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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Studio practice"”.
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Systematizing Studio Practice: Working with the Known to Generate the Unknown
… multiples as variation, conditional design, and practice-based research. This thesis offers strategies and practices for systematic methods of studio practice, asking designers to evaluate the way they work in the studio and critique the use of systemized methods when it comes to graphic design …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
This practice-based PhD examines the entanglement of gender, botanical science, and domestic aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain through contemporary fine art methods. Taking the botanical collages of Mary Delany (1700–1788) as a historical point of departure, the research situates women’s …
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A body and technology as meme: Durer's Draughtsman drawing a reclining nude, Herrenvolk, aesthetic surgery and an artist's digital studio practice
… with the digital technology used in my studio practice. The discourses surrounding my digital studio practice such as new media, information, and malleability are entangled with a body that is inscribed, socially constructed, and produced. These discourses however, are not only …
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Interfacing the screenic and painted surface: an artistic research project asking what can painting and drawing practice reveal of the contemporary practices and perceptions of touchscreen technology
… study forms an enquiry into the contemporary practices and perceptions of touchscreen technology from the disciplinary context of painting and drawing. A period of studio practice was undertaken in which touchscreens were placed under consideration as a recurring subject matter, with artistic …
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Landscape painting as a critical cross-cultural art practice : exploring how the theories and methodologies in ancient Chinese painting can be fused into contemporary landscape art practice to expand existing artistic formats
This thesis is part of a practice-based Ph.D. study that investigates the genre of landscape painting through a cross-cultural perspective and method of practice. It attempts to link and step across the fields of ancient Chinese and contemporary Western art, with a focus on how to critically …
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An exploration of painting aesthetics, signs, symbols, motifs and patterns of coastal Yoruba land of Nigeria
… project is based on action production - a studio art practice involving painting and drawing. The different outcomes form the basis for identifying, investigating, analysing and documenting artistic tendencies found among the coastal Yoruba of Nigeria. The primary subject of research, …
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Everything is a Box
… film, video games and technology influence my studio practice. <em>Everything is a Box</em> presents the audience with works made through the lens of an artist raised in the United States during the late 1990s.</p>
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The mind of the everyday in contemporary fine art and Zen Buddhist practice
… particularly in relation to Zen Buddhist practice of the everyday. The aim of this research is to make a comparative study of the mind of the everyday in contemporary fine art and Zen Buddhist practice, including in art-making from the beginning of the 20th century to recent contemporary …
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Report ...
… 4-16, 1997, which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice component (100%), together with the Report which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken."
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Report ...
… 4-16, 1997, which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice component (100%), together with the Report which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken."
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Poiesis and Obstruction in Art Practice
… there before’, in the context of obstruction in studio practice. It poses the question ‘Is there a methodology that engages with obstruction which in turn calls new work’? In this thesis, the concept of poiesis emerging from the late Dr. Murray Cox’s ‘Aeolian Mode’, is analyzed alongside a …
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In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good
… The Desert Fathers. These ideas have shaped my studio practice as I construct installations based on worlds which allude to the eternal, the otherworldly, and the fragility of our physical world when compared to more eternal spiritual archetypes.</p>
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Hyperdream: A Play-Based Creative Framework for Self-Motivated Fantasy Authorial Illustration Practice
This thesis consists of a practice-led research doctoral project that investigates the relationship between illustration and play. The aim of this study is to examine the significance of play in my own practice as an illustrator and in the current context of the field of illustration. The objective …
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Automatism and art practice
… an understanding of the use of automatism in the practice of art derived from an interrelationship between the material process of art and critical text. As these practices converge in their vocabularies of the psychic and the somatic, they formulate a discourse of interpretation. The critical …
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Contextualising form, content and creative practice in Igbo dance theatre
… and appreciate the performances. Through a studio practice, this research aims to create a new dance theatre narrative to help analyse and read Igbo dances, and develop a new 'Igbo Descriptive Documentation System' derived from Ann Hutchinson‘s motif notation. The investigations of selective …
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Trace and Time’s Arrow
… a verb, meaning to follow, track or locate. The studio production that I am engaged with encompasses all of these meanings. My MFA research project specifically investigates trace from rust. Rust, also referred to as iron oxide, is a by-product of the breakdown or oxidation1 of iron, and it …
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Head, heart and hand - a visual autobiography
… Heart and Hand corrals the various domains of studio practice, the intellectual, perception and cognition (Head), the emotional, memory and intuition (Heart) and, the technical, skills, media and processes (Hand). These three domains form a triangulation of artistic activity to guide the …
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Every Rock Has a Soul
<p>My studio practice focuses on the Asian American diaspora and the feelings of displacement that arise from being away from one’s homeland. This paper traces the beginning of my journey to find a way to make art that observes and applies Buddhist philosophies, practices and acknowledges the …
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Myco-scapes: Multispecies Entanglements in Artmaking
… responds to the preventative conservation practices employed by art museums. Not only do these sculptures embody the fleeting nature of material entanglements, but they also challenge the capitalist structure of art collecting through their impermanence. The written thesis describes the …
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