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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Contemporary art practice"”.
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An Examination of the Place of Fresco in Contemporary Art Practice
This dissertation is the outcome of a practice-based research inquiry into innovations in processes and materials leading to a contemporary fresco. The research is in three parts: 1) the textual establishment of a historical framework for fresco; 2) an exhibition, Channelling Time, at the Lethaby …
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A veiling of identity : anamorphosis as double vision in contemporary art practice
… trope of anamorphosis as a formal dimension of art practice and as a critical tool for exploring subjective vision. Anamorphosis is a technique of perspective that produces a distorted image that may only be corrected and made coherent when viewed from a specific angle. In order to re-form an …
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Trace and history: an investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice.
… investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice. This practice-led research project considers the culture of banner-making in Iraqi Kurdistan. The research is trans-disciplinary in character, combining artistic, historical, and sociological research. The calligraphers’ …
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AFTERIMAGES: Photographs as an External Autobiographical Memory System and a Contemporary Art Practice
… our concepts of the past, memory and time. My starting point is a collection of photographs taken by my grandfather, Albert Edward Ingham, which is used both in my studio work and as a basis for my theoretical writing. My concerns as an artist are with the ways in which familiar photographs and …
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Gossip pop: A performative investigation of the role of pop in contemporary art practice
… manner that is productive for and applicable to contemporary art theory and practice. The research will be presented as a final survey or diachronic exhibition that will demonstrate the development of the series of Gossip Pop performances and exhibitions, together with a written exegesis. The …
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Choking on the madeleine: encounters and alternative approaches to memory in a contemporary art practice
This practice-based thesis proposes radical, critical, creative reconsiderations of memory and how the mnemic may be expressed in art practice. The research took place through developing a series of works within contemporary installation art practice, which considers the experience of memory an …
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An Investigation of Holographic Technologies Applied to Contemporary Art Practice A new approach to temporal aesthetics
The works of contemporary art using audio, 35mm slide, video, film and computer- based technologies are commonly referred to as time-based media, since they have duration as a dimension. By looking at artworks which are classified in this category, it appears that temporal visual perceptual …
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The Legacy of the Burkean Sublime: Representations of British Spaces and Landscapes in a Contemporary Art Practice
… the Enquiry from the perspective of an artist using an autoethnographic approach to ask the question, to what extent can Burke’s aesthetic philosophy be used as an applied methodology in the production of paintings, and drawings, which reflect on contemporary spaces, places, and …
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The address of spirituality in contemporary art
… themes and the notion of self-design in contemporary art practice. It argues that art today that addresses religion does so primarily for its rhetorical function: for a recognizable pattern of persuasiveness, which is ultimately defined by its established mechanisms of belief. …
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Revisiting the future
… then examined in relation to the senses and to contemporary art practice. I present ideas on how images for the various senses can operate both individually and collectively to create interactive, multi-sensory communication surfaces. The works I produced are my response to the challenges posed …
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Hybrids, mimics, colonies and collections : a cross-disciplinary art practice research process
This PhD submission primarily consists of my fine art practice as research published and disseminated in a range of exhibition sites and interventions. Full textual and visual documentation is accompanied bya critical, contextual commentary. This research and its manifestations not only test and …
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Display, interpellation and interpretation: on the development of an artistic gossip practice, in the context of audience interactivity with Nottingham's lace heritage
… thesis raises concerns about current heritage practice regarding notions of inclusivity, the agency of audiences and the authority of heritage institutions, such as museums. Experts including Tony Bennet (1998), Graham Black (2005), and Eileen Hooper-Greenhill (1994) claim that recent …
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Natural and digital virtual realities: A practice-based exploration of dreaming and online virtual environments
… within the context of the researcher's own fine art practice. An outline of the development of a series of creative works is accompanied by an analytical and descriptive text. Together, both practice and text confront and explore existing paradigms of imagination, in particular dream experiences …
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Queer Migrations
… of both queers and migrants into the realm of contemporary art practice. It focuses on four major projects that I had exhibited over a ten-year period starting in 2004 and attempts to devise a theoretical link between these works. It is my intention through the commentary to create a coherent …
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Re-constructing Babel: The history and creative possibilities of a myth, explored through text and installation
This thesis and related artwork examines the layers of meaning around the Tower of Babel and how the myth can be visually represented today. This thesis attempts to give new readings to the myth drawing on history, literature, philosophy and architectural writings while using multi-media visual …
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Visualising Human Migrations in Cape Town The story of three ships through ‘time’, ‘space’ and ‘memory’
This practice-led PhD contributes to an understanding of contemporary art practice as a tool to render visible and unravel capitalist imaginaries within the field of migration studies. Focusing on the theme of contemporary and historical migrations at Cape Town through research conducted on three …
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Picturing the child: from photographic images to painting
… a wide range of references derived from post war art history and popular culture. It reengages with some of the stylistics tropes of Pop but very much after the theorising of the image which occurred in the last ten or fifteen years as part of the wider debate around representation. In this …
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You And I
<p>Artist statement Nao Yamamoto The environment I grew up in allowed me to cultivate an appreciation for both contemporary art and traditional craft, and I still respect the Japanese culture. However, experiencing contemporary art based on a different society and environment changed my perspective …
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Anticipated retrospection: manifesting pastness in moving image, an art practice enquiry
… in moving image from the perspective of artists’ film and video and asks: "if material qualities are implicated in memory as pastness, how can this be made apperceptible using art practice?” The study contributes to the understanding of temporal and material experience in contemporary art …
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