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Get PDFResume of Wang Peng (王蓬). The artist, born in Shandong in 1964, experimented with painting, installation art, sculpture, performances, photography, and time-based medium throughout his career. The artist moved to the United States in the 1990s and returned to China in 2000 (Asian Art Archive, Wang Peng ). This resume documents his time at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, China) and his solo and group exhibitions from the mid-1980s to 1995. (Nicole Wang \u2726)https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1494/thumbnail.jp
The Changing Shape and Subject of Man-- A Review of Zhan Wang\u27s Sculpture
Get PDFThis review in Chinese by Yi Ying, to be published on Art Currents and translated in English, focuses on the transition of Zhan Wang\u27s sculpture. It discusses the exploration of Zhan Wang\u27s art language and form, which is influenced by his classical sculpture education background and avant-garde movement. (Zhuocheng Jiang \u2726)https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1438/thumbnail.jp
A Study in Wreckage
No full textThis fragmentary memoir seeks to examine and deconstruct my overarching experiences with my body and, more specifically, the period of time in which I was anorexic. Spanning almost the entirety of my life from childhood through to the present day, this work concerns both what preceded the diagnosis and followed the “recovery” in order to contextualize my eating disorder within a broader set of experiences and themes. My memoir touches directly on related and paralleling topics of girlhood, womanhood, puberty, motherhood, love, materialism, misogyny, and the patriarchy through metaphors concerning wreckage and destruction. This work as a whole is largely about how love itself is a form of wreckage. It explores the human tendency to obsess over tragedies and destruction. These episodes of wreckage excavate the destructive habits of anorexia and anxiety while concurrently centering emotionally turbulent mindsets in terms of place. Through these depictions of destruction, my thesis simultaneously externalizes the internal, highlighting not only how I interact with place through historical contexts and sensory experiences, but how I perceive the body as a place itself. The body, too, becomes a site of historical contextualization and sensory experiences, demonstrating how an eating disorder is a complicated, destructive force as storied as physical places. The reverberating and consequence-inducing nature of destruction along with the memoir’s breadth of topics accentuates the cyclicality of eating disorders. The memoir’s non sequential narrative similarly buttresses this notion of cyclicality. In that vein, this work can also be read as a departure from the traditional recovery narrative. As the stressors that caused the eating disorder never wholly evaporate, anorexia is a consistent looming threat. This creative work strives to be a generative place for conversations about the body, particularly a platform for genuine and brutal discussions of anorexia and disordered eating
Integrating AI into Equity Research: A Case Study on Lululemon in the Apparel Retail Industry
Get PDFThis study explores the development of a generative AI model, My GPT, tailored to provide equity research for individual investors, with a specific focus on Lululemon Athletica Inc. The project\u27s goal was to create an accessible financial analysis tool that could potentially rival traditional, costly financial services. The research involved iterative model development, beginning with a baseline model and advancing through four subsequent iterations, each refined based on the increasing complexity of prompts and the depth of training data. These iterations incorporated detailed financial reports, market trends, and industry-specific metrics to enhance the model\u27s analytical accuracy and relevance. The final model was capable of producing a detailed equity research report, reflecting strengths in comprehensive financial understanding and industry insights but with limitations in capturing real-time market data and the subtleties of financial forecasting. The outcomes of this project demonstrate the potential of AI in democratizing financial analysis, providing individual investors with robust tools for informed financial research
From Struggle to Resistance: Contemporary Arab American Christian Protagonists\u27 Hybridity and Interfaith Solidarity
No full textThis thesis seeks to reinscribe the multifaceted experiences of Arab American Christians in contemporary Arab American novels. This paper analyzes how hybridity is constructed and negotiated in Diana Abu-Jaber\u27s Arabian Jazz, Susan Muaddi Darraj\u27s The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly, and Inaam Kachachi\u27s Al-Hafīda Al-Amrīkīyya as a case study. These three novels feature Arab American Christian protagonists who undergo a profound reversal of embracing their Arab heritage. By embracing their liminality identities, these characters maintain their loyalty to the Islamicate community from which they originate, which allows them to develop an interfaith solidarity with Arab Muslims both in the United States and abroad as they resist essentialist discourses about citizenship and belonging. By spotlighting one sub-group of the Arab American community\u27s experiences, this thesis advocates approaching Arab American literary scholarship in such a way that allows a better understanding of intergroup dynamics in the Arab American community at large
Exhibition Document: ZHANG Pei-Li
Get PDFTwo solo exhibitions of the artist are introduced in this document. Materials, dimensions, and descriptions of the works are illustrated and described in Chinese. This document is copied from the Black Book , volume 1 in 1994, titled The Red Flag and edited by Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing and Zeng Xiaojun, a publication without an ISBN. (Yifan Shang \u2725)https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1452/thumbnail.jp
Artist Statement: ZHANG Hong-Tu
Get PDFThe artist provides an explanation on the creation of holes in his work, which he used in his Material Mao series. (Yifan Shang \u2725)https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/1468/thumbnail.jp
