Browsing Rensselaer Libraries by Subject "Electronic arts"
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1977 : audiovisual excavating and repetition as suspect past impressions in essay filmmaking
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)I explore this through an analysis of three of my essay film works. First, I analyze my compilation video work of 80 films from 1977 in the cinematic Golden Age of Porn and retrospective views of it as a lost paradise one ... -
A practical and theoretical framework for understanding contemporary animated scoring practices
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)This representational directness results in part from the distillation of notational information to what is often a small collection of graphic notational elements and their respective dynamic functionalities. Although ... -
A state of change : my work
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A systems-theoretical approach to spatial electronic music practices
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-08)This is a practice-based research in spatial electronic music composition, performance and observation. The current state of the art includes many different technologies, approaches and organizations that remain separated ... -
A visualist's practice: explorations of interfaces and exercises for live video performance
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Absurdist electronics : design explorations of the physical body in relation to wearable technology
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)This dissertation formalizes the term “absurdist electronics,” an approach to technology design which references both avant-garde art and critical design strategies. Drawing on the Dada principle that absurdity and shock ... -
Aesthetics of fluid-preserved animal and human bodies : an example of research-based art
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)"Aesthetics of fluid-preserved animal and human bodies: an example of research-based art" is based on an interdisciplinary art investigation and intervention on publicly displayed visual artifacts containing animal and ... -
After the run : a development of global ecosystems
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-08)After the Run is composed mainly of true autobiographical stories. The person I overheard at a party "telling stories about eels" was Franklin B. Zimmerman, the musicologist, conductor and Baroque music expert. Other ... -
Algorithmic Menagerie
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-05)Algorithmic Menagerie is a continuation of and the MFA thesis work of my long term research exploring artificial life and self-organization in the field of computer-based generative art. Programmed in Processing, Algorithmic ... -
Art of art of art : an artistic practice with artificial intelligence
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)The project described in this document considers the creative possibilities enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. We consider how these technologies can be used in an artistic ... -
Border art as activism : a Chicana electronic art practice
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2007-05)I created a video titled, 8x8, inspired by the music composer Arnold Schoenberg. I then made a documentary titled, Juarez Mothers Fight Femicide. It is about the rapes and murders happening in the Ciudad Juarez border ... -
Bridge Artistx innovate : gatherings of women, non-binary, and genderqueer artists of color
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)The four artists featured in this initial Bridge Artistx archive are what I term innovative artistic gatherers, in that they practice an artistic aesthetic and/or participate in a method and process that defies or blurs ... -
Buganda art : Kakooza & Nabakooza
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)The task of the thesis is to locate the MFA thesis animation, Kakooza, within a personal, political and art historical context expanding the canon of contemporary African Art before the 1980’s. It documents the development ... -
Calvino's panorama : Invisible Cities imagined
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)This thesis provides a context for the relevance of the panorama in the arts and its evolution over time, while demonstrating the role the panorama played in shaping my installation titled Calvino’s Panorama: Invisible ... -
Climate control
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Conversational aesthetic in collaborative practice
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Cross-border interludes : entanglements of a socially engaged art practice
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-12)Finally, I conclude with the proposition that responding to environmental issues at the community level requires an openness to approaches and critical assessment that can be outside the realm of traditional artistic ... -
Crossmodal equivalences : multisensory composition and the induction of non-ordinary experience
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-08)This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between multisensory installation art and non-ordinary experiences—a term used throughout this work to denote modes of consciousness entailing significant alterations ... -
Dance with the devil
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Disruption, dis/orientation, and intra-action : recipes for creating a queer utopia in audiovisual space
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)Finally, I investigate the collective notion of these queer utopias, and how queering blurs the notion of agency and blends disciplinary boundaries of the process of artmaking. Although there is no doubt that gender and ...