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Item Advancing lighting for aquaria(2014-05) Wittke-Bender, Dawn Marie; Habeck, Michelle M.In this thesis I will explore the creation of a professionally advanced aquatic lighting fixture that will offer more flexibility than is currently available in the professional aquatic lighting field. I will investigate how the flexible fixture can enhance aquatic microenvironments through application of a design approach. In this investigation I will focus on the visual composition of light within the aquarium, while providing physiologically supportive light to the living inhabitants of the microenvironment. In order to explore this process I will create a LED aquatic lighting unit that shares many of the properties of a traditional theatrical lighting grid; specifically: flexible positioning, focusability of light sources, color control, and intensity control. I will design and build this flexible unit, and demonstrate its capabilities on a minimum of three contrasting aquatic microenvironments. The project will be displayed in an exhibit within the Winship Theatre building, where the human viewing environment will be designed to provide a soothing light and sound enhanced experience.Item Blackout : bringing lighting design and technology awareness to Black youth and under supported communities(2021-05-05) Whatley, Amber Sharaine; Bloodgood, WilliamThe need for more Black lighting designers is not foreign information to the Live Design field. Most BIPOC youth and young adults aren’t even aware that the lighting design field is a career option. This must be taught at the secondary education level so that these students have that knowledge of the lighting design field when choosing higher education or joining the workforce. The purpose of Blackout is to bring awareness of lighting design and technology to Black youth and communities with no theater education, who would not otherwise have the knowledge of lighting design or technology. Through my thesis, I have created a video series to teach a general introduction of lighting design and technology. The information was presented in classrooms for students to watch and gain awareness of the lighting design field. The videos were accessible to youth ages 10-17. Through a final anonymous questionnaire, I examined the significance of the workshop videos being taught by a Black lighting designer and centered around Black students and communities with no theater education programs. My goal was to lend awareness of the lighting design field, show the youth in those schools that lighting design and technology are possible career paths, and hopefully diversify the future lighting design and technology fields.Item Elvis Machine : the making of a machine(2012-05) Doyle, Rowan Michaela; Isackes, Richard M.; Mickey, Susan EThis thesis explores the creation of Elvis Machine, a production that was created by The Duplicates Theater Company and premiered at the 2012 Fusebox festival in Austin, Texas. This paper examines the company’s history, process and work in relation to this production.Item Erasure(2019-05-06) Curry, Aaron Marshall Neihana; Habeck, Michelle M.In the visual and performing arts, light is widely applied as a tool with which artists and designers illuminate and modify space. Utilizing various techniques and qualities such as color and angle, and various lighting fixtures, lighting designers are able to influence how an audience perceives space to the benefit of the story being told. In Erasure, I aim to explore how lighting technology, color, and human eyesight interact in an attempt to alter a spectator’s perception of space. This thesis primarily focuses on how progressions through various wavelengths of visible light reflected in a constructed white room affect the perception of the space’s depth and the confines established by its boundaries. I also explore how successful varying wavelengths (colors) of light are in the erasing of line and edge, creating within the white room a seemingly vast expanse of color. In this investigation, I explore the process of researching color, light, and human vision, the construction and design of the performance space, and the resulting impact colored light has on spatial perception and what must be considered when attempting to apply a similar concept to larger live performancesItem Lumen Air : “the day I started an airline”(2016-06-27) Carson, Andrew Michael; Habeck, Michelle M.; Cloyes, RustyThis project developed a custom programmable interior aviation lighting system prototype to better acclimate the body clock of passengers traveling on eight-hour plus flights to the time zone of their destination, thereby providing a more pleasant and peaceful journey. To achieve this end, I employed the use of lighting cues, which were carefully constructed visual looks that employ color, duration and intensity. This manipulation of lighting cues was constructed to the natural ebb and flow of flight-related events. This project was presented as 8-hour and 3-hour durational performances in two partial sections of a full-scale mockup. The first section was a hyper realistic mockup that more accurately represented an aircraft cabin, including details such as overhead bins and reading lights, with full cabin service. Each of the flights was accompanied by a surround sound soundscape from takeoff to landing with full cabin service including five-course meals, wine, champagne, and beer to provide an air of authenticity. This section represented “real time” passage of time for an approximately eight-hour flight from Austin, Texas to Frankfurt, Germany. The second section was a simplified version of the main mockup, also in full scale. This mockup was designed to provide a lighting system using time-lapsed acceleration to accomplish the same flight in approximately 18 minutes as a concept demonstration with accompanying video.Item Seeing the music, hearing the drama : a multimedia suite (six pieces) for instrument(s) and electronics(2018-05-01) He, Yuanyuan, 1985-; Pinkston, Russell; Welcher, Dan; Sharlat, Yevgeniy; Almén, Byron; Bays, BenjaminSeeing the Music, Hearing the Dream is a forty-five minute multimedia suite consisting of six pieces written for various instruments and electronics, which consist of electronic sounds and video. The instrumentation includes solo cello, solo flute, solo piano, solo marimba, and flute and trombone duet. This suite is a compilation of multimedia works, all of which feature the connection and interaction between live instruments, electronic music, and visual art. The first chapter of this dissertation discusses the background and development of the multimedia performing arts field, as well as three different artists/groups and their works. The second chapter is a piece-by-piece analysis of the multimedia suite, complete with explanations of major motives, harmonic language, formal structure, and configuration of and relationships between audio and visual elements of the pieces.Item Wing it(2016-05) Sung, Po-Yang; Habeck, Michelle M.; Isackes, RichardThe purpose of this thesis is to explore the design of an airport wing in Taipei, Taiwan to provide a space in which services are provided to a variety of people from a global community. The terminal will service international travel and will consist of eight gates, twelve check in counters and four luggage claims designed for the Taiwanese airline carrier China Airlines.