Essays about: "indexicality"
Found 4 essays containing the word indexicality.
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1. Youtubing Sápmi : Sámi multisemiotic repertoires, decolonial mobilization and interdiscursivity in the wired age
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : This thesis explores the practice of “youtubing Sápmi”, which entails Sámi decolonial mobilization, multisemiotic and multilingual language use on YouTube. The aim is to understand how YouTube videos can function as a tool for discursive mobilization and as a complement or alternative to linguistic and cultural revitalization. READ MORE
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2. Who's there? : monologues on painting, indexicality and perception. A thinking process.
University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)Abstract : What we encounter in painting is not so much the authentically revealed self of the painter, but rather signs that insinuate that this absent self is somewhat present in it. /Isabelle Graw/ So, then what is a painting? Perhaps it is all about time, a certain amount of time in the constant murmuring stream of consciousness and the unconscious. READ MORE
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3. The Avatar and the Index: Digital Corporeality in the Art of Ed Atkins
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis attempts to understand how digital representations of the body understand and mediate the digital and Real body. In order to approach this inquiry, this thesis will engage with and compare debates regarding the semiotic register of the index, and how it has been understood in relation to analogue photography versus digital media. READ MORE
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4. Animated Memories : A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory
University essay from Stockholms universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : Through its ability to create images of non-representable incidents animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can represent and how. This master thesis investigates the potential of animated documentary within social memory exemplified by the interactive animated documentary Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison (Forensic Architecture, 2016). READ MORE