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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Film Animation Video Senior Show 2010
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The blue poster documents the 2010 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2010 spring semester.
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Film Animation Video Senior Show 2010
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The green poster documents the 2010 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2010 spring semester.
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Film Animation Video Senior Show 2010
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The pink poster documents the 2010 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2010 spring semester.
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Film Animation Video Senior Show 2010
RISD Archives and Film, Animation & Video Department
The grey poster documents the 2010 Film Animation Video Senior Show held in the RISD Auditorium during the 2010 spring semester.
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The Aesthetics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): from the Scientific Laboratory to an Artwork
Silvia Casini
This article investigates the aesthetic potential of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), a medical imaging technique, both inside the laboratory and in the arts. By combining Rancière’s understanding of aesthetics with Merleau-Ponty’s notion of embodied perception, it argues that an image-generating technique conceived in the scientific field can successfully migrate into the realm of fine art, opening up new aesthetic and perceptual possibilities. Although aesthetic qualities are already present in the laboratory, they remain hidden by the necessity of reading the image-data obtained according to the interpretative framework of the medical discourse. Two paths are covered: the first goes from the viewer’s encounter with the MRI-based sculptures by Marc Didou, the case-study examined, to the principles of MRI; the second describes the principles of MRI concluding with the artwork. The process of travelling along these paths highlights the aesthetic potential inscribed both in MRI and in our seeing.
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My Complicated Relationship with Food : Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Zachary Auburn
Cover for My Complicated Relationship with Food : Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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My Complicated Relationship with Food : Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Zachary Auburn
Cover for My Complicated Relationship with Food : Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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My Complicated Relationship with Food : Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Zachary Auburn
Cover for My Complicated Relationship with Food : Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Manzine : a publication about the male phenomenon
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Kevin Braddock
Cover for Manzine : a publication about the male phenomenon, from the RISD Zine Collection.
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Cometbus : The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Aaron Cometbus
Cover for Cometbus : The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Transmission
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Daniel
Cover for Transmission, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Reservoir Avenue, Cranston/Providence : Ten Natural Color Album Prints
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Aaron DeMuth
Cover for Reservoir Avenue, Cranston/Providence : Ten Natural Color Album Prints, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Identification
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Zachary Hamilton
Cover for Identification, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Bonnie Johnson
Cover for What I Did on My Summer Vacation, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Unpopular Opinions of a Jook Sing
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Diana Mai
Cover for Unpopular Opinions of a Jook Sing, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Drink More Water, Be More Honest : 30 Lessons From My 20s
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Sarah Mirk
Cover for Drink More Water, Be More Honest : 30 Lessons From My 20s, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Why Doesn't She Just Leave? : Responding Appropriately to Abusive Relationships
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Bri Pruett
Cover for Why Doesn't She Just Leave? : Responding Appropriately to Abusive Relationships, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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All Night Long
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Same Coin Press
Cover for All Night Long, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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All Night Long
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Same Coin Press
Cover for All Night Long, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Everyone Calls Themselves an Ally Until It Is Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Xhopakelxhit
Cover for Everyone Calls Themselves an Ally Until It Is Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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A Functional Model of the Aesthetic Response
Daniel Conrad
In a process of somatic evolution, the brain semi-randomly generates initially-unstable neural circuits that are selectively stabilized if they succeed in making sense out of raw sensory input. The human aesthetic response serves the function of stabilizing the circuits that successfully mediate perception and interpretation, making those faculties more agile, conferring selective advantage. It is triggered by structures in art and nature that provoke the making of sense. Art is deliberate human action aimed at triggering the aesthetic response in others; thus, if successful, it serves the same function of making perception and interpretation more agile. These few principles initiate a cascade of emergent phenomena which account for many observed qualities of aesthetics, including universality and idiosyncrasy of taste, the relevance of artists’ intentions, the virtues of openness and resonance, the dysfunction of formulaic art, and the fact that methods of art correspond to modes of perceptual transformation.
