Arianna Gazca BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2016

Blue DISCORD

How does music and emotion help create substantial quality for the moving image? How do they do so without the aid of any representational qualities attached to the image’s object in question? By referring to the theory of dérive from Guy Debord, as well as the theory of absolute film, this text investigates emotional experiences in relation to music and everyday life. In order to properly explore these concepts and their application to what is called visual music (musical structures visualized in abstract imagery via tempo, pitch, etc.), a method known as graphic notation (visual representation of sound via symbols) was used to conduct experimental fieldwork in order to determine what sounds link to certain emotions. Furthermore, by using resources such as Guy Debord’s essays in the Situationist International Anthology, Oskar Fischinger: 1900 – 1967; Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction, Jacky Bowring’s A Field Guide to Melancholy, and Michael P. Steinberg’s Music and Melancholy, there will be an established juxtaposition expressed between the idea of “moving wallpaper” and visual music in discussing non-representational art and animation in relation to music. This will potentially help spectators unfamiliar with this medium to understand and perhaps look more critically at what experimental and abstract moving images have to offer in terms of substantial quality in content.

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Molly Steadman BFA Printmaking Thesis Spring 2016

Kathryn Mcanalley BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2016

Kai Jaye BFA General Fine Arts Thesis Spring 2016

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Katherine Kawano BFA Painting + Drawing Thesis Spring 2016

Joseph Mcgehee BFA Painting + Drawing Thesis Spring 2016

Hannah Ames BFA Sculpture Thesis Spring 2016

Hannah Hertrich BFA General Fine Arts Thesis Spring 2016

Evan Humphreys BFA General Fine Arts Thesis Spring 2016

Arianna Gazca BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2016

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Mckenzie Green BFA Printmaking Thesis Spring 2016

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Colin Laurel BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Kanani Miyamoto MFA Print Media Capstone 2016

Lynsey Nelson MFA Print Media Capstone 2016

Brandi Kruse MFA Print Media Capstone 2016

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Karylynn Keppol BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Anna Colasanti BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Mareika Glenn BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Malcolm Bridwell BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Morgan Viger BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Marlowe Dobbe BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Robert Dunsmuir BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Kelsey Holland-Rayle BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2016

Amy Meyer BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2016

Ryan Miller BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2016

Nancy Guzman BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2016

Hannah Lewis-Lopes BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2016

Ryan Krueger BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2016

Maddie Maschger BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2016

Alexandra Hulsey Photography BFA Thesis Spring 2016

Matthew Gaston BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2016

Eric Brookens BFA Painting + Drawing Thesis Spring 2016