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Item 17 Soils: Settling, Stealing, Stirring(2022-08) Linqduist, Stephanie A.Within 17 Soils: Settling, Stealing, Stirring I invite the viewer, especially those non-native like myself, to look at soil with new eyes. Using 9 soils from Mni Sota Makoce/ Minnesota and 6 soils from the Gorama Mɛnde chiefdom in Sierra Leone, I paint images of connection to earth. Through the lens of analog photography and digital manipulation, my frame wanders from the farming village in Mɔndema to my own backyard and public gardens in the Twin Cities. Within this text is a collectively written soil index, selected images, and essays describing my internal approach towards creating this installation of paintings and light bench.Item Fictions of the Other(2016-06) Baek, JiewonThis study identifies a dissonance within the humanities between an urge to overcome the centrality of the human and an inability to let go of the human, and frames this dissonance as an ethics and politics of creative media. The literature and visual media examined offer us a way to think about the current value of "human value" in how we fiction the figure of the other. Four contexts are given that exemplify this fictional ethics. First is the context of friendship and community in the philosophies of Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida, and Nancy. At the point where a sense of the common cannot be avowed vis-à-vis the absolute strangeness of the other, friendship is thought as a mode of fictioning the other in excess of the mechanisms of language. In the second context of the biopolitical and immaterial economy, I examine how the literature of François Bon and Leslie Kaplan fictions the surplus-word as an ethical figure that mediates a relation to the other at the disjuncture of the materiality of the other's human face and the biopolitical autonomy of the common devoid of the human. The third context deals with the case of migration in Europe and the question of hospitality, through a study of how the documentary films of Sylvain George allow us to see the figure of the other at the borders of surveillance apparatuses other than in terms of the stranger or foreigner. The fourth context addresses the phenomenon of a global digital face culture through a study of Jean-Paul Marcheschi's paintings, Gérard Rondeau's photographs, and various artists' digital facial projections. In the way that they formalize the visual dimension inherent in the rhetorical trope of prosopopeia and give face to the faceless, these works stretch what we mean by an art that humanizes. Through these case studies, I argue that we in the humanities have been too hasty in superseding the value of the human and that the basis of thinking a humanism of the other lies in the altering of how we fiction our perceptions of the other.Item I'm Not Yelling(2024-04-06) Polikoff, WhalenItem Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Roadway Maintenance Phase II: Developing a Vision Guidance System for the Robotic Roadway Message Painter(Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2013-02) Rosandich, Ryan G.Repainting existing roadway markings (turn arrows, STOP messages, railroad crossings, etc.) is an important task for transportation maintenance organizations. MnDOT estimates that over 75% of symbol and message painting is the repainting of existing markings. It would be extremely valuable for an automated painting system to have a vision guidance capability whereby an existing mark could be repainted accurately with little operator input. In this project a vision system was developed that is capable of identifying existing painted pavement markings and determining their dimensions, location, and orientation. Techniques were also developed whereby this information could be used to determine the location of the marking in the workspace of a painting robot to enable it to accurately repaint the marking. The vehicle-mounted robotic painter is still being built and tested, so final test results will not be available until the vision system can be completely integrated with the painter, and the two can be tested together. The accuracy of the projection produced using the techniques developed in this project would suggest that the final system will be capable of repainting pavement markings almost exactly where they appear on the roadway. Expected benefits of the deployment of a vision-guided robotic painting device include improved operator safety, improved productivity, and improved flexibility in roadway marking and repainting operations. Eventual users of a device using this technology could be city, county, state, and federal government agencies and private companies or contractors.Item Miné Okubo(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Hanstad, Chelsie; Huebsch, Louann; Kantar, Danny; Siewert, KathrynItem Persistencia de la cosmovisión y la concepción espacial indígenas en imágenes andinas de la religiosidad cristiana: una descripción de tres objetos culturales de los siglos XVII y XVIII en Perú(2013-09) Pilares, NellyThis dissertation involves an analysis of three Colonial Peruvian texts to argue that the religious images as treated in Guaman Poma de Ayala's Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno ; Juan de Espinosa Medrano's drama El hijo pródigo; and a well-known painting La Virgen del Cerro, reveal the persistence or presence of an Indian worldview; that the Indigenous signs and Inca's distribution of the space have a continued presence within the Andean-Christian religious vision. This work is anchored in a semiotic analysis of theater and painting; in the perspective of cultural hibridity advanced in the work of García Canclini, Gruzinski and Moraña and in the postcolonial perspective of Mignolo and Quijano.Item Wendy Rose(Voices from the Gaps, 2004) Perron, DavidItem Windows, Mirrors, and the Unrepresentable Earth(University of Minnesota, Department of Art, 2017) Johnson, Michael T"Windows, Mirrors, and the Unrepresentable Earth" is Michael Johnson's written thesis submitted to the faculty of the Department of Art in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Fine Arts Degree in Art 2017.