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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"NX Celfyddydau yn gyffredinol"”.
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Unmasking Masks An Analysis of Psychological Physical and Virtual Masks as applied to Intellectual Property(IP) Character Design in Branding and Marketing Strategies
… Virtual Masks for Intellectual Property)—that synthesizes mask theory with branding and design methodology. Through design practice and pedagogical experimentation, this research contributes a practical and theoretical framework for guiding the development of brand IP characters. The outcome is …
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You Matter To Me; Mattering, Materialising and Unmattering.
New materialism is at the forefront of modern artistic movements, the art of being, the art of matter-ing. This essay will explore what it means to matter, to be matter, and how relationships between the self and the rest of the world are forged. There is space for exploration of what it means to …
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A Critical Inquiry: Paintbrush to Pixels; Developing Paradigms In the production and consumption of New Media Art.
Art represents our culture, and our current culture is largely dependent on technology. However, artworks created and exhibited with digital technologies have not been as perceptible so far within contemporary arts institutions as traditional analogue art forms. This thesis instigates a critical …
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
This thesis interrogates a number of issues that surround what critics have designated ‘film noir’ and its relationship to that branch of modern American literature identified as ‘hard- boiled fiction’. Thus, the main subject matter for the thesis consists of selected films noirs from 1944—46, and …
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An Investigation of Current Rural Household Furniture in East Hebei (Jidong) Province, China
… pieces without considering socio-cultural dynamics. Another significant finding is the classification of rural household yard layouts, including pre-earthquake yards, contemporary residential yards, and a newly identified functional-type yard, which reflects adaptive responses to …
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Can Products be Designed to Promote Subjective Wellbeing?
This thesis sets out the synthesis of a body of research in response to the question, ‘can products be designed to promote subjective wellbeing’? To achieve this, three different forms of research are undertaken and cross-compared. The exploration of existing literature, primary research into …
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Cinematographer as storyteller : how cinematography conveys the narration and the field of narrativity into a film by employing the cinematographic techniques.
Many researchers recognise the importance of the role of cinematography in films. A cinematographer apart from his technical abilities can be a creative addition to any film production. The role of the cinematographer in support of the director's vision can develop narratives in films with an …
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
This dissertation examines how Nazi elites instrumentalised looted cultural objects as tools of power, ideology, and self-fashioning. It argues that looting was not a by-product of war but a deliberate strategy central to Nazi cultural policy, disguising theft as legality while reinforcing the …
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Three is a Crowd: A potential exception to an oppositional rule
The oppositional rule, established upon the philosophical traditions of binarism and dialecticism, situates the two protagonists in this research (the artistic collaboration matthews and allen) as antithetical systems. This discourse proposes a disruption to a metaphysical dichotomy between the …
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In search of the holy story: an exploration of storytelling in relation to Heidegger's phenomenological model of art, and the power of storytelling to re-enchant the world.
Storytelling is a live event whereby individuals take on specific roles and cocreate an artwork in the form of a story-told. As a Heideggerian Artwork this discloses the Being of beings, specifically through a mode of engaging with beings which lets them be independent from the role of resource …
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Augmenting the agency of marginalised members of society within the semiotic authority of narrative form.
Abstract This practice-based research investigates the effects of the semiotic authority that underlies the symbols and stories of a dominant culture. This research investigates the effects of the everyday mythologised body of ‘reality’ that arguably manifests itself in situations of symbolic abuse …
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Addressing the gap in the arts and culture industry in Dubai problems and solutions
The research question permeating this thesis is how to address effectively the gap in the Arts and Culture in Dubai, a city that has prospered so well economically and financially in recent decades. Therefore, my focus is on those activities and events relating to literature, the visual arts, …
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How Time Becomes (Mise En) Obsolete
Abstract (My abstract is purposely vague and enigmatic, this is to prepare the viewer for the work. I do not give too much away, i want the viewer to enter the Mise En Obsolete with as few pre suppositions as possible in order for them to form their own of ideas of what the work is about, without …
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The Creative Art Journey: An artist facilitator's autoethnographic exploration of the specificities of place, culture, and tradition through workshop-led extra-curricular art learning in Wales.
The thesis explores the dynamic between the artist as facilitator and participants in extracurricular art workshops. A personal perspective examines whether the Welsh context allows for more creative freedom in undertaking art workshops. The thesis emphasises the role of the artist facilitator in …