Browsing RPI Theses Open Access 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Climate control
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Conversational aesthetic in collaborative practice
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Erie county smile : on exilic media and identity construction
(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 ... -
Field cuts : Encounter 6
(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 ... -
Identity centered design : the liberating of the post-discretionary user
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-08)The intersection of critical creative practices and HCI was explored in an effort to create a design framework for developing material speculations in the form of communication tools that evoke critical reflection. In an ... -
In response
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Machinescape
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Only everything lasts forever
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Parakeet logic
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)This paper is an analysis of how an amalgamation of concepts, processes, emotions, and my art practice during the past two years led to creating my thesis project, Parakeet Logic. A multi-channel sound and video collage, ... -
Post-Cold War gender performances: cross-cultural examination of gender performances viewed through film re-enactments
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Practicing plant-human solidarity : critical ecosocial art, phytocentric pedagogy, and the lawn (re)disturbance laboratory
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-12)Using a plant-led methodology guided by vegetal beings commonly known as weeds, in this dissertation I provide an artistic and scholarly analysis of a field of artistic practice I am defining as critical ecosocial art ... -
Radical game design
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The archivist
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)An exploration of nostalgia, memory, and how we place our existence in the world within the context of what has come before us. In an act of self-exploration, artist Ryan Jenkins allows himself to be overcome with his ... -
“The kind of music we play”: a study of self-idiomatic improvised music and musicians in Boston
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2010-08)