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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Environmental art"”.
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Cultivating Earthworks of the Anthropocene: A Laboratory for Land and Environmental Art in Lime, Oregon
… and engineered geology of modern society. These earthworks have the potential to reveal the implicit polarity between the accelerated growth of the Anthropocene and the native growth of the landscape they occupy. By addressing landscape through the frame of earthworks, this thesis seeks to …
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Ecology and environmental art in public place: talking tree: won't you take a minute and listen to the plight of nature?
My research started with a question: Is it possible to create change if we understand life is interdependent and interrelated with nature in our environment? I researched this question from the perspective of a practising artist in the field of environmental art in the context of ecology. I chose …
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How can art change the meaning of the city? : an examination of an installation in a public setting, Compton Court, M.I.T.
… planning, architecture, design and the fine arts. Although each discipline has approached the urban environment with a given set of assumptions based on its own history, a larger question has seemed to emerge: how can we make our cities more habitable, more social, more meaningful? Artists …
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Speed of the Earth : illusion and experience of speed and scale
The Speed of the Earth is a proposed sculpture dealing with light as pure experience within the context of short-lived rapid movement and large scale horizontal orientation within the environment. This will be accomplished through the use of rapidly sequenced strobe lights sited in a straight …
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Landscape morphology : a comparative study of landscape aesthetics.
… paint and design. This is an issue of art philosophy and design methodology. To link theory with practice, the relationship between landscape - both painted and designed - and aesthetic thinking is the most important topic discussed throughout the writing. To achieve a relatively …
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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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On the Horizon: Toward a Revisioning of Environmentally-Engaged Arts Practices
… thesis explores the intersecting themes of art and environmental crisis. It attempts to underscore the imbalances of power and agency throughout both the human and non-human worlds, which have driven the phenomenon that has been termed the Anthropocene. I begin with a consideration of the …
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Monet at the Savoy Hotel and the London fogs 1899-1901
… weather and climate and how they are portrayed artistically. The representations of skies, atmosphere, weather, climate and climate change through a variety of artistic media have been considered thus far (Eliasson 2003; Olson et al 2004, Kunz et al 2005; Thornes 1999, 2008a, 2008b). …
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An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation, Using a Sculptural Methodology
… in the critique of sculpture, have provided a starting point to articulate what is implied or “mapped out but not socially recognized”1 by the structure of specialist categories. The practice-based work that has driven this project, documents an extension of sculptural fabrication, which …
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Photography and the Extractive Gaze: Visual culture and natural resource extraction on the Canadian Shield, 1900-1930
… to envision new futures, where commerce and art would come together to drive economic and industrial development. These archival photographs formed a site of knowledge production that shaped how people in the early 20th century understood industrial development. I situate contemporary …
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Environmental video : personal forms for television's public context
… current running into our homes. In developing an artistic statement in the video medium, the artist must take this precedent for television's usage as a context against which to model his or her expression. In my work, as documented by this thesis, I address the need to discover personal forms for …
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Optical performance
The initial exploration of environmental art involved a study of light and color, which led to an examination of environmental performance and scenic projection techniques. Eventually, the thesis research resulted in the development of an environmental performance that integrates projected light, …
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The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency
… examines South Korean performance and conceptual art from 1961 to 1993 during the Cold War military dictatorship, and focuses on the dynamics of socio-political tension between the military dictatorship and the opposition of political dissidents comprised mostly of artists, students, and …
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Confronting gold mine acid drainage : art as counter-activity
Environmental art: Art relating to the individual’s response, understanding and interest towards the land, including art forms such as Land/Earth art as well as more sensitive art forms such as Eco-art, focussed more on the earth’s natural processes. Exploitation: The exploitation of mineral …
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AMD&ART: performativity and participation in ecological remediation
In this study, I examine and theorize AMD&ART, an artwork devoted to treating polluted water in Vintondale, PA. AMD&ART is much more than simply a water treatment facility, however. Each chapter of this document examines AMD&ART through the lens of a different body of scholarly literature: the …
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Minding the margins: opportunities for an expanded maintenance practice
"The projects presented herein are the result of participatory research and close collaboration with David Monk and Heartland Pathways. They evolved through conversations, interviews, and field trips led by David Monk. The Heartland Pathway became a laboratory for testing generative stewardship …
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Out with the Anthropocene: Art for an Animate Earth
… fed up with the inanity of late capitalism and environmental ruin, this thesis examines the ways in which contemporary artists are working against the grain of the dominant anthropocentric Western culture to seek new pathways out of the so-called Anthropocene. The artists under discussion, …
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Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference.
… understanding of 'ecological thinking' in the arts, through the portfolio of peer reviewed research publications of a producer of public art projects in the healthcare and environment settings. A timeline/visual map is included to draw attention to the interrelations between elements in the …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
… world to understand its intrinsic value. Due to environmental injustice and poor communication, marginalized communities have decreasing access to green spaces and ecological information. Art installations non-conventionally provide access to nature knowledge and experiences that focus explicitly …
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