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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"art field"”.
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Time, Space and Agency: A Dynamical Approach to Narrative in New-Media Artwork
… creation as found in the so-called new-media art field. It focuses on catastrophic models in order to conceptualise, analyse, and create narrative forms with multiple media and diverse formats. It deals with the transmedial nature of story and the phenomena that make it so. In that respect it …
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Trama: Artists’ Initiatives and the Politics of Autogestión in Contemporary Argentina
… which proliferated in the Argentine contemporary art scene in the aftermath of the economic crisis and popular revolts of December 2001. Premised on the notion that the crisis encompassed significant transformations in all spheres of life, the thesis examines the key role of artists’ initiatives …
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Syncwalk : a framework for locative audio composition
… space, grows ever sharper. Location-aware sound art has the potential to apply this new technology in groundbreaking ways, but at present such work is hampered by the lack of a widely-accessible composition platform. In this work, I survey prominent works in the locative-sound art field and …
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The influence of verbal cues on young children's categorization of works of art
… of verbal cues on children's categorization of art work. The children, four, five, and six year olds, performed a matching task showing the influence of the verbal cues. These verbal cues represent the type of classification used by experts in the art field: style, type of media used, the …
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Augmentation as art intervention : the new means of art intervention through mixed reality
This thesis explores an emerging art form--mixed reality art the new opportunities, changes, and challenges it brings to art intervention. Currently mixed reality art is in its early stage of development, and there is relatively little scholarship about this subject. However, I believe augmentation …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… through which to explore how contemporary black artists address negative, inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will focus on the popular trend of referencing historic photographs in revisionist art and explore how Saar's method of including found images and …
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APM Requirements Analysis and Comparison for Veikkaus Oy
… Performance Management (APM) is a growing field, and APM tools on the market tend to be complex enterprise solutions with features ranging from traffic analysis and error reporting to real- user monitoring and business transaction management. This thesis is a study done on behalf of …
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Reanalysis of the settlement of a levee on soft bay mud
… study on the performance of the New Hamilton Partnership (NHP) levee in Novato, California. This 11ft high levee was constructed over 30 ft - 40 ft thick layer of San Francisco Bay Mud during a six-month period in 1996. Settlements along the levee crest were monitored over a period of 5.2 years …
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Curatorship and Post-Duchampian Art in Transnational Contexts
This research examines the role of the artist Marcel Duchamp as a curator, his legacy in the field of curatorship and how the curatorial procedures engendered by him can be transposed to contemporaneity. It presents the dynamics of Post-Duchampian art as those artistic manifestations that make …
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Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study
… explores the creative process of visual artists to better understand how creativity can be cultivated. Visual artists' perspectives and sense-and-meaning-making processes offer a unique view of innovation and creativity. However, there is limited research on the creative processes of …
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From Visual Poetry to Digital Art: Image-Sound-Text, Convergent Media, and the development of New Media Languages
… arises from my practice as a professional artist and my concern with issues of language and communication, particularly, the investigation of ways that arouse emotion and rational thought at once through language. Visual Poetry is a form of expression, which provokes both, and I saw the …
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Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Multiphase Flow, Transport, and Phase Change in Porous Media: Pore-Level Physics, Network Modeling, and Upscaling
… (REV)-scale (e.g., centimeter to meter), to field-scale (e.g., meter to kilometer). To date, most field-scale models are built upon the thermodynamic equilibrium assumption at the REV-scale. However, this assumption is oftentimes violated due to the nonequilibrium physical processes in the …
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Journey into Relatedness: ways to overcome the separation between inner and outer action, engender eco-social insight and facilitate new forms of transdisciplinary Connective Practice, Social Sculpture and Socially Engaged Art
… the lack of attention given in Socially Engaged Art to the necessary interconnectedness and continuity between social engagement and individual mind-shift work. Mind-shift-work is a term now used in the expanded art field of Social Sculpture and Connective Practice. It was coined by Shelley …
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Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive : Instituting ‘Group Material’ (1979–1996)
… critical writing or dissertation that has two parts: (a) Retrospective / Prospective: Activating the Archive, September 1, 2010, and (b) an accretion of further analysis, Archive, Archived, Archiving, September 1, 2011. (2) A testing of both archiving practice and its historical representation …
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Performance evaluation of unconventional aggregates from primary and recycled sources for construction platform and low volume road applications
… concrete aggregate (RCA) with possible large particle sizes, are not readily available in current engineering literature. The main objective of this research study was to evaluate engineering applications and field performances of unconventional aggregates from virgin and recycled sources used …
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The Global Rules of Art
… of cultural goods (e.g., in the visual arts, music, or literature). Scholars have debated whether such accelerated dynamics of the globalization of culture are leading to the worldwide dominance of cultural goods from a few Western countries--and in this sense to growing cultural …
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Creative Common Worlding with Research Creation in Early Childhood Education
… others. Reconceptualizing alternatives through art, this dissertation contemplates the potent possibilities beyond human stewardship, underscores the influence of an uncommoning lens, and emphasizes the difficulties with humancentric notions of research. If, by disrupting how we understand …