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Showing 1 to 20 of 519 for “"artworks"”.
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Fine-grained artworks classification
In this thesis, we apply deep convolutional neural networks to ne-grained artwork classification on the large-scale painting collection, WikiArt. We propose a new architecture that aggregates features from different convolutional layers to exploit earlier layer features. The new architecture is …
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Alterpieces: Artworks as Shifting Speech Acts
Art viewers and critics talk as if visual artworks say things, express messages, or have meanings. For instance, Picasso’s 'Guernica' has been described as a “generic plea against the barbarity and terror of war”, forming a “powerful anti-war statement”. One way of understanding meaning in art is …
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Jazz and Visual Abstraction: The Artworks of Mongezi Ncaphayi
… as research tools. Additionally, specific artworks are analysed to support an investigation of the cross- modal encounters between visual and sonic elements. These are then interpreted through the lenses of phenomenology, formalism, iconography, and black studies.
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Abstract realism : Non-anthropocentric strategies for constructing non-relational artworks.
… for constructing, staging and encountering artworks as 'non-relational' (following Francois Laruelle) 'totalities' (following Carl Einstein) within the cultural-economic-socio-political reality of'capitalist realism' (following Mark Fisher).The thesis is presented over two 'sectors'. Each …
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Technologies and Artworks: An Interdisciplinary Exploration through Ihde and Latour
Technologies and Artworks: An Interdisciplinary Exploration through Ihde and Latour discusses and applies the phenomenological framework described by the philosopher of science and technology Don Ihde, in his text Technology and the Lifeworld, in relation to recent artworks of sculpture and …
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Unruly Acts: Queer Masculinities in Akram Zaatari’s Lens-Based Artworks
… performed in the contemporary lens-based artworks of internationally recognized Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari. Much of the research on queerness in the Arab region risks falling into a colonialist and liberatory framework that seeks to discover an ‘authentic’ queer identity. Contrary to …
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Internet Art and Agency: The Social Lives of Online Artworks
… World Wide Web. This thesis investigates online artworks by studying their agency. Why do people interact with them, as if they are alive? How do they mobilise people, or make them share visions and ideas? Based on research in largely untapped archives, it presents an in-depth examination of …
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Ambi_ : enterprise artworks, the artist-consultant, and contemporary attitudes of ambivalence
… chapter provides a background for enterprise artworks, and overviews the development of the terms Enterprise Culture and the New Spirit. The second chapter focuses on the artist-consultant (two cases, Artists Placement Group & Ocean Earth) and unpacks the spatial and embodied nature of the …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
… strata that shape our environments. These artworks successfully create conceptually and physically accessible nature experiences.
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The Disappearing Frame.: A Practice-based investigation into composing virtual environment artworks
… three-dimensional, virtual environment artworks might be explicated, potential compositional issues characterised, and possible production strategies identified and/or proposed. Initial research summarises a range of classifications pertaining to the function of interactivity within …
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Online Specificity: Live Event Artworks and the Inner Continuity of the Network.
… research analyses the encounter of Net/Web artworks, their materiality and their space-time condition. I analyse a selection of online-specific artworks to examine their materiality and experiential features in an investigation into how they can offer a varied encounter atypical to offline …
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The disappearing frame: a practice-based investigation into composing virtual environment artworks
… three-dimensional, virtual environment artworks might be explicated, potential compositional issues characterised, and possible production strategies identified and/or proposed. Initial research summarises a range of classifications pertaining to the function of interactivity within …
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Ways of making: producing artworks in the studio in response to experiential walking
This thesis includes a body of paintings, drawings and assembled objects that have been made in response to the Crossing England walks (2014 - 2018). This body of work is entitled The English Diagrams (2018). The research draws upon the varied perspectives of Fine Art, Performance Studies and …
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An investigation into the use of discovered objects to inspire artworks in clay
… to inspire ceramic or ceramic and mixed media artworks. In what way could these objects, or their characteristics of decay, be represented, referenced or included in the process of working with clay? What was the relationship between the discovered and the created objects, such that a …
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A MOBILE XRF SCANNER FOR A REAL-TIME ELEMENTAL IMAGING OF PAINTED ARTWORKS
Painted artworks are complex multi-layered materials studied over the time with several sophisticated imaging techniques. Scanning MA-XRF technique provides information on pigment materials and their distribution over the painted surface in non-invasive manner. Further, it provides information on …
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60 Artists, 60 Artworks, 60 Years: Celebrating the Archie Bray Foundation. A Curatorial Experience
<p>A curatorial experience</p>
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60 Artists, 60 Artworks, 60 Years: Celebrating the Archie Bray Foundation. A Curatorial Experience
<p>A curatorial experience</p>
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Art and the Human Condition: Incorporating Visual Analysis of Artworks into a Undergraduate Pre-Medicine Curriculum
This thesis project presents a sample class session for the course, "The Human Condition: An Arts Perpective" (ARTH 361), which will be a part of the optional Medical Humanities minor for the pre-medicine students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Dr. Margaret Lindauer, Associate Professor …
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