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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Film & Sound Recording"”.
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Five ‘Exits’ from Brecht: Towards New Brechtian Subjectivities in Film. How can Brechtian v-effekts be developed or adapted in the light of contemporary understandings of subjectivity?
I am an artist-filmmaker working in, and against, the Brechtian tradition. My practice experiments with ways to repurpose the alienation technique, the Verfremdungseffeckt (v-effekt), challenging the limitations of the continued use of formal critical methods in the Brechtian tradition. For this …
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The address of spirituality in contemporary art
The thesis explores the use of religious 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 …
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Select Reject Reconfigure: Editing Speech in Artists’ Direct Address to Camera
… to editing processes that take place during the recording and subsequent editing of an individual speaking directly to a camera. Rosalind Krauss identified all performance to camera as narcissistic (1976), which includes the subset of artists’ direct address to camera, and since then the area has …
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Collecting Rooms: Objects, Identities and Domestic Spaces
… the combined use of still photography, video and sound. Constructed from a symbiotic relationship between theory and practice, the research uses a methodology that combines Sensory Ethnography with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. This methodology explores the idiosyncrasies of each …
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Art as a Source of Learning for Sustainable Development: Making meaning, multiple knowledges and navigating open-endedness
This research is a practice-based inquiry into the contribution of art to processes in which communities explore, design and proceed on sustainable ways forward. In rejecting an overly technocratic approach, this thesis follows a learning-based conception of sustainable development. Rather than …
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An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing
The intention of most film editing is to create the impression of continuous action (“continuity”) by presenting discontinuous visual information. The techniques used to achieve this, the continuity editing rules, are well established yet there exists no understanding of their cognitive …
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Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of 'Welsh Wales' through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation
… 20th century, the techniques of collage and film montage were linked with the cultural production of political radicalism. The assemblage of new wholes from existing parts established a critical method for negotiating the social world. Driven by technological and cultural developments, the …
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Territorial Violence and Design, 1950-2010: A Human-Computer Study of Personal Space and Chatbot Interaction
… made in fine art, design, fiction and film that are omitted from a history of agent technology. The thesis re-interprets Edward Hall’s work on proxemics, personal space and territoriality, using techniques of the bricoleur and rudiments (an undeveloped and speculative method of …