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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Creative Arts and Design not elsewhere classified"”.
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Doubling in a practice of animation
This is a practice based Ph.D. in Fine Arts. The subject of the research deals with strategies of doubling as a means to explore the relation between what technology promises and the fantasy of the viewer/user. The visual material that constitutes my research attempts to raise, in various …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… the uneven distribution of power between and of the black/white female dichotomy and, while using them as a strategic tool within the visual work, questions the implications of skin colour in constructions of femininity within visual representations. Historically as a marker of skin …
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RE/placing public art: the role of place specificity in new genre public art
… research is an exploration of the development and influence of placespecificity within the field of new genre public art. Over the last several years the term place-specificity and its variance, place-specific has occurred frequently in art reviews and exhibition catalogues particularly in …
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Interactive olfactory surfaces: The Wellness Collection: a science fashion story
… for releasing fragrances in 21st century fashion design. A new development, taking inspiration from biology, conjures up Multi-Sensorial Fabrics - based around the sense of smell. Using the theory that 'Smell Is Nanotechnology' and that biology works by nano-machines, biological actions can be …
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The notion of 'we': Articulating ethical moments in art
… speaking, this research involves a philosophical and socio-political investigation of creative force entailed in the realm of art. It focuses on how to assess the elusive aspect of power that is engaged with the notion of `we'; and explores what the notion contributes to art-making. The written …
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Nibbling at clouds: the visual artist encounters adventitious blindness
… recent years to a point where my visual acuity stands at a tenth of normal vision, and as a consequence I am registered blind. The condition and art practices are in many ways inseparable, as behavioural changes in response to the deterioration of vision are largely unavoidable due to powerful …
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Utterance and Authorship in Dialogic Art: or An Account of a Barcamp in Response to the Question, ‘What is Dialogic Art?’
… account, with reference to its dissemination elsewhere made frequently. The event ‘documented’ here is a ‘barcamp’, a kind of ‘unconference’ that combines presentations with responsive discussion. This barcamp brings together practitioners of art, activism, education, philosophy, sociology, …
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Decoration: Disrupting the Workplace and Challenging the Work of Art
… can be deployed as a lens for the illumination and interrogation of class and hierarchy when used in artworks which address the workplace. Photographic topologies conducted for the research highlight hierarchical values exemplified in the workplace; they are revealed as alienating places where, …
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A design-led investigation at the intersection of algal biotechnology and design
This doctoral design-based research, done in collaboration with algal scientists at Imperial College London and completed in 2016, led to the development of Algae Printing, a novel method for depositing and growing cyanobacteria and microalgae on solid surfaces. With its strong emphasis on …
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‘Post Traumatic Web Disorder’: Navigating the Relationship between Humorous Representation of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Digital Spaces
… representations of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the internet, focusing on how the subject of CSA is reformed and resituated in humorous ways through digital spaces. Through examples that range from humorous internet characters representing paedophilia to ‘harrowing online firstperson essays’ …
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Values-Based Cartooning: Mothers Storying the Absent Father (A Case Study)
… considers research undertaken between 2012 and 2018 which critically examined graphic facilitation as part of a cartooning practice, and developed the new mode of Values-Based Cartooning. I assumed the role of researcher-cartoonist, and experimented within a case study in order to access and …
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Walking Home: The path as transect in an 800km autoethnographic enquiry
This practice-based project articulates the notion of an autoethnographic transect using Walking Home, a particular journey that I made in 2009, as its foundation. Borrowing key terms from the fields of ethnography and ecology, the project articulates a new contribution to knowledge by expanding …
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Drawing on the nature of empathy
… Empathy, ‘putting oneself in the shoes of another’was examined critically through drawing as practice, conducted within the hospital environment. This research coincided with a period of major change for the hospital Trust, which had low staff and patient satisfaction and poor financial …
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Sketchbooks – A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Sketchbooks by Contemporary Artists
… research project aims to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of what role sketchbooks play in the creative practice of contemporary artists, and what their shared and individual sketchbook methods are. A comparative analysis of thirteen contemporary artists’ sketchbook practices is …
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Art and counter-publics in Third Way cultural policy
… policy converged with priorities for economic and social policy, in policies implemented by Arts Council England, in the commissioning of publicly funded visual art and within culture-led regeneration. Hence visual art production was further instrumentalized for the purposes of marketization …
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Drifting in the Dead Zone in Cyprus: the mediation of memory through expanded life writing
… in Cyprus, was divided by a ‘green line’ in 1964 and remains the last divided capital city in Europe. This thesis deploys poesis and performance to interrogate the border as a site of reminiscence at the intersection of multiple and contested collective memory-narratives. In order to explore the …
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The disappearing frame: a practice-based investigation into composing virtual environment artworks
Through creative art making practice, research seeks to contribute a body of knowledge to an under researched area by examining how key concepts germane to computer based, interactive, three-dimensional, virtual environment artworks might be explicated, potential compositional issues characterised, …
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The Infrastructure of the Animation Industry in the East of England between 2009 & 2011
… infrastructural requirements in the East of England. This thesis is designed to develop a potential model based on robust and methodologically sound research, that can better quantify animation and related activities from a regional perspective. It is not intended that this thesis will offer a …
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The Rendered Arena: Modalities of Space in Video and Computer Games
During the last 30 years computer and videogames have grown into a large entertainment industry of economic as well as cultural and social importance. As a distinctive field of academic inquiry begins to evolve in the form of Game Studies, the majority of approaches can be identified as emerging …
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