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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Art installation"”.
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Improving mental wellbeing on college campuses through participatory art installation
… in the fields of psychology, biology, and art, and combines it with site-specific observational studies of student life on campus. The culmination is the proposal and implementation of a public art installation that uses properties of soil, nature, and customizable components that users can …
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Down Stream [Appalachia]
… Stream [Appalachia] is an immersive, interactive art installation that addresses themes of ecological preservation, conservation, and connectedness—illuminating the precarity of imperiled freshwater species in the Appalachian region. The exhibition is composed of reflective, refractive sculptures …
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Spatial Realization: Understanding Black Cultural Engagement in Context of Space and Whiteness
… white institutional space as approached by the art installation titled Spatial Realization. By establishing a space that invites engagement with Black culture contextualized within a white institution and directly juxtaposed by symbols of racialized oppression, the exhibit challenges its …
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Support Systems
Support Systems is a multimedia art installation that addresses shifting personal boundaries in contemporary America and functions as a dialogue between the external battles we must face and the internal landscape we need to preserve. The artwork questions how we find a balance between protecting …
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Trek : hitchhiking on the ox-wagon of destiny : voortrekker, draadtrekker, saamtrekker
As a South African artist I am in power to influence some manner of change, through my art, to the structure of national thought and hence national identity. Through my live art installation TOTANDERKUNTUlT, I offered South Africans the opportunity to engage in the cathartic process of resolution …
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Suspension of Belief
… Thesis Exhibition Suspension of Belief, an art installation and performance during which the artist created a bedroom-like space and slept in the Gallery of Visual Arts for the three week duration of the exhibition. The statement for the show read: Suspension of Belief explores the line …
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Suspension of Belief
… Thesis Exhibition Suspension of Belief, an art installation and performance during which the artist created a bedroom-like space and slept in the Gallery of Visual Arts for the three week duration of the exhibition. The statement for the show read: Suspension of Belief explores the line …
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The Liminal South : Explorations of Black Time, Space, and Memory
… of two analytical essays and a three-dimensional art exhibition that tangibly extract and display the ways I view the U.S. American south and my interactions with it. Inspired by the narrative photography of Carrie Mae Weems and her “Kitchen Table Series,” the project focuses on multiple …
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Umthonyama
… Umthonyama --cyclical, durational live-art installation, work -- is stylized as a queer 'homily' that rehearses and celebrates a queer genealogy of black Xhosa identity felt and contested at the level of the intimate body. Citing the aesthetics and politics of black artists such as …
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The value of public art in landscape architecture
To design spaces for public art has become an increasingly difficult exercise due to the constant shifts in the public's social behaviour and attitude towards art. This is exacerbated by the fact that the discipline of art is so unique and diverse it is almost impossible to find a commonly …
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Illuminate
… This thesis presents, Illuminate, an interactive art installation in which the movements of a person through open space are visually augmented and brought to life in front of them in real-time through custom interactive visualization software. Seamlessly merging physical and digital space, …
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Past, Present, Future
… Present, Future is an immersive and interactive art installation that seeks to put displaced Congolese and African artwork - commonly displayed in world museums - into their original cultural context. The exhibit's immersive experience sheds light on the colonial exploitation of African peoples …
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Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City
… ever. The following thesis presents my ongoing art project Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City, which asks the question: “How might we use design to spark conversation about the hidden history and potential design of Mandela?”. During Spring 2021, I designed realistic …
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Blending Lifewriting and Technology to Teach Language, Culture & Identity in the ESL Classroom
… This is written (semi) linearly, but is also an art installation in the form of a website called The Human Archive Project (THAP), a Trans-Space, not bound by language, genre, discipline, or identity. On THAP I research my hybrid identity and ask: In what ways did being brought up simultaneously …
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Sanctuary: The-Construction of Communion
… narrates the development of the multimedia art installation called <em>Sanctuary. </em>I unwrap the theoretical background of my practice, which is rooted in the theories of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, and the rhizome theory by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I approach my creative …
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Plastic modes of listening: affordance in constructed sound environments
… listening modes, informs the creation of sound art installation, or more specifically as referred to in this thesis as constructed sound environments. The basis for the thesis has been a practiced based research where the aim and purpose of the written part of this PhD project has been to …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… Aramaic incantation bowls, contemporary ceramic art practice, and critical theory. Scholarly attention surrounding the Aramaic Bowls remains largely confined within the philological disciplines of translation, linguistics and grammar. In contrast, through critical and creative approaches, this …
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Representation and recognition of action in interactive spaces
… theater play; and in "It", an interactive art installation based on the play "It /I" that realizes our concept of immersive stages, that is, interactive spaces that can be used both by performers and public.
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Layered Visions and the Teleorama: Constructing Sites of Ruination through a Contemporary Drawing Practice
… in order to create immersive drawing-based installations that offer new approaches to fine art drawing practice? The Teleoramic viewing experience is theorised through ‘layered vision’, a concept describing how the form is constructed to depict a scene from several viewpoints, or distinct …
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Investigating anthropogenic existential risks through art
Through the creation of an art installation called Local Warming, and by analyzing energy-related art works by other artists, I was able to develop a methodology in my attempt to answer the question of what can be done about anthropogenic threats to humankind. Local Warming is a large array of 72 …
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