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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Visual art practice"”.
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I love Turtles! A Visual art practice-based exploration of the emergent endangered sea turtles of the KwaZulu-Natal Coast
… of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Visual and Performing Arts, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Away from end product or genre: a protocol as artistic language: evolving a critical framework for contemporary visual art practice in the public (or social) realm, 2000-2003.
For contemporary visual art to be visible and exist as art in peer networks it usually depends upon its transformation into objects. Can we define and test out an alternative visibility more adequate to a production that is 'an act of supplying'? I propose a method to help us understand the …
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Embodied reflective practice : the embodied nature of reflection-in-action
… theories of reflection-in-action in relation to visual art practice. Schön’s (1983) theories demonstrate that whilst they are written with design disciplines in mind, they do not extend to consider the appropriateness of its use in visual art practice. Scrivener (2000: 10) draws the distinction …
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The import of the sensation of the abyss
… and historical contexts, I draw on a range of visual images, explorations of language use, research into cultural constructs, religious practices and historical events. The reflections on the abyss contained in this thesis contribute to broader research by connecting the developing concept of …
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Things that
This thesis explores the artistic practice of the author by investigating selected art work she has produced within the last nine years. The writing avoids explaining, and instead aims to share with the reader by exploring how divided attention has been a major topic of research for her visual art …
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How to wear utopia: A dress manual for a convivial future
… utopian dress as a theoretical concept and artistic and curatorial practice, using dress as a tool for imagining alternative futures. Situated at the intersection of visual art practice, dress and utopia, the thesis adopts utopia as a method to foster reflexive engagement, creating a …
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Jazz and Visual Abstraction: The Artworks of Mongezi Ncaphayi
… between jazz music and abstraction in the visual arts. Its focus is to analyse phenomenological aspects in the selected works of South African contemporary visual artist and jazz saxophonist Mongezi Ncaphayi (b.1983), as a means to understand the nature of the relationship between the …
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Living with contradictions: re-reading the representation of hybridity in visual art
My practice-based PhD investigates how photographic arts can subvert existing visual stereotypes of otherness by exploring how the concept of hybridity undermines black and white notions of identity. Alongside an autobiographical visual art practice, using my own mixed heritage (Sri Lanka and …
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Something rich and strange: a psycho-geographic unconcealing of the genius loci of Shoreditch, London, exploring affinities between generative artificial intelligence and Shakespearean text
This arts-led research project investigates the creative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in a visual art practice. To stimulate human/computer creative collaboration I introduce the imaging power of GenAI models to the words of William Shakespeare (1564 –1616). Text, themes, …
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Peirce's Semeiotic and the Implications for Aesthetics in the Visual Arts: a study of the sketchbook and its positions in the hierarchies of making, collecting and exhibiting
The thesis argues that a particular aesthetic theory (Esthetics), is implied by Peirce's Semeiotic, and that they have both been clarified when tested from the perspective of a visual art practice involving sketchbooks. This research also constructs and lays out the first 'user friendly' guide to …
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Alien Sex Club: Educating audiences about continuing rates of HIV transmission using art and design
Alien Sex Club is a practice based PhD that addresses current modes of representation of HIV in art, which grows out of the minimalist aesthetic developed during the earlier part of the AIDS crisis by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Today however, it is acknowledged that HIV is an …
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Finding the Material of Memory: Sketch for a Palimpsest
… research complements a film project developed as art-based research, the aim being to investigate the primary research question: How can the Barbican be revealed as a place of memory through a visual portrait? Using walking as a means of researching the Barbican in the City of London, the research …
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Hyperspatial Interlace - Grasping Four-dimensional Geometry through Crafted Models
… and theoretical physics, but also on fiction and visual arts. Because the mathematically described four-dimensional structures are difficult to grasp visually, it is instructive to observe spaces of lower and higher dimensionality in their hierarchical relation. In this context we can see that our …
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Drawn from artists’ lives: An empirical study of the situation and realisation of professional visual art practices in the Western Australian Field of cultural production
… of empirical research on the working lives of visual artists living and working in Western Australia. No detailed studies of this kind have previously been undertaken in a Western Australian context, though a series of national, economically framed studies have surveyed Australian artists …