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Item Reflection(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022) Talamantez, Nathan Robert; Groeniger, Scott; ArtThough every individual’s life is a unique journey to experience, people are more alike than different. One commonality is in the types of moments in which they share – moments like birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood. Moments, however, are fleeting. As ephemeral as they seem, memories serve not only as personal reminders of an individual’s place in the world, but memories also serve as the impervious threads woven between beings, creating the tapestry known as humanity. Using current technology, photographs are creative, fixed, and permanent reflections of the ever fleeting second that becomes one’s past at the instant the shutter releases. A photographer’s skill and creativity serves as a conduit to link the past (the photo) to the present (viewing the photo). The thesis exhibit, “Reflection,” enables patrons to interactively engage with all they embody by stepping INTO the past by having it at their feet, “beneath the present,” an installation piece encompassing the floor. Using floor and wall space, the intention was to view a reflection of the past and repurpose what had been captured by re-imaging the medium and developing a new visual experience that was reflective of current technology coupled with experiences, memories, and creativity. In so doing, this offers new media for interpretation and reflection by a new audience to think about how photographs and memory connect to a specific point within a lifetime yet transcend space and time.Item Ecopoiesis and the Goldilox Archive(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2019) Cooper Giegerich, Kimberly Jeanne; Groeniger, Scott; ArtEcopoiesis and the Goldilox Archive examines humanity’s anxiety ridden relationships with the environments of Earth and Mars. For this project I have mined many gigabytes of image data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) digital image archives. Over the course of this project I have amassed my own archive of images and corresponding data. Based on this data, I have created large format archival digital prints. At its core, my thesis project is a collection of research data remixed into my own science fiction image narratives. This project investigates and expands the possibilities of how humans utilize and interact with publically accessible knowledge and digital archives. I also explore questions of how image and scientific data is appropriated, manipulated and fictionalized as a contemporary art material. Buried in the layers of appropriated research, data collection and fiction are questions concerning habitability. This project has been influenced by rapid climate change on Earth as well as humanity’s increased interest in colonizing Mars. My thesis work is an effort to visualize what humanity’s home could look like in the near future. This overarching ethos of research allows my artwork to function as a space for me to contemplate seemingly difficult or unresolvable questions concerning ecosystem stability and environmental habitability.Item Portalis(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2019) Teh, Soo Mei; Cohan, Charles; ArtMany technological changes have dramatically changed the landscape of human interaction and connection. With our daily use of computers, smart phones, and other technological advances, we live in an age of constant and instant global connectivity. We are more connected to one another today in a manner never before in human history, yet somehow, many of us are increasingly feeling more disconnected. As a young adult living in the digital age, I yearn for more in life than just an abundance of likes, views, comments and “friends” online. I have been slowly recognizing the darker side of technology and social media, and more importantly, at the cost of human intimacy, connection and peace of mind. Portalis is an installation based upon a personal reflection of the various relationships between myself and others, both online and offline. I utilize thin kozo paper to create the various 2 and 3 dimensional forms such as shoji screens, a print, a couch, a collection of mirrors, and a floor lamp. These objects have autobiographical associations, and are also ghostly stand-ins or representative avatars of the human condition and suggest emotions/sensations with respect to a lack of intimate connection in the contemporary world . In this exhibition, I strive to create a space that can be individual and communal at the same time in terms of its shared private experience, a place we can find value in vulnerability and an environment dedicated to shared silence and contemplation. Being fascinated with the multiplicious nature of paper as material, I want to provide the audience with an opportunity to experience the papers simultaneous vulnerability and strength, as well as the installations quietude. It is through this material vulnerability that I am able to expose my private emotional vulnerability through my practice as an artist.