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Agar Agar : a practice and theory of cultural hybridity in contemporary art
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: What can auto-ethnography and the concepts of Agar Agar and hybridity contribute to a contemporary art practice? ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to explore the ideas of Agar Agar and ... -
Analysis and practice of organic forms in ceramic arts
(2023)Throughout history, organic forms can be found in various social contexts such as community rituals. Gradually, with the development and maturation of modern science, organic forms started to be employed in a more conceptually ... -
Animating the future of urban transportation in Auckland: How can the practice of animation help to promote environmentally sustainable choices in urban transportation in Auckland / New Zealand?
(2021)This exegesis mainly documents the whole process and ideas of my design of this animation. The background of this document is based on the fact that animation has always been a widely used propaganda technique, but now the ... -
Auckland 2017-2018 : a year in the life of an international student from Beijing
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can illustration visually communicate an experience of living in a different culture in Auckland, New Zealand (NZ)? ABSTRACT: New Zealand is one of the most beautiful island countries in the ... -
Brown-Baby
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the integration of different creative techniques and practices contribute to the development of Pasefika visual storytelling? ABSTRACT Brown-Baby is a visual compilation of multiple art mediums ... -
Co-designing primary learning space in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2017-03)Research Question: How can co-design assist students at a bicultural primary school in central Auckland transition into a ”Modern” or ”Innovative” learning environment (MLE/ILE)? New Zealand’s Ministry of Education ... -
Exploring whānau knowledge and hybridity through typographical design
(2020)This exegesis documents and accounts for the development of a body text typeface designed by me, a hybrid practitioner. Using a practice-based approach with a focus on auto-ethnography, my research explores my own experiences ... -
(I’m)permeable: How can a contemporary installation practice provide understandings of permeability through the embodiments of rituals?
(2022)Artists, thinkers, and everybody, vaguely works under the same conditions we agree upon as life. As does the matter that composes them and their worlds. (I’m)permeable—is a body of shorthand long-form written observations ... -
Justmytype: An exploration of documentary filmmaking for New Zealand typographic education
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can an online multi-part documentary series on perspectives and approaches to typography be used as an educational resource to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject? ABSTRACT The purpose ... -
A life between us : exploring embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following through dance
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can dance contribute to a better understanding of the embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following? ABSTRACT: Society’s investment in the leader-as-hero ... -
Mana mokopuna mai i te waharoa ki te wahakura : activating sacred potential for mokopuna through raranga and tikanga pā harakeke
(2017)This kaupapa rangahau seeks to establish the application of te reo o te pā harakeke me ona tikanga as a tangible model for oranga whānau and the weaving of wahakura as a way for mokopuna to access rongoā. It is an articulation ... -
‘Not durable, but sustainable’: print technology and ephemerality in product design
(2018)[RESEARCH] QUESTION: How can the principles of temporary and the ephemeral be employed by design in the critical redesign of consumer technological artefacts? OBJECTIVES: - Develop a taxonomy of ephemerality in design, ... -
Planet of the Long White Cloud : science fiction cinema in New Zealand cultural identity
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the science fiction genre be used to explore cultural identities within New Zealand? ABSTRACT: Stargazing in the wilds of New Zealand is a wondrous thing. The cool, clean air chills your ... -
Primary : film adaptation in theory and practice
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How do all the aspects of the filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to the editing suite, impact the outcome and overall ‘success’ of the adaptation? ABSTRACT: The adaptation of works for film has ... -
Rust never sleeps: How can material exploration contribute to an understanding of time and place in contemporary sculpture and installation art?
(2023)My project explores my ongoing investigation employing an amalgamation of processes in relation to an emergent discussion regarding the vulnerability and fragility of things; the passing of time and site as expressed in a ... -
Self discovery through figurative painting
(2017)Narrative painting through allegorical figuration For the initial stages of my master’s project I embarked on a series of works that were a tentative step towards understanding the notion of ‘narrative’ and how this ... -
Stoking the flames of the digital fireplace. How can the practice of vlogging contribute to an understanding of the presentation of self in contemporary oral history making?
(2020-08-04)Stoking the Flames of the Digital Fireplace is a creative practice based project with an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic focus in which I experiment with and analyse the medium of video-logging (vlogging) on the Youtube ... -
Uso 4 Life
(2022)Culture and identity among New Zealand’s Pacific diaspora are highly complex and multifaceted contemporary discussions. Through post-colonial theoretical standpoints and creative outputs, many Pacific artists have sought ... -
The view from nowhere
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can 3D-modelled and 3D-printed dioramas, sculptures and interactive digital artwork be used to explore my thesis that the Enlightenment/Counter- Enlightenment dialectic forms the core structure of ...
