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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"artistic research"”.
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Resisting Narrative: Artistic research, narrativity and the constraints of academia
This practice-led research consists of film and photographic-based work that is<br/>responsive to the personal journey of undertaking a PhD. The artistic practice<br/>reflects the pathways and journeys undertaken as both a researcher and<br/>teacher and the struggle with the structural constraints …
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Translating the intimate: digital renderings of bio-matter into material forms through artistic research.
… and grounded by the nature of practice-led artistic research (praxis)—and philosophically inflected by poesis: processes of questioning and reflection that reanimate key aspects of current techno-scientific practice. I reflect upon a series of works fabricated through both two and three- …
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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
… as a recurring subject matter, with artistic research constituting the main method of enquiry. Touchscreen gestures were a particular focus in the studio practice, drawing on the work of theorist Vilém Flusser on gestures. Original outcomes in the form of artworks include 1) 'Touch' …
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The learning and performance practices of the chalumeau: A practice-led autoethnography
… forerunner of the modern clarinet, has been well researched in terms of its history, repertoire, and construction. However, artistic research centred on chalumeau learning and performance practices, particularly in South Africa (SA), is scarce. Compared to other Baroque woodwind instruments, clear …
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Recent experimental electronic music practices in Iran: an ethnographic and sound-based investigation
… growing traditions of digital ethnography and artistic research, this project doc-uments and analyses the processes, aesthetics, and practices that shape the ‘scene’, while exploring and feeding back to those through sound-based practice. In setting ethnographic study and artistic practice in …
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Sketchbooks – A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Sketchbooks by Contemporary Artists
This qualitative research project aims to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of what role sketchbooks play in the creative practice of contemporary artists, and what their shared and individual sketchbook methods are. A comparative analysis of thirteen contemporary artists’ sketchbook …
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Constructing a Reflective Site: Practice between art and pedagogy in the art school
… a Reflective Site is a fine art practice-based research project, which considers the relationship between art practice and teaching. It does this through a critical examination of reflection in art, in pedagogy and in philosophy. Contemporary art forms, like relational practice, discursive …
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Within and Without
… is a document which illustrates my personal and artistic research into the nature of the postmodern conception of the self: that self is unfixed, multiple, and reactive. It explicates my myriad and explorative approaches to photographic portraiture. Furthermore, it indicates many of my …
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No-How Generator: an artistic investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation
… of the choreographic work No-How Generator, an artistic investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation. Drawing on the cognitive science perspective of Guy Claxton and others, this thesis emphasises the embodied basis of knowing and argues that …
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Performing Trans-disciplinarity: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Production
… paradigm. Later I highlight a selection of 3 artistic projects that look at human-non-human relationships, sensory augmentation, and bacterial consent to question methodologies of inquiry in relating beyond the human category. In conclusion I present my thesis exhibition, Poetics of Inquiry, …
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A dedicated mechanism for forgetting : fiction and the ghosts of the plantationocene
… for Forgetting, narrates the process and research behind the films Botanical Ghosts and The Density of Breath, expanding on two years of my artistic research and practice. Part fiction, part epistolary exchange, A Dedicated Mechanism for Forgetting is a meditation on conceptions of vision …
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Looking within: A self-reflective interrogation of orchestration process through Bela Bartok’s 14 Bagatelles for Piano
… choices. Situated within a practice-led research framework, the study combines methods from autoethnography, reflective practice, and constructivist grounded theory. Through simultaneous creative work and documentation, artefacts such as annotated scores, reflective journals, and …
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Portable Heritage: perspectives on white mobility in post-apartheid South Africa
… and supplementation to my visual research. It must be stressed that this research is not the primary object offered for examination; that important role lies with my body of artworks that work in conjunction with the document. The goal of this document is to locate my practice …
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Hyperspatial Interlace - Grasping Four-dimensional Geometry through Crafted Models
… hypersolids. The objective of the artistic research reported here was to craft physical, three-dimensional models that illustrate regular hyperspatial structures through novel visualization methods. I considered kinetic models of the four-dimensional polytopes in particular to be …
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She Swims in Silence: Spatial Narrative, Women's labor in Contemporary Art
… nation-building myth. Through practice-based artistic research, the project attempts to restore their lost voices and unacknowledged suffering and labor, framing the exhibition as a form of praxis. By analyzing the exhibition alongside case studies and critical analysis, the thesis, inspired …
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Nomad School
… not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research project in which I took a life changing experience of living in a nomad community, to develop a body of work that would tell the story of my personal transformation into the artist that I always wanted to be. I used journals and …
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Nomad School
… not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research project in which I took a life changing experience of living in a nomad community, to develop a body of work that would tell the story of my personal transformation into the artist that I always wanted to be. I used journals and …
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Dataremix: Aesthetic Experiences of Big Data and Data Abstraction
… in two recent large-scale transdisciplinary artistic research projects: ATLAS in silico and INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night and their exhibited and published outputs. The thesis reflects upon this practice-based artistic research that interrogates data abstraction: the digitization, …
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Hyperimage: Photography Beyond the Human Scale
… studies, cognitive mapping, and video essays, my artistic research unveils the invisual scalar operations behind the visual image and untangles the complex network of relations at play in computational image making. Hyperimage signifies a shift towards a post-representational ‘truth-to-scale’ …
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Display, interpellation and interpretation: on the development of an artistic gossip practice, in the context of audience interactivity with Nottingham's lace heritage
… imbalances of power between audiences and either artistic or heritage practices. However, this thesis recognizes and demonstrates that authoritative, or hierarchical approaches to audiences exist within each field, and guided by poststructurally informed theoretical perspectives, it confronts …
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