimate and distant elements.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Suh, Jae-Eun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artist interviews and revisionist art history: women of African descent, critical practice and methods of rewriting dominant narratives (open access)

Artist interviews and revisionist art history: women of African descent, critical practice and methods of rewriting dominant narratives

Article reflecting on over ten years of conducting and collecting interviews with and by women artists of African descent in a variety of formats (e.g. narrative arts writing, academic research and documentary film/video) to note the specific ways that artists’ interviews help to rewrite art-historical narratives.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Cross, Lauren E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the sculpture No Solid Form Can Contain You using Gloria Anzaldúa's Theory of Nepantla (open access)

Analysis of the sculpture No Solid Form Can Contain You using Gloria Anzaldúa's Theory of Nepantla

This research project studies ways that space shapes identity by examining a contemporary sculpture using a multicultural theory. The author focuses on analyzing the role of physical space in the construction of cultural identity across time by studying Mariana Castillo-Deball’s No Solid Form Can Contain You (2010) through Gloria Anzaldua’s Nepantilism theory.
Date: May 5, 2020
Creator: López Gutiérrez, Nansy Lizbeth
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Texas Fashion Collection: Assessment and Preservation Training (open access)

UNT Texas Fashion Collection: Assessment and Preservation Training

Data management plan for the grant, "UNT Texas Fashion Collection: Assessment and Preservation Training."
Date: 2023-12-01/2024-08-31
Creator: Becker, Annette
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brachaid

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Brachaid is a collection of photographs that explore the blindness of our perspective that is informed by images. By photographing peripheral landscapes like wastewater processing facilities, the edges of temporary streams, and stormwater basins, the project uses the landscape and its perceived neutrality to foreground how the production of images constructs our perception. The work in Brachaid emphasizes the production of images, from subject and framing choices to the use of imaging software, to demonstrate that such production is regularly and radically obscured in most of the images we consume, and that this same structure exists in our lived reality.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Evans, Chris Wright
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visual Narratives: Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Design captions transcript

Visual Narratives: Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Design

Video recording featuring guest panelists, Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D., Omari Souza, and Wesley Taylor, this fourth installment of the 2044 series frames Afrofuturism and futurist thinking as a means for exploring the practices of design and museum curation as well as implications for art/design pedagogy. The panelists explore and discuss how hegemony is perpetuated, sharing the ways in which they decolonize within their curricula and pedagogy, as well as practice anti-racism in their work to reimagine risk or resist classification. While design institutions perpetuate neoliberalist ideals and language and teach under the paradigm of design for consumption, art/design education has the capacity to make a great impact by embracing the power of art and design to imagine alternative futures. The speakers also discuss important issues of cultural ethics, including copyright and appropriation, protections, and speaking up for community.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Cooks, Bridget R.; Souza, Omari & Taylor, Wesley
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library