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Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Maria Popescu. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Maria Popescu. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
"Body-ody-oddy" Opening Reception Image
No full textThis digital image was photographed by Helen Files and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in December, 2018.This is an image of the opening reception for the Body-ody-oddy exhibition held in the Clough Hanson Gallery on October 26, 2018. The exhibition consisted of artists exploring the body at, against, and beyond its boundaries, creating hybrids, amalgams, and excesses that illuminate the ways that politics and pleasures are made flesh. It featured work by Katie Torn, Alex Paulus, Melissa Wilkinson, and Moth Moth Moth and the Haus of Phantosea.
Alex Paulus commented on his work, stating "My paintings are a representation of how ridiculous I think life can be...I also like to include humor in the work. If my art can make people laugh and feel good, I’ve succeeded. The paintings are usually very bright and bold in color, and the subject matter can be a little bizarre. The use of brightly colored paint seems to curb some the strange imagery and make it more palatable to the viewer."
Melissa Wilkinson commented as well, saying "These series of paintings focus on my interest in dichotomies: obscuring and revealing, attraction and repulsion, good and evil, the past and the present. I appropriate imagery from a variety of sources in order to develop a pastiche that fractures the conventional male gaze and positions art historical models as both subject and spectacle. I choose to dismantle epic narratives from the past to create a schizophrenic perspective. The images break from their original sources into fragments, creating a complex visual experience that both irritates and seduces. It is through this body of work that I seek to challenge the hetero-normative male gaze and reinvent a fluid view that fluctuates between unconventional representations of the erotic body.
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Vishwesh Ravva. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
Nickel Schiff Base Complexes for Light Driven Hydrogen Production
No full textPresentation by Meghan Kiker ('19) and Alex Graves ('19) delivered at the Rhodes College Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS).Over the next century, the world's population is expected to increase at a drastic rate; therefore it is essential to consider new and more efficient sources of energy such as the use of artificial photosynthesis to generate hydrogen gas. Hence, the development of more active and robust catalysts is necessary in order to make artificial photosynthesis a viable method of hydrogen generation. Recent studies have shown that cobalt complexes with polypyridyl groups are highly active and thus lead to a lower overpotential and higher turnover rate of hydrogen gas. Using 1,1'-(pyridine-2,6-diyl)bis(2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethyl)ethan-1-imine is a promising ligand to study due to its electronic similarity to previously used ligands for cobalt catalyzed hydrogen production. However, the two pyridine substituents may act as pendant bases, enhancing its activity. Nickel complexes were synthesized with this ligand and were spectroscopically and electrochemically characterized. X-ray diffraction revealed an octahedral geometry for [Ni(EtPyPDI)NO3]NO3 comprising pentadentate chelation of the EtPyPDI ligand and nitrate coordination. Cyclic voltammetry experiments showed reversible redox waves at -0.92 and -1.77 V vs Fc/Fc+. In the presence of acetic acid, a catalytic wave corresponding to hydrogen formation was observed at - 2.26 V vs Fc/Fc+. Hydrogen production was observed under electrocatalytic and light-driven conditions
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Elizabeth Sommerkamp. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
"Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say" Artist Talk Image
No full textThis digital image was photographed and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in January, 2018.This is an image of Rashayla Marie Brown's artist talk before her "Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say" exhibition. The exhibition opened the next day on January 19 in the Clough Hanson gallery
Modeling the Evolution and Diffusion of a Rumor in a Close-Knit Community
No full textPresentation by Brandon Bates ('18), delivered at the Rhodes College Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS).In the age of "fake news," society has become increasingly self-aware in its ability to spread and interpret information from within. Today, news spreads at incredibly high rates due to the accessibility and influence of modern communications. Similar viruses, information spreads by infecting susceptible individuals, and over time, it mutates into a completely different infection. However, unlike viruses, there is no vaccine to keep people immune from information, and in fact, people tend to promote transmission. In an effort to capture this phenomena, we've created an agent-based model that simulates the evolution of a rumor throughout a close-knit community. Our simulation tracks the spread of a rumor as well as which pieces are distorted, restored, and lost. Our goal is to understand how environmental factors and individual tendencies affect rumor transmission, evolution, and overall fidelity
Kang Youwei and the Modernization of China
No full textPresentation by ZongFang Li ('18) delivered at the Rhodes College Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS).Nineteenth century China was a time of turmoil. Facing both internal and external threats, Intellectuals in late nineteenth century China had their own interpretation toward the fate of China. Intellectuals were debating the most fundamental questions: what is the role of Confucianism in China' future. Western audiences in 1960s and 1970s commonly believed that Confucianism itself is an obstacle for China to modernize, since modern China eventually did not put emphasis on Confucianism and its social structures. However, Kang You wei was one of intellectuals in nineteenth century China who tried to change Qing China into a constitutional monarchy that put emphasis on Confucianism institution. This URCAS presentation tries to show Kang You wei' effort of preserving Chinese tradition and maintaining Confucian institution, by analyzing Kang's primary sources. Therefore, this president hopes to give a clearer picture to the audiences about China's struggle in modernization and major factors in its failures of preserving Confucian institutions
"Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say" Installation Image
No full textThis digital image was photographed and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in January, 2018.This is an image documenting the "Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say" exhibition.Melding the aesthetics of kitsch (bourgeois realism) and communist art (social realism) with those of high art (museum design) and film, RMB’s work explores the coercive foundation of systems of display found in the desire to communicate a clear, moral message across various cultural contexts. With text and subtitles in direct address to the viewer, the exhibition also reflects the distance between an object’s past meaning and personal meditation on its meaning in the present. The opening was held in the Clough Hanson Gallery on January 19, 2018 from 5:00-7:00 pm