Kristina Schlosser presents a section from her thesis on new media and the expanding role of the internet for the 2010 MA orals. She focuses on contemporary video artists Natalie Bookchin and examines her work, "Mass Ornament," and the implications of the individual worker/dancer silently...

Melanie Ross explores how Paul Morrissey's film "Flesh," used the visual vocabulary of Andy Warhol to advocate for conservative morals and foreshadowed a shifting attitude of public values. Morrissey changed Warholʼs filmmaking techniques from a self-reflexive avant-guard mode to a commercial...

MA candidate Melanie Ross presents her paper on Alice Neel for the Hawaii International Conference of the Humanities. Born in 1900, Neel struggled against social norms as a female painter in a male dominated career. Exploring her paintings of couples from the '60s and '70s, Neel captures the...