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Crisis and Culture (open access)

Crisis and Culture

The research seeks to know if the COVID-19 pandemic has created culture change by measuring the criteria of work outputs and actions of organization members. As a part of this research, a survey was developed to identify how and to what extent workplace culture has been impacted. 111 professional services staff from a North Texas business were surveyed. We identified three factors for criteria of work outputs and behavior that indicates the current level of change of the culture. The three factors are identified as, Expectations (α= 0.786), Accuracy (α= 0.603), and Timeliness (α= 0.552). Factor analysis and descriptive statistics are used to analyze the result from the survey.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Beaver, Zachery R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gainsay Taxonomies (open access)

The Gainsay Taxonomies

Through painting, I use materiality to describe the material world. By rooting my practice in visual culture and art history, I seek to extend the meaning of images beyond their initial form. The coalescing of opposing and complimentary formal elements accentuate the visual and contextual friction. This allows the work to exist in an ambiguous state. Seen together, my works appear disparate, but they suggest alternative meanings through association with one another. The works can exist on their own, but engage in dialogue when juxtaposed against each other. Although about specific occurrences, the works afford the viewer their own interpretations.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Huynh, Loc
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memory Beast (open access)

Memory Beast

Memory Beast was a series of experiments in multispecies collaborative storytelling. A new tool was created, a memory beast, a holotype representing our ideas of specific species, based on memories and drawings collected in participatory research. The fabricated memory beasts, placed next to their biological counterparts, made visible the conflation of living species with personal memory and cultural imagery. Using this new tool, implanted with sonic recordings of cows, the beginnings of an interspecies pidgin language was developed. Memory Beast imagined and enacted new pathways to finite flourishing on a wounded earth, planting story seeds for alternative realities.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Grasham, Morgan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Counting Seconds (open access)

Counting Seconds

Each of my oil or pastel paintings is an observation of seemingly mundane familiar places that I encounter day-to-day. I think of my art as a kind of visual journalism, where I examine common human emotions evoked by a careful consideration of the substance of light interacting with spaces or objects. The naturalistically rendered compositions are cropped and depicted in small fragments, allowing the viewer a brief glimpse into a quiet portrayal of the world. Essentially, my art allows me to share my sensibilities and to connect with others through portraits of ordinary, yet intimate, moments in time.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Shurbet, Kelsey
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Acquired Driftwood Series: Ghost Shrimp

Work of art in spider wood, aquarium plants, 3d prints by artist Russell Anderson as part of his 2021 exhibition, entitled "Modified Aesthetics on an Inner Space".
Date: December 2020
Creator: Anderson, Russell
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Light Bar Series: 36" Bar

Work of art in vinyl, aquarium light, brackets by artist Russell Anderson as part of his 2021 exhibition, entitled "Modified Aesthetics on an Inner Space".
Date: December 2020
Creator: Anderson, Russell
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Acquired Driftwood Series: Ghost Shrimp: Detail

Work of art in spider wood, aquarium plants, 3d prints by artist Russell Anderson as part of his 2021 exhibition, entitled "Modified Aesthetics on an Inner Space".
Date: December 2020
Creator: Anderson, Russell
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Light Bar Series: 48" Bar

Work of art in vinyl, aquarium light, brackets by artist Russell Anderson as part of his 2021 exhibition, entitled "Modified Aesthetics on an Inner Space".
Date: December 2020
Creator: Anderson, Russell
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library