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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"installation art"”.
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Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art
Gallery film and video installation have been figured within a discourse on the phenomenological subject, the avant-garde and its relation to the gallery as a site of political and cultural activity, and with respect to medium specificity. A question about video and film installation has been posed …
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Installation Art and Memory: A Practice-As-Research Exploration
… investigates how a piece of site-responsive Installation Art, titled Triple Point Dunnage (exhibited in Royal William Yard, June 2009), can be used to generate knowledge about memory work through experience of site. Working in dialogue with the ideas of Daniel C. Dennett, Lucy Lippard and …
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Past, Present & Future: Decolonization Through American Indian Performance & Installation Art
<p>Performance and installation art are unique creative outlets which have the benefit of undefined or blurred boundaries. Both performance art and installation art provide creative formats which present a means to address the cultural struggles that Indians face throughout the Americas. In …
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Urban Image and Otherness: An investigation through practice of installation art.
This research examines the hypothesis that installation art: -is not a medium but a mode of address, addressing the world as a multiplicity; -uses tactics of 'dispersal', which as perceptual gesture is in affinity with notions of multiplicity. The explanatory framework, which legitimates …
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Light and Space: Los Angeles Installation Art and the Environment of the 1970s
<p>“Light and Space: Los Angeles Installation Art and the Environment of the 1970s” presents an ecocritical reinterpretation of the work of four Los Angeles-based installation artists who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Often called Light and Space artists, Maria Nordman (b. 1943), Doug …
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Ontological Machines: Subjectivity and Relational Desire in Immersive and Interactive Environments
This practice-based artistic research focuses on two contemporary spaces; namely the pedagogical spaces of healthcare Simulation Based Education (SBE), and the exhibition spaces of installation art. These seemingly unrelated activities share a range of technological and operational similarities …
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Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice
As a performance artist and arts activist I present my research project to the audience in performative writing, a postmodern research style that advocates the integration of the artist/researcher identity. In the summer of 2010, I left for Egypt to teach a performance and installation art workshop …
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Black Lake
… non-fiction essay, chapbook of poetry and video installation art piece, meditating on grief, loss, and the tenth anniversary of my father’s suicide. Born from a collection of poems, the works are intimate yet leave room for the reader to breathe and map their own personal experience onto the …
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An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Thomas Baugh Abstract In this research I explore my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and make manifest equivalent experiences of it through art practice. I investigate my OCD through artistic enactments and test my equivalence of the …
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Tamed: Hair and Female Subjectivity
… against women in China today, and examines my art research throughout the study of the Master of Fine Arts degree at University of Calgary. Although, since 1949, Mao Zedong had proclaimed that “women hold up half of the sky,” in fact societal pressure on women to conform is so great that even …
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30 going on 13 (strike out) like like or just a “like”?
… and utilizing the immersive characteristics of installation art, my thesis uses materiality, abstraction, and text to center and de-center the viewer calling on them to participate in an assemblage of simultaneously comforting and awkwardly disorienting material fragments.
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… of the body as mediated through technology and art, questioning the boundaries between the physical and virtual. By investigating the interactions of cultural ideals, technological mediation, and material experimentation, the research delves into how contemporary art practices can challenge and …
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Painting in Stone: The Symbolism of Colored Marbles in the Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity until the Enlightenment
… piety in Florida, from Etruscan tomb painting to installation art, but key monuments like Hagia Sophia and the Cornaro Chapel offer case studies for in-depth analysis.
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Tools for Togetherness: Building Social Networks through Public Tool-making
… public tools—including flyers, posters, and installations that facilitate relationship-building—this work aims to challenge the prevailing alienation by demonstrating the importance of connectivity and exchange. Embedding mutual support and connectivity into daily routines should not merely …
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Imfihlo
… are transgressed by contemporary South African artists in 'showing' and 'telling' things that are otherwise considered as secret. I discuss the ways in which my own practice as an artist and isangoma troubles the threshold. Considering the ideological function of the secret, my work examines the …
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Confronting gold mine acid drainage : art as counter-activity
Environmental art: Art relating to the individual’s response, understanding and interest towards the land, including art forms such as Land/Earth art as well as more sensitive art forms such as Eco-art, focussed more on the earth’s natural processes. Exploitation: The exploitation of mineral …
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The Future of the Already Built
… and projects that cross the boundary between installation-art, architecture, interiors, and adaptive reuse. It is further reinforced by publications about the directly connected pedagogy. This body of work demonstrates an acute grasp of the shifting social, cultural, and ecological contexts …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
… to green spaces and ecological information. Art installations non-conventionally provide access to nature knowledge and experiences that focus explicitly on the interconnectedness of universal processes and our place as humans. Three case studies of installation art will show how the artists …
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