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The complex and fugitive kind: drawing upon a paradisal world
No full textThe Complex and Fugitive Kind is an exhibition of drawings comprised in two parts. The principal piece is a large-scale panoramic drawing entitled, The Complex. [Fig. 1,2] This piece measures twenty feet in width and six feet in height. The second component is a series of seven small drawings installed on the opposing two walls of the gallery space. The smaller drawings are titled Fugitive Kind. [Fig. 3, 4] The Complex is a palatial, sprawling, yet isolated utopian city depicting a montage of architectural forms, exotic wilderness and the quiet stillness of an imagined civilization. The drawings emerge as a fever dream of cult film references, a myriad of pan-cultural, literary, historical and art historical references. With this work, I aim to present sympathy for the fundamentally human urges for the paradisal, for independence, shelter, innovation, and an existence within a free zone, yet at the same time, providing a critical model for the potentially sinister and disruptive urges for ownership, domain, occupation and totalizing control. The artwork is not utopian, and does not propose to offer any form of utopian solution; yet, the work does take utopia as it's subject. More specifically, I am speaking of the aesthetics of utopia: the spaces and forms, as well as the systems of propagation for these aesthetics in contemporary life, ranging from film maquettes to corporate spaces. The work aims to contradict itself by taking on both the utopian imagination and critical utopias, as experienced through architecture and the landscape in art and culture. It is through the mediation of contemporary art and culture that we experience the collective consciousness of our utopian longing. The work reflects on the struggles to create a fair, pleasurable and self-sustaining society in the collective imagination, and political will, as well as the false appearances of these types of utopias through the economy of visual aesthetics. My drawings are a heterogeneous montage, which suggest that there is no singular vision for utopia (i.e. communism, hippie communes, corporate utopias, etc.) that dominates. My aim is to intertwine the social and the aesthetic, offering both an escape from and a critique of our current conditions.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 29)by Brian Scott Campbel
New methods for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds via organometallic compounds
Get PDFThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 1995.Vita.Includes bibliographical references.by Brian Scott Bronk.Ph.D
Movie theaters and real estate : "an economic and marketing analysis of cinemas"
Get PDFThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.Includes bibliographical references.by Brian Scott Rein.M.S
Contact sensing--a sequential decision approach to sensing manipulation contact features
Get PDFThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186).by Brian Scott Eberman.Ph.D
Factors controlling the distribution of the high intertidal green alga, Prasiola
Get PDFby Brian Scott Anderson."A thesis presented to the faculty of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories."Thesis (M.S.) -- San Jose State University, 1987."A thesis presented to the faculty of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
Optimization of a mixer-ejector system for supersonic civilian transport aircraft
Get PDFThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).by Brian Scott Teeple.Ph.D
Whole-arm manipulation : kinematics and control
Get PDFThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1989.Includes bibliographical references.Support provided in part by the Office of Naval Research University Initiative Program under the Office of Naval Research. N00014-86-K-0685 Support provided in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research. N00014-85-K-0124by Brian Scott Eberman.M.S
Brian Scott : Trade Show
No full textFarrell studies the commercial product lines imagined by Scott and convincingly packaged as a trade show that parodies corporate strategies. Investigating the market-driven imperatives of the "technological vision", the author unveils the work's social commentary about "techno-dreamworld". Biographical notes on artist and curator. 10 bibl. ref
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