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Machines for a Perfect World: Author: Tullar, Christopher Robin; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: Wonder, optimism, and discovery are to me the most positive and exciting aspects of exploration of any kind. These are the central themes in Machines for a Perfect World. My main goal in putting this show together is to create pieces that incite these emotions and ideals in the viewer. The visual languages I utilize to this end are those of science fiction, industry, and architecture - aesthetic influences of mine from as far back as I can recall. Science and more specifically, the fictional accounts surrounding the future of scientific discovery have a particular resonance that has always cap...; Download File | View full details

Other Spaces, Other Voices: Heterotopic Spaces in Island Narratives: Author: Storment, Ryan Lee; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: English; Abstract: Islands periodically reappear and manifest themselves within our cultural texts as locations for fantasy and the exotic. On the surface they are often remote locations that simply serve as interchangeable backgrounds, but their reoccurrence is usually due to their unique ability to be molded. They are served up as blank slates, much like early visions of the western United States, where we meet the Other or encounter exotic voices. Because of this, islands are perceived as Spaces with no Western historical narrative or structure so it becomes simply to move Western structures and complex issue...; Download File | View full details