Essays about: "art and media"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 184 essays containing the words art and media.

  1. 16. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Kajsa Reinholdsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Taylor Swift; biographical performativity; mad studies; mad theory; auto biography; confessional poetry; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE

  3. 17. Björk's Biophilia – Affordances of the Biophilia app: Exploring Music and Education through Technology and Transmedia Storytelling

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Caroline Pearsall; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The Biophilia app-album and Educational Project designed by Björk are a fascinating foray into combining science and music education within avantgarde art, media and technology. Her project is unique and remains the only one of its kind. READ MORE

  4. 18. Instructions for a Walk Off Line : stanley brouwn’s deviations from the norm as a strategy for arts bureaucracy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Rosa Simone Paardenkooper; [2023]
    Keywords : Arts bureaucracy; stanley brouwn; Fluxus; Conceptual Art; deviation; off line; disorientation; reparative reading; inclusion; instruction;

    Abstract : Instructions for a Walk Off Line engages in a reparative reading of Fluxus and Conceptual artworks, with a focus on the practice of stanley brouwn, to outline a set of strategies for contemporary artists to approach the role of bureaucracy in mediating their relationship with art institutions. This research starts from the observation that modern and contemporary art museums are increasingly invested in inviting underrepresented artists into their spaces without engaging in the necessary structural changes to meet their conditions for being included. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Afterimage of Violence : Frames and Responsiveness in the Three Films Also Known as Jihadi, Umdrehen and When Things Occur

    University essay from

    Author : Karin Bähler Lavér; [2023]
    Keywords : Aesthetics; Affect; Afterimage; Art; Distribution of the sensible; Ethics; Frame; Lens based media; Politics; Responsiveness; Violence; Transactive;

    Abstract : Abstract The Afterimage of Violence: Frames and Responsiveness in the Three Films Also Known as Jihadi, Umdrehen and When Things Occur This thesis explores the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, and politics in relation to artistic strategies that confront political violence in artistic lens-based media. It aims to expand understandings of the possibilities and limitations of depicting violent real-world events and investigates how images of violence elicit responses from viewers. READ MORE

  6. 20. Assessing the Viability of Random Indexing in Song Recommender Systems

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Erik Rosén; Sead Kozic; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis assesses how Random Indexing performs as a recommender system for music recommendations. Recommender systems have gotten more and more important as the amount of content provided gets larger and larger. They are usually focused on either product traits, and how they relate, or users and their past consumption. READ MORE