Violet Zhang

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Excellent communication skills, including oral, written, editing, and proofreading; demonstrated ability to compose exhibition descriptions, artist biographies, and business correspondence with correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation

Mentor : Professor Robert S. Oventile, Department of English, Pasadena City College

Date : March 2019 - March 2018

Science and Art in Symbiosis: The Relationship of Algorithms and Aesthetics in the Field of Art History

• The paper explores the application of the Stack, a model for planetary scale computation, to art history.
• Thesis: Art and science have a symbiotic relationship. Art expresses aesthetic emotions to portray our world, but science invents realistic solutions to evolve our world. The application of new technology is increasingly blurring the boundaries between art and science.
• Research Conclusion: The gap between science and humanity involves the distinction between algorithmical and analogical approaches to reality. The human emotions artworks solicit signal the approach of reality. Art is the only area where we approach reality, but, with the Stack, computers that do art history will accompany us all the way to the real.

Mentor : Professor Lothar Von Falkenhausen, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Date : Sept 2021—Present

The Relationship of Craft Specialization and Kinship in early China

• Thesis: The establishment of craft specialization occurred when craftsmen created bronze vessels for kinship-based nobility. The craftsmen worked individually in a specific part, but the overall production procedure was standardized, and the final products were high in quality and quantity.
• Current Research reflections: Based on different literary sources about standardization in bronze casting, craft specialization, and craftsmen's relations with the nobility.
• Further Research Goal: The final research project will be to conduct case studies of individual craftsmen through the analysis of bronze artifacts produced through a modular system, to provide an original description of the modular system, and to compare bronze artifacts produced before and after the introduction of evolved modular systems of production.