Browsing RPI Theses Online (Complete) by Author "Hahn, Tomie"
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Aesthetics of fluid-preserved animal and human bodies : an example of research-based art
Lee, Jung Yoon (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 ... -
Beyond appearances: the experience of equivalent colors in architecture
Besenecker, Ute Christa (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)One objective of this dissertation was to include designerly ways of working into a research inquiry that aims to produce knowledge targeted at designers. To accomplish this, the research used both selected qualitative and ... -
Breathtaking: contemporary figures of U.S. asthma care
Kenner, Alison Marie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2011-08) -
Buganda art : Kakooza & Nabakooza
Nabakooza, Kasalina Maliamu (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 ... -
Crossmodal equivalences : multisensory composition and the induction of non-ordinary experience
Miller, Eric (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 ... -
Erie county smile : on exilic media and identity construction
Tran Nguyen, Van N. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)This dissertation text is intended to provide the historical background and theoretical framing for my doctoral video project, ERIE COUNTY SMILE (2021) and to contextualize the theory and practices that led to the project’s ... -
Experiencing memorial space in "a Land of Refuge"
Lauzon, Robb Conrad (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)This dissertation explores how a nation’s identity becomes inscribed in memorial spaces and how these spaces are experienced by citizens. I argue that understanding the composition of memorial spaces and how individuals ... -
Field cuts : Encounter 6
Stewart, Jeremy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-05)This thesis provides documentation of the creation and development of Field Cuts: Encounter 6, an electrically/electronically mediated movement performance for three dancers that explores the ability of performers to ... -
Gender in kinesthetic digital play» Computationally Reconstituted Identity
Allen, David (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)This thesis and accompanying creative work examine the social implications of creating computational representations of the body for kinesthetic digital play, a term I use to describe a form of play that has emerged at the ... -
Leaf, twine, nail, and stick: everyday life in composition, collection, and creative non-fiction
Pitcher, Jefferson D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008-05) -
Machinescape
Creston, Sena Clara (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2012-08) -
Music re-informed by the brain
Chechile, Alex A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2007-12) -
Personal havens beyond the hall : the psychology of intimacy within the ecology of experimental music venues
Gibbs, Bobby Edward (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2011-05) -
Points of contact : an actor-centered approach for the design of interactive environments for theatre performance
O'Hare, Matth (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)The applications for digital media in contemporary theatre practice commonly fail to support the presence of the performer as defined by foundational actor-training techniques. This dissertation articulates the impediments ... -
Sacred journalism : displaying public memory in This American Life
Savoie, Hillary Lee (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-12)This dissertation examines the radio show This American Life as an example of contemporary public memory. While public memory scholars have begun to explore the role of public participation in the construction of memory ... -
Tell Me Everything : a narrative video art practice
Thorson, Joshua (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)In my video work, I use narrative conceptually, exploring and exploiting narrative conventions of exchange through the themes of science, religion, transcendence, authenticity, idealism, and trauma. Using shifts in genre ... -
The fat subject in transition
Tyrol, Katherine Anne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)This project relies on ethnographic interviews and participant-observation with WLS recipients. My findings in this project are that the influence of post-surgical alcohol dependence is far more significant to recipients ... -
“The kind of music we play”: a study of self-idiomatic improvised music and musicians in Boston
Bullock, Michael T. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2010-08) -
Transpose MR
Tompkins, Joseph Craig (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2009-05)