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Dissecting the Visual and Non-Visual Attributes of Glasswork Submitted to an Annual Publication for Fun and Profit

Weinberg, Zachary A
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430952898

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2015, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
We find ourselves in an age where our cultural preferences can be determined and aligned by computer algorithms. The because-you-like-that-you-will-like-this approach has spanned across areas of music with Pandora, movies and TV shows with Netflix, not to mention our intimate relationships with the multitude of online dating sites. In this context, where inspiration can be reduced down to numbers, I began a project examining whether a similar systematic approach could be applied to the field of glass artwork. The New Glass Review is an annual publication in which a jury select 100 submitted images of what they feel represents the best work in glass from the past year. The jury is composed of Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass at the Corning Museum of Glass and three other guest jurors. By taking the New Glass Review as the paramount examples of work in glass, my project began by breaking down every image selected by the jury since 2001 into Excel spreadsheets. Images were deconstructed into 110 categories, ranging from the submitted information of dimensions, artist gender and nationality, to the visual attributes of symmetry, dominant colors, referential imagery, additional materials and photographic setting. With the help of the Statistics Counseling Service at The Ohio State University, I was able to run a series of analyses to determine favorable attributes of glasswork based on my collected data. From these figures I constructed three artworks and submitted them to the 2015 New Glass Review under a pseudonym. Despite adhering to the precise calculations, my submission was unsuccessful. Partially.
Richard Harned (Advisor)
Shane Mecklenburger (Committee Member)
Kris Paulsen (Committee Member)
55 p.
Fine Arts

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  • Weinberg, Z. A. (2015). Dissecting the Visual and Non-Visual Attributes of Glasswork Submitted to an Annual Publication for Fun and Profit [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430952898

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Weinberg, Zachary. Dissecting the Visual and Non-Visual Attributes of Glasswork Submitted to an Annual Publication for Fun and Profit. 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430952898.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Weinberg, Zachary. "Dissecting the Visual and Non-Visual Attributes of Glasswork Submitted to an Annual Publication for Fun and Profit." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430952898

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