How do each of these artist relate to the idea of Visual Culture? Did work work of these artist challenge your expectations of the creation and function of art? Give specific examples form the videos.

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Group Discussion: Art and Visual Culture

Assignment Goals:

What is Visual Culture?

Visual Culture is the totality and visual objects produced in the industrial and post industrial nations and the ways those images are disseminated, received, and used. Visual Culture scholars study visual media of all sorts as well as the “centrality of vision and the visual world in producing meanings, [and] establishing and maintaining aesthetic values, gender stereotypes, and power relations within cultures.” -Irit Rogoff, On Visual Culture

We live in an age where we under a constant assault by visual imagery. Images compete with words as our main modes of communication. Don’t believe me? 😳👁🤷🕵️‍♂️🤳🎓Scholars, like Rogoff, maintain that our eager consumption of images fills our lives with virtual experiences that replace real life. These images generate emotions related to pleasure, power, and fantasy.

Visual culture is concerned with spectacle, or a visually striking performance or display. Visual culture is also transitional. In some cases it doesn’t make any sense the source of some art by geography. An artist may be based in New York, have a studio to make work in China, and exhibit their work in Paris. So, is the work American, Chinese, or French? Visual culture is often collaborative. A team of artisans, performers, and engineers may be part of the process in the realization of an artwork.

Instructions:

Part 1: Watch the Videos (You must watch all three)

Nick Cave: Nick Cave Brings Art, Sculpture to Life, 2016. (5:22 Min)

Nick Cave creates “Soundsuits”—surreally majestic objects blending fashion and sculpture—that originated as metaphorical suits of armor in response to the Rodney King beatings and have evolved into vehicles for empowerment. Fully concealing the body, the “Soundsuits” serve as an alien second skin that obscures race, gender, and class, allowing viewers to look without bias towards the wearer’s identity. Cave regularly performs in the sculptures himself, dancing either before the public or for the camera, activating their full potential as costume, musical instrument, and living icon. Cave’s sculptures also include non-figurative assemblages, intricate accumulations of found objects that project out from the wall, and installations enveloping entire rooms.

Tanya Aguiñiga, Borderlands, 2020. (17:25 Min)

The binational artist Tanya Aguiñiga pushes the power of art to transform the United States-Mexico border from a site of trauma to a creative space for personal healing and collective expression. Reflecting the cultural hybridity and community of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the artist discusses her upbringing in Tijuana, her training as a furniture and craft designer, and her artistic beginnings with the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo collective.

Michael ArcegaSPAM/MAPS (Links to an external site.): World (Detail), Spam luncheon meat and pins, 3′ x 4′ x 2″, 2001

Food as a symbolic material that speaks to cultural exchange, in this case as a result of World War II. SPAM, if you aren’t already aware, is a loved/hated canned meat consumed by hungry people all over the world. It’s also “MAPS” spelled backwards. San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega

Links to an external site. used SPAM in MAPS form, showing how the “Diasporic nature is symbolic of America’s ongoing influence on many nations.”

Written Analysis – Essay Format:

(Worth 30 points)

After you watch the videos, in your written analysis, address the art and artists featured in each video in an essay:

  1. How do each of these artist relate to the idea of Visual Culture?
  2. Did work work of these artist challenge your expectations of the creation and function of art? Give specific examples form the videos.
  3. Can you relate to each of their experiences? If not, why do you think that is? Explain your answers.
  4. How does the art made by each of these artists specifically generate emotions related to pleasure, power, and fantasy.
  5. How does the work of Tanya Aguiñiga relate to humanity and nature, the theme of Chapter 13?
  6. How does the work of Micheal Arcega, relate to the term “Visual Culture?”
  7. Where does this art belong? Think about it for a second. You can literally watch this videos almost anywhere in the world with internet access and experience the power, creativity, and grace of the artists. Sure you can put the remnants of their art pieces within the walls of a museum, but is that the best place for it?

Define statistics and how are statistics used in decision-making? Describe frequency distribution and how it can be used in decision-making. Describe Mean, Median, and Mode with examples.

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Excel Question

  1. Define statistics and how are statistics used in decision-making?
  2. Describe frequency distribution and how it can be used in decision-making.
  3. Describe Mean, Median, and Mode with examples.
  4. Describe Skewness and why it is important.

Calculate cost of debt and equity as well as weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Apply the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). Develop a capital budget.

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STEP #4 ONLY!

Utilize the attached “Excel” template. Outside resources are not allowed, and Citations are not required (use suggested resources in reading). Projects 1-4 worksheets will be uploaded for calculation/comparison purposes if needed.

Scenario

Your team’s work with Largo Global Inc. (LGI) is nearly complete. In your consulting role, you have recommended steps for improving the company’s financial health. You have offered advice on a revenue target, recommended steps for optimizing operations, and suggested investments that will improve LGI’s competitive position. In your final project, you will continue working on capital budgeting with a focus on the best way for LGI to finance the investments you recommend.

Your Project 5 business report will focus on ensuring LGI’s capital structure is sound and that the company is on a financially sustainable path. You will recommend a plan for financing investments that does not expose LGI to unnecessary risk. By the end of this project, the company’s financial statements should demonstrate that it has returned to a competitive position.

