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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"Curating"”.
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Shadow curating: a critical portfolio
"Muitos, como dizia Artaud, referindo-se oos cr?ticos, "gostariam que a nossa aprendizagem fosse feita entre quarto paredes, fechada no laborat?rios", mas nos fazemos cena aberta, cara a cara com o publico. ""Many, as Artsud used to say, referring to the critics, "would like our learning to take …
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Curating <i>The Eternal Network </i>After Globalisation
… art practice after the Net and vice versa. Curating only the second edition of The Art-of-Peace Biennale becomes the primary output of the research. Filliou conceived of the Biennale in 1970, proposed it in 1982 and René Block organised the first edition at the Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, …
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Methods metadata: curating scientific research data for reuse
The sharing and reuse of research data relies on the provision of metadata and documentation. At present, scientists are not prepared to invest in the kind of rich description that will offer high functionality and interoperability in large-scale networked data systems. The absence of metadata not …
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The Textile Archive: curating personal histories and family narratives
Textiles are a ubiquitous facet of global culture, with the potential to become records of significant relationships, events, and stories over their lifetime. This research project investigates textiles which have been informally gathered together, and kept within the home, for their emotional or …
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Curating Arts on the Edge of an Unstable Society
The curatorial practice and research of Project 7½ in Korea and Indonesia, from 2014 to 2019, aimed to consider the value of art in humanistic and existential terms, with the exhibitions and events seeking to positively impact the lives of local communities. In this respect, the commentary reflects …
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Curating Across Interfaces: an Account of a (Hybrid) Expanding Exhibition
… run since 2011. In this thesis, the practice of curating is taken to be the operation of 'inscribing' a program of actions (i.e.a script) into the design of interfaces; 'prescribing' these actions to the users of these interfaces; and 'describing' how users actually use the interface. My research …
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Acts of imagination: curating the early Elizabethan repertories, 1582–1594
"""Acts of Imagination"" examines playing companies as the locus for the production of Renaissance drama. To date, narratives of Elizabethan theatre history tend to be playwright- and Shakespeare-centered; in response, I explore the companies operating during the under-examined dozen years of …
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Curating the Dead: Bodies and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials
This thesis examines the relations between bodies and objects in early Mycenaean burials, between 1700 and 1400 BCE on mainland Greece. It adopts an artistic approach to these burials, which treats the burial context as an intentional representation, centred around the creative actions of selection …
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Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: a participative inquiry that seeks to create change through generating artful representations and curating new ideas using ‘Bridging, Making and Curating’
… necessary. This approach is Bridging, Making and Curating. The Bridging is about creating engagement and social connections; the Making asks people to build artefacts that respond to an inquiry question; and the Curating develops means of displaying the artefacts so they can be understood and …
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Curating Adjacent Shores: A Contemporary Art Exhibition at USF's Thacher Gallery
<p>This capstone is a project management plan for the curation of a real-world contemporary art exhibition at the University of San Francisco’s Mary and Carter Thacher Gallery. <em>Adjacent Shores: Hughen Starkweather</em> was on view from March 7 through April 24 of 2016, and featured an …
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Curating and summarising data from animal research on neurodevelopment at scale
Neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) are a heterogeneous group of lifelong disabilities affecting brain development. While many NDCs arise from a complex combination of genetic and environmental factors, some NDCs are monogenic; animals with targeted alterations in homologous genes can be used as …
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Curating the object: Art collection and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain
This dissertation explores influential art critics, poets and novelists who—contra Oscar Wilde’s famous claim that “all art is quite useless”—affirmed the “use” of art to human care and cultivation. By turning art and other artifacts into things to be acquired and arranged, mid-Victorian collectors …
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Re-curating the city : accessories for a new tourism of New York
This thesis poses a challenge to normal modes of experiencing and representing the spaces of tourism: that is to say, it proposes new ways of touring space. Although this project was initially conceived as a critique of tourism from a social and political standpoint, the project increasingly turned …
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Curating the composer : preserving and interpreting our musical heritage through composer house museums.
Although historic house museums, especially those in which political or community leaders once lived, are quite common and have been analyzed by museum scholars, the sub-genre of historic houses in which European classical composers lived has not been explored in as great a depth. The purpose of …
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Curating history: Roman approaches to the material past, c. 100 BC - AD 200
This thesis explores how the Romans constructed their past and what it looked like by using its material remains in the period from the first century BC to the second century AD. Using a combination of texts, objects, and images, I explore themes relevant to the modern fields of heritage studies …
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Curating Connection: How Millennial Women Navigate Self-Presentation, Intimacy, and Rejection in Online Dating
This thesis examines how millennial women navigate self-presentation, intimacy, and rejection in online dating. Grounded in social penetration theory and the hyperpersonal model, it explores the tension between authenticity and desirability in profile curation, the transition from superficial to …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… examines the implications of and strategies for curating exhibitions that feature the works of women of color (WoC) artists. In this study the researcher explores the ways in which viewers interpret exhibitions by the non-profit arts organization, WoCA Projects, an alternative curatorial …
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