The goal of our project was to research ways that we could effectively educate the public on environmental concerns through art. We brainstormed different final products demonstrating the techniques that we learned from our research. Our final art deliverable was create...

All too often, the Vietnam War is studied in terms of the past, but I take stock of this calamitous neo-imperialist moment in time as the point of departure for studying Vietnamization of the future. If the contents and arguments of this book bear too ...

This catalog was publish on the occasion of an exhibition at Art Space 1616, Sacramento California. February 8-29, 2020.

This essay examines the notion of the real as it pertains to images, experiences, and the paintings that result from them. I advocate for a way of painting that I refer to as indexical and I surmise that painted moments derived by way of indexical marks subvert the pola...

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on an image. The field has seen significant advances recently, with systems achieving high accuracy even on open-ended questions. However, a number of recent studies have shown that many of these a...

The artwork described in this thesis suggests that we consider every sensory experience an active tuning of our senses and ourselves in relation to each other and the world. Through a series of interactive sound and light installations composed of microphones, audio cab...

Deep contestations of essentialized identity categories are a contemporary reality for communities for whom cultural patrimony of land and water resources play a crucial role. Yet, archaeology has not been able to adequately recognize the dynamics of the changing nature...

This dissertation examines major military displays in interwar Britain. Military displays include military parades, tattoos, air shows, reviews, pageants, navy weeks, and other derivations. I use evidence from archives, newspapers, and published sources to analyze their...

ABSTRACT OF THE THESISOrigin[Redux]Photography as a Mechanism of Dream TransferenceByJoaquín PaltingMaster of Fine Arts in Studio ArtUniversity of California, Irvine, 2020Professor Simon Leung, Chair What is it that I am doing when I take a photograph? What are the impl...

Grounding natural language onto real-world perception is a fundamental challenge to empower various practical applications that require human-machine communication.This Ph.D. dissertation presents our research thrusts on developing intelligent embodied agents that conne...