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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"creative research"”.
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South African Jazz in Frame: A creative research project exploring South African jazz through photography
The aim of this creative research project was to investigate and document the closely connected relationships between South African jazz musicians and South African jazz photographers through their contributions such as the images, videos and the stories behind each of the respective art forms. The …
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Bumper to bumper: photographing across the class divide in post-apartheid South Africa. A photographic essay and analysis
… accompanying this text constitutes the creative research component of my M.A. in Media Theory & Practice. I chose to photograph the men (and to a lesser but nonetheless significant degree women) that we see being transported in bakkies and trucks on our roads on a daily basis, compiling …
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A Part of a Whole
… is a distillation of insights gained through creative research that examines my relationship to abandoned locations in Western Canada. I have discovered an empathy for the past inhabitants, a curiosity for the sites themselves, and a desire to imagine these locations as they once were. This …
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Thinking Safety: Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar: Body/Space Investigations of Womens Safety in Cape Town
… series Thinking Safety that I produced as the creative research component of this masters dissertation. The creation of this series used an interdisciplinary design-based ethnographic research methodology to prompt actionable discussions around the physical manifestations of the lack of …
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Anarchival dance: choreographic archives and the disruption of knowledge
… creation of three anarchival performances. The research theorises the anarchival as a creative research methodology for archival questioning and epistemological disruption, enacted through the body. Through a critically reflexive thinking-through of choreographic practice, alongside an …
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Looking Back to the Future: The South African Big Band Jazz Aesthetic Curating the South African Jazz Songbook for Jazz Orchestra
This creative research project involved the curating of repertoire for a special performance in the Royal Albert Hall, of a South African Jazz Songbook, featuring the Metropole Orkest and selected soloists, and the resulting music preparation process for the concert. The objective of this project …
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(Re)viewing big brother and (per)forming the real
This research project, [Re]Viewing Big Brother and [Per]Forming the Real, set about a critical examination of watching and being watched; specifically, ‘everyday’ people in the traditionally private space of the home mediated by surveillance technologies. The research methodology was …
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other ways to inhabit the world | other ways of being with
This paper re-presents the research/artworks I have conducted/lived/produced between September 2014 and Summer 2016. Its primary objective is to better situate my Thesis Performance, collate | the collective inside, within the larger framework of an iterative creative research practice. Through the …
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Uncertainty and individual discretion in allocating research funds
There is a long-standing tradition in public research funding agencies of distributing funds via peer review, which aggregates evaluations of proposed research ideas from a group of external experts. Despite complaints that this process is biased against novel ideas, there is poor understanding of …
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Reflections on Our Time
… series of paintings. My goal is to share the creative research that led to the creation of these images and perhaps create a forum for the viewer to question their relationship with the natural world and the environmental footprint they leave behind.</p>
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Insuring the African future
… and so promoting sustainable development. This creative research project argues that a robust insurance industry promotes economic growth and that the parallel developments, in the story of African growth and the risk management practices of the insurance industry, present a compelling framework …
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Sexuality and cultural heritage at odds: I Fuck What I Like, an ode to the young queer black woman in South Africa
… paper as a theatre practitioner to complete a creative research project in line with complicating and archiving queer black women's narratives in the South African performance and literary canon. As a strategy of social reform, I aim to complicate what I argue to be an insistent narrative of …
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The [un]knowing director: a critical examination of directing within the context of devising performance
… within the methodological terrain of qualitative research and specifically employs practice as research. Specifically, its methodology entailed a structured questionnaire responded to by seven Southern African devising performance directors. The questionnaire's general research aim was to identify …
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Two Waters: Warburdar & Wai
… Using an Indigenous storytelling approach, this creative research blends film, story, projection, sound and design to create a new immersive sensory experience that raises consciousness of the sacred nature of water and our environment. To explore this, Giovanni looks at the relational aspect of …
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Faking it : the seduction of surface
This creative research conflates three of my personal obsessions -- the French Rococo, television, and craft materials -- and culminates with a collection of wearable sculptures that satirize the often-ostentatious masquerade of American mating rituals. Channeling a carnivalesque Rococo spirit, I …
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Oral history heirlooms: vitality and substance in learning
… of knowledge for students where interviews and research combine living memories with documented resources to create and preserve personalized history. The author obtained information through personal interviews with family members from the descendents of Vito Antonio Mevoli, Filomena (Onorato) …
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Telepresence and Transgenic Art
… result from extensive technical, historical, and creative research.<br/><br/>The first section presents comprehensive research in the history and theory of the artistic use of elecommunications media, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Internet. This section also introduces …
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New opportunities for photon storage and detection: an exploration of a high-efficiency optical quantum memory and the quantum capabilities of the human eye
… Nevertheless, there is still a great need for creative research that explores possibilities for new capabilities. Particularly, we look towards quantum optics research to develop new ways of manipulating and detecting photons. Here, we discuss our efforts toward developing two separate quantum …
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Examining Tacit Exchange, Embedded Within Socially Shared Hand-Stitching Practices, With The Shipibo Artists Of Peru
… the role of the tacit in my intercultural creative exchange with a number of the Shipibo artists of Peru. Central to the research was a three month residency spent in Peru with these artists. The research reflexively examines the impact of the residency on my creative praxis. In particular, …
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Composing Malaysian popular music for the Orchestra in the early 21st century
… subject and I write evocative narratives on my creative, research and professional lives. The main subject matters of this research are everyday professional composition practices striving for an improvement in the composition skills; and the use of traditional instruments juxtaposed with …
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