The SAIC Thesis Repository is a digital archive of recent, print theses produced by the students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in November 2013, new theses are digitized as they are received by the library. Works in this repository can be read online from any location on the SAIC campus. Theses cannot be printed or copied from this repository, nor can texts be read off campus. (Only descriptive information and abstracts are available for browsing by outside visitors.) Archival paper copies of theses are kept in the SAIC/AIC libraries.
Here you will find: the residue, the proof, the gossip, the bookends of process, the negative space. This is a mile marker, a handbook, an assertion of mass, a redistribution of authorship and ownersh... Read more
Chicago, typical of northern post-industrial cities in the United States, plays host to a vast number of vacant properties. Traditional methods of site identification, involving the combing of tax, pe... Read more
This thesis is a work of fiction, which has been my major project during my time at SAIC. What I have completed is the beginning of a novel which focuses on a long-distance runner attempting to break... Read more
Ronald Reagan's inability to distinguish actuality from fiction is reflective of a global phenomenon of media politics. This is alternative facts and sensationalized news. The work addresses how... Read more
In this thesis, I contextualize the Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen's action and image making from the early 1980s onwards, while considering broader sociocultural issues of labor, work, producti... Read more
Degree
Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History
This thesis considers the work of artist Sammy Baloji in relation to recent trends in scholarship on the concept of an African photographic archive. In his Me moire series (2006), Baloji superimposes... Read more
I analyze three major 20th and 21st century border walls and explore both anonymous graffiti and works by known artists who have left their mark on these structures. Both registers of engagement revea... Read more
This study and research investigates if an activity-based mentoring practice can encourage, motivate and assist our youth to succeed educationally and socially within their school. It is well known th... Read more
These notes address my experiences leading up to and directing a narrative feature about artifice and relationships, called Acts of Love. The film's protagonists agreed to act out fictionalized v... Read more
This thesis is an analysis of the adaptive capacity of contemporary non-profit arts and cultural organizations. I will consider three organizations as case studies to animate this analysis: Hyde Park... Read more