Step 4: Complete the Analysis Calculation for Project 5

Your team has provided you with an Excel workbook containing LGI’s financials. You will use the Project 5 Excel workbook to perform advanced capital budgeting techniques to assess the viability of the investment you made in the previous project.

Complete the analysis calculation for the project:

  • Download the Project 5 Excel Workbook, click the Instructions tab, and read the instructions.
  • Calculate cost of debt and equity as well as weighted average cost of capital (WACC).
  • Apply the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
  • Develop a capital budget.

Explain the relationship between the methodology used and the research question that was asked in each study. Include each research question and the methodology of each study (quantitative or qualitative).

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Human Trafficking

In this journal assignment, think about each of the research articles you found in the Project Prep assignment in Module One. You will later add to this research for Milestone Two. Why do you think the researchers in each of your articles decided to use the methodology they chose? What about each research question might imply that this methodology is best? Note that you have researched on the same research topic that represents both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, so when assessing each study, you may wish to consider the effectiveness of the opposite methodology. For example, if you have a quantitative research study, you may want to consider how the study could have benefitted from qualitative research. Complete each step for both studies.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Relationship Between Methodology and Question:
Explain the relationship between the methodology used and the research question that was asked in each study. Include each research question and the methodology of each study (quantitative or qualitative).
Evaluation of Methodology Selection: Evaluate how successful each methodology choice was answering the research question asked.

Based on the video, describe what have you learned about Asahi DC in Australia in terms of: a. How an ASRS operates. b. The benefits of Asahi’s ASRS. c. The challenges of an ASRS.

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Video Review – Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (ASRS)

Watch the video: Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (ASRS)

Links to an external site.

Copy the following questions on a MS-Word document, answer them, save the file in PDF format and upload it:

Based on the video, describe what have you learned about Asahi DC in Australia in terms of:

  • a. How an ASRS operates.
  • b. The benefits of Asahi’s ASRS.
  • c. The challenges of an ASRS.

It is highly recommended that you perform additional online research about ASRS in order to enhance your answers to the questions above. List your additional references used.

Would you classify this procedure as the use of health information technology (HIT) and why? What were its advantages and disadvantages of this doctor’s visit?

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Week 1 Discussion- IFSM 305 7381

During the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the patients were not able to make in-person visits to the healthcare providers, only virtual consultation through some remote communication technology. Assume you contacted your provider during this period. Describe the scheduling procedure and visit setting you would have followed and the experience of such a visit. Would you classify this procedure as the use of health information technology (HIT) and why? What were its advantages and disadvantages of this doctor’s visit?

Identify effective strategies for conducting a face-to-face, telephone, or video-conferencing interview. Identify effective strategies for constructing and administering a questionnaire and for analyzing people’s responses to it.

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Descriptive Research Designs

1 Describe general characteristics and purposes of (a) observation studies, (b) correlational research, (c) developmental designs, and (d) survey research. Also, describe effective strategies you might use in each of these four research methodologies.

2 Identify effective strategies for conducting a face-to-face, telephone, or video-conferencing interview.

3 Identify effective strategies for constructing and administering a questionnaire and for analyzing people’s responses to it.

4 Explain possible uses of checklists, rating scales, rubrics, computer software, and the Internet in data collection.

5 Determine an appropriate sample for a descriptive study.

6 Describe common sources of bias in descriptive research, as well as strategies for minimizing the influences of such biases.

Identify strategies for choosing and refining a research problem. Subdivide a main research problem into useful sub problems. Recognize examples of independent, dependent, mediating, and moderating variables.

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The Heart of the Research Process

1 Identify strategies for choosing and refining a research problem.

2 Subdivide a main research problem into useful sub problems.

3 Recognize examples of independent, dependent, mediating, and moderating variables.

4 Pin down a proposed research study by (a) stating one or more hypotheses, (b) identifying variables to be examined, (c) defining terms, (d) stating assumptions, (e) identifying delimitations and limitations, and (f) explaining the study’s importance.

Distinguish between (a) common uses of the term research that reflect misconceptions about what research involves and (b) the true nature of research in academic settings.

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The Nature and Tools of Research

1 Distinguish between (a) common uses of the term research that reflect misconceptions about what research involves and (b) the true nature of research in academic settings.

2 Describe the cyclical, iterative nature of research, including the steps that a genuine research project involves.

3 Distinguish among positivism, postpositivism, constructivism, and pragmatism/realism as philosophical underpinnings of a research project.

4 Identify examples of how six general research tools can play significant roles in a research project:

  • (a) the library and its resources,
  • (b) computer technology,
  • (c) measurement,
  • (d) statistics,
  • (e) language,
  • (f) the human mind.

5 Describe steps you might take to explore research in your field.

Draft a 5- to 7-page essay (excluding the bibliography) on that topic, using a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed sources in addition to any of the readings for class you may choose to use.

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African Studies Question

Draft a 5- to 7-page essay (excluding the bibliography) on that topic, using a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed sources in addition to any of the readings for class you may choose to use.