Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"arts practices"”.
-
On the Horizon: Toward a Revisioning of Environmentally-Engaged Arts Practices
This research-creation thesis explores the intersecting themes of art and environmental crisis. It attempts to underscore the imbalances of power and agency throughout both the human and non-human worlds, which have driven the phenomenon that has been termed the Anthropocene. I begin with a …
-
English Language Learning through Visual Arts Practices: A Curriculum for Conflict-affected Youth in Secondary Education
… English language literacy through student visual arts projects using text and images. The purpose of the curriculum is to familiarize students to the various confidence-building and coping mechanisms available in creative expression and to develop valuable visual and verbal language related life …
-
Transformative Arts Practices in the Criminal Justice System. The impact of human rights violations on identity amongst those previously incarcerated
… form, Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), and its practices of Image Theatre and Newspaper Theatre. These practices draw on lived experiences in the form of storytelling and poetry, based on metaphor and its links with reality. The writing in the research is defined as autobiographical fiction or …
-
Political Sound: National Socialism and Its Musical Afterlive
… on various developments in post-1945 sonic arts practices. Part I explores ways in which sonic expression was manipulated as part of the National Socialist regime’s articulation of sovereignty. It reframes Walter Benjamin's phrase ‘aestheticization of politics’ in relation to various forms …
-
Surveying the Soul: Shaping Auto-Criticism with Reflective Arts-Based Inquiry to Assess a Female Doctoral Experience
<p>This dissertation is an arts-based auto-criticism assessing the author's experience in her doctoral program. It is also perhaps the first dissertation elaborating on a method called auto-criticism, as derived from educational criticism and connoisseurship. The process of inquiry is rooted in …
-
Approaching the Formless: the non-figurative art of the Hindu traditions and its relevance to a contemporary arts practice
… of the Vedic and Tantric traditions through an Arts Practice as Research methodology. The research engages with traditional arts practices, and considers whether the practice of copying sacred artworks is able to inform a contemporary arts practice. The research questions whether the minimalist …
-
Embracing Detroit's urban ruins
… a new way of seeing and responding to decrepit parts of the natural and built environment. Aligning itself with the surrounding grassroots initiatives focused on urban agriculture, inclusive arts practices and public green space to inform the proposed intervention’s hybrid program, this thesis …
-
Identity in Flux: A Theoretical and Choreographic Enquiry into the Identity of The Open Dance Work
… between choreographic and interactive digital arts practices, is an embodiment of Deleuze and Guattari’s process-oriented ontology of the event. This work indicates that theories of identity and/or individuation which are grounded in an ontology of flux are a more appropriate model to apply to …
-
Constructing a Reflective Site: Practice between art and pedagogy in the art school
… the need to continually examine contemporary arts practices for models contributing to subject specific pedagogies in fine art, in order to keep the relationship between the subject and the academy critical and productive.
-
(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
My thesis considers a feminist arts practice as a form of political agency. My research is practice-led. It consists of three performances/live art events (Medea/Mothers’ Clothes, Magdalena Makeup and Joan Trial), its documentation on three sets of DVDs and a written dissertation. Female …
-
Mapping a lived experience in landscape: An artist’s analysis of GPS and GIS data
… digital interfaces used in a socially engaged arts practice aligned with the concerns of participatory mapping. The research identifies a problem which occurs when the development and use of technologies begins to conflate data with its visual representation or, conversely, reduces the …
-
Participating in Radical Visual Sociology: Supporting housing activism through gentrification and displacement research
This thesis examines whether participatory arts practices can be deployed in changing urban contexts without getting co-opted into that change and, instead, help to resist its uneven aspects. It presents a participatory arts and research project which responds to the politics and aesthetics of 21st …
-
Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
… archive of early American writings on the visual arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when American authors cultivated professional and interpersonal connections with American painters and sculptors, …
-
Text+Object+Action=Textact: Can text work as the main focus of a performance art practice?
… alternative text forms and writing with various parts of the body. My chosen texts consist of composed pieces and borrowed individual words, phrases, quotes, a definition and a song. The random text content is designed to place the focus upon the process of the work rather than the subject content …
-
The Angel of Art Sees the Future Even as She Flies Backwards: Enabling Deep Relational Encounter Through Participatory Practice-Based Research
… lack of opportunity within interdisciplinary arts practices for deep one-to-one relational encounters between creative practitioners operating in applied arts, performance, and workshop contexts with participant-subjects. This artistic problem is situated within the wider culture of pervasive …
-
The Multivalence of the Image Within Baroque Painting
… outlines and acknowledges existing research and arts practices, in order to build a foundation of textual research that supports the practical research process. The examination of contemporary artists’ accounts of experiencing historic paintings offers points of contemplation and evidence for the …
-
X Reality Networked Performance: Message Based Distributed Systems for Controlling and Presenting Multiple Realities
… on historical and contemporary performing arts practices that normally occur within the confines of a single physical location. Such performances present a special set of requirements on the system that supports them. They need to access and integrate all the systems that are typically …
-
Raising Awareness of Data-ethics for PGCE Computing using Ballet and Biometrics as Narrative Tools: An AgileDBR Approach
… study explores the use of creative computing and arts practices, specifically biometrics and ballet, to raise awareness of data-ethics among Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) trainee computing teachers. This thesis explores the issue of how creative computing practices can effectively …
-
Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
… across the interdisciplinary fields of media arts, digital arts and contemporary technological arts and is positioned at the noisier end of the artistic spectrum of these disciplines. The practice-led research presented here deals with the shift away from clean digital media environments of …
-
Dataremix: Aesthetic Experiences of Big Data and Data Abstraction
… data. The research is situated in digital arts practices that engage a combination of big (scientific) data as artistic material, embodied interaction in virtual environments, and poetic recombination. A transdisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice, x-resonance, provides a …
Page 1 of 2