UC Davis art history graduate student Alexandra Rea-Baum offers a new view on American artist John Sloan through the analysis of his non-objectifying gaze seen in "The Cot," a painting included in the Ash Can's exhibit at the MacBeth Gallery, NYC, in 1907.

Kristina Schlosser presents a section from her thesis on new media and the expanding role of the internet for the 2010 MA orals. She focuses on contemporary video artists Natalie Bookchin and examines her work, "Mass Ornament," and the implications of the individual worker/dancer silently connected by the Internet.

Melanie Ross explores how Paul Morrissey's film "Flesh," used the visual vocabulary of Andy Warhol to advocate for conservative morals and foreshadowed a shifting attitude of public values. Morrissey changed Warholʼs filmmaking techniques from a self-reflexive avant-guard mode to a commercial approach. The film was released in

1968, the cataclysmic year of the counterculture rebellion.