Thesis (M.A.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 10, 2010). Thesis advisor: Daniel Feller. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Nachdem Heinrich I. im Jahre 936 verstorben war, wurde an seinem Grab in Quedlinburg ein weltliches Frauenstift gegründet, dessen erste Äbtissinnen Töchter und Schwestern der ottonischen Kaiser waren. Unter diesen wurde es Tradition, das Osterfest wenn möglich am Grab des Vorfahren zu begehen, und auch nachfolgen-de Adelshäuser folgten diesem Brauch. Die mitge-brachten Geschenke bereicherten über die Jahrhunderte den Stiftsschatz und zeugen noch heute von der Bedeutung des Stiftes zu seiner Blütezeit.

Die Entstehung der russischen Medaillenkunst in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts ist eng verbunden mit dem Namen von Zar Peter I., dem die Geschichte den Beinamen „der Große“ verlieh. Über das Interesse des Monarchen an diesem neuen Medium und seinen Produktionstechniken berichten nicht nur zahlreiche private Notizen des Zaren. 1698 gründete Peter I. eine eigene nu-mismatische Sammlung nach westeuropäischem Vorbild, die beispielhaft für zahlreiche private Kollektionen in Russland war. Auch die Förde-rung der nationalen Garde der Medailleure und die Gründung von neuen Münzstätten trugen nachhaltig zur Entwicklung der russischen Me-daillenkunst bei.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Allowing decorative pattern to take flight is a theme that has preoccupied my art practice ever since becoming infected by Deleuze and Guattari’s writing, A Thousand Plateaus:Capitalism and Schizophrenia, while completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Textiles. It is evident as an underlying thread or feeling in my making processes and thinking. According to Deleuze and Guattari (1987), to think new thoughts involves ‘a wrenching of concepts away from their usual configurations, outside the systems in which they have a home and outside the structures of recognition that constrain thought to the already known’ (p276). In this project I have found myself continually challenged by the intent and consequences of ‘shaking things up’, as I believe this quote implies. A wrenching of concepts away from their usual configurations has come through drawing a comparison between the conceptual structure of decorative pattern and the orders and structures of everyday life. What has emerged is a synthesis of ideas which create a picture of the dis/order that is evident within decorative pattern and in everyday life. I have come to conclude that decorative pattern is passive aggressive. It occurs to me that I could have described decorative pattern in a more positive tone in terms of passive resistance. But, in my mind, this implies a heroic gesture of superseding dominant orders. In this project I consciously employ the term ‘passive aggressive’ as an analogy because it acknowledges human flaw as a pattern that is inherent in everyday life. It alludes to the actuality of a relation to order and subsequent disorder that is not heroic, but rather implies humanness and the everyday struggle. While my challenge has been to present a new way of thinking about decorative pattern, underlying this has been a questioning of the structures that define my practice itself. This is evident in the experimental works that I have produced. It has been an evolutionary process that has played out according to a rhythm of shattering and shoring up. I see the resolution of this exploration coming in two parts. One is as the sum of my experimental works and how these artworks inform each other and are read in relation to the text. The other comes through a final installation of work which employs the system for making that has subsequently evolved, moving according to ‘the path of least resistance’.

This exegesis details an investigation into the history and evolution of certain technologies, (binary coding, Platonic cosmology, and the linear perspective system) and the extent to which these technologies have distorted or appropriated our perceptions of reality. Special attention is paid to logical inconsistencies in apparently logical systems. The investigation focuses on the purportedly utopian applications of these technologies and the discrepancies that inevitably occurred whenever these ordered systems confronted the chaotic ‘real’ world. Information gleaned from this research then informs an analysis of methods for incorporating these concepts into the author’s installation practice. An explication of recent drawing practice and its reconciliation with installation work will account for and inform a recounting of practical experimentation dealing with form and materials.