On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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CAConrad (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
Center for Arts and Language
Poster for the (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop with American poet CAConrad, in the Tap Room (Memorial Hall), Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 6:30pm. Explore the extreme present through meditative creative writing prompts and exercises that can be applied to any form of artistic practice.
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Once there was there wasn't
Svetlana Bailey
Objects, places and events that occur in separate times and places can coexist psychologically. My work supposes that this coexistence can be reconciled with photographs, which, although normally fixed to particular times, locationsand stories, are nevertheless able to travel, in boxes, or as mind images on overlapping currents.
I return to places of imaginative influence in my life: to my grandmother's house in the Russian countryside where I spent my summers as a child, and to my parents' home in Germany. Through this journey of return, I am transported in time, as if opening a time capsule. Here I discover layers of image fragments captured in stories, old objects, images in albums and magazines. Using still life techniques, I construct pictures that include objects found on location with photographs that I bring with me. To represent the non-linear experience of time and place to which these setups refer, I arrange them with multiple perspectives within a single image.
This work considers the fictional and non fictional, fused by the perspectival image that renders all elements equally onto a picture plane. It is a journey into the past as a metaphorical stepping back, in search of an Archimedean point from which to comprehend images through photographs.
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Absolute Pitch and Tone Identification
Gilead Bar-Elli
Absolute pitch (AP), besides the psychological and neurological interests it has, raises some conceptual difficulties that can teach us about the richness of our notion of musical tone and various aspects of its identification. It is argued that when AP is conceived under a slim notion of identifying the pitch of a crude sound, it is hardly meaningful and has no significance in music comprehension. The rich notion, which is the meaningful and important one, involves knowing the position of a tone in a tone-space and its relations. This is presented as experiential: hearing and identifying tones under concepts and relations that are experienced rather than figured out or derived on the basis of crude identification of bare tones. Since many of these concepts and relations are musically meaningful, this rich notion of identification is thus connected to musical understanding and aesthetic appreciation of a musical work. It may also be claimed to be vital in passing between different sense modalities, and can explain various aspects of AP and puzzles connected with it.
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Aesthetics and Environmental Engagement/Sustainability
Arnold Berleant, Emily Brady, and Patricia Johanson
What is the role of aesthetics in environmental art? Any difference between practice of environmental activism and environmental art?
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CD/CF II Symposium: Next Generation Infrastructure: Future-Proofing Infrastructure for the Anthropocene
Hillary Brown
Next Generation Infrastructure highlights hopeful examples from around the world that demonstrate how our complex, interdependent utilities can support an urbanizing world, subject to carbon constraints and the impacts of climate change. It shows how critical infrastructure might be designed to be more efficient, less environmentally damaging, and more resilient, with crosscutting benefits and lower costs.
Hillary Brown is Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, Principle of New Civic Works and Founder of the City of New York’s Office of Sustainable Design. -
Visionaire 66: Ritual
Maurizio Cattelan, Barbara Kruger, and Bruce Weber
1 box (3 candles) Limited edition of 200 copies Three 9-inch-tall sculptural artist candles
"Visionaire releases its 66th issue, RITUAL, a set of sculptures in the form of sculptural scented candles created by three world-renowned artists. Featuring Maurizio Cattelan, Barbara Kruger, and Bruce Weber. Maurizio Cattelan gave Visionaire a particular Italian plunger that was reproduced at 100% scale. The scent of fresh roses is created by IFF perfumer Bruno Jovanovic, famous for his unconventional olfactory approach. Barbara Kruger transformed one of her iconic 2D works into a sculpture that smells like marijuana, a scent developed by IFF perfumer Laurent Le Guernec. Bruce Weber embraced the latest in technology as he 3D captured his current favorite male model Trevor Signorino. Award-winning IFF Master Perfumer, Carlos Benaim created the scent of the beach on a hot summer day on the Jersey Shore." -- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
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Rapid response
James Chae
Rapid Response is a design practice that responds to the accelerating speed of consumption. It holds a reflective and responsive mirror to our culture of overconsumption. With an informed critical eye and kleptocratic hand, I consume, sample, and render the visual energy of commerce and respond directly in the stream on available platforms and on a number of scales.
Central to this research-based practice is a desire to expand discourse. Through a close examination of commercial language, the visual techniques of corporate branding, and the aesthetic narratives of commercial spaces, I study the persuasive forces of advertising, subvert the myths, and enact a counter-tactic against the absurdities of creative production in free market cultures. My practice inhabits both the studio and the classroom, as well as events and workshops to produce spaces of response.
A methodology of response is reflected in both the work I produce and the scenarios I create; for myself and others. The agenda of my practice privileges speed and momentum. I encourage the utilization of design tools to toward a performative critical response to the environment and moment designers inhabit today.
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student, year of graduation: 2018. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Printmaking Critique. Faculty: Cornelia McSheehy.
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student, year of graduation: 2018. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Printmaking Critique. Faculty: Cornelia McSheehy.
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student, year of graduation: 2018. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Printmaking Critique. Faculty: Cornelia McSheehy.
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student, year of graduation: 2018. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Printmaking Critique. Faculty: Cornelia McSheehy.
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student, year of graduation: 2018. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Printmaking Critique. Faculty: Cornelia McSheehy.
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This summer I spent a lot of time sleeping with my head in a pool of moonlight
Allyson Church, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student, year of graduation: 2018. Major: Printmaking. Class: Junior Printmaking Critique. Faculty: Cornelia McSheehy.
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Confessions
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Cover for Confessions, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Monster
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Cover for Monster, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Nonbinary : Embodiment
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Cover for Nonbinary : Embodiment, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Soñamos sentirnos libres: under construction
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Interference Archive
Cover for Soñamos sentirnos libres: under construction, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Chairs on the Dock
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and DSTL Arts
Cover for Chairs on the Dock, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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One Wednesday
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Kristyna Baczynski
Cover for One Wednesday, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Good Fibrations : A DIY Textile Guide with Ecology in Mind - For all Skill Levels, it's Sure to Provide
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Charlie Best
Cover for Good Fibrations : A DIY Textile Guide with Ecology in Mind - For all Skill Levels, it's Sure to Provide, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Bellmer on Baseball Caps
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Daniel Cantrell
Cover for Bellmer on Baseball Caps, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.