Presentations: April 23

1. Alfredo: You had a lot of information about your topic, it was organized well. You did a very good job explaining the mural. I think you have a lot of information that you can use for your paper, but I think you have to maybe narrow your topic more and be careful to not to lose your thesis with all the information, because there is a lot about this topic.

2. Audrey: I like your focus: Renaissance paintings and Chinese Jade sculptures. And I really like the visuality vs. materialism topic. You have a lot of things to work with and a lot of information relating to this. I think you will have a very good paper.

3. Michelle: I like your topic a lot. You talk about how obsession with consumerism and original art (hion-ga, hiropon, etc...) with two types of art, models and superflat. Maybe one more thing you can look at is how everything is related to the two different arts, and the difference these different types of arts have in relation to those topics.

4. Kevin: You have a good progression from the terror of machines being separated from humans to mutual imput. This is a very interesting topic, and I liked the piece of the malfunctioning pager the best. Maybe you can try to talk about these machines in terms of "what is art" as well. That could be interesting way to look at these art pieces.

5. Amanda: You have a good thesis that gives you a lot of things to work with when writing your paper. I really liked that quote "it is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else." This seems like a very difficult topic to write about, very challenging, but I think it's worth it in the end.