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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 ... -
The Piki Toi
(AP2 Open Access Journals, 2020)Piki Toi is a project that seeks to create artist/poet role models and heroes from within a marginalised community who have experienced homelessness and incarceration, who can go on to inspire others to acknowledge their ... -
The two heavens of tufuga: Creative expressions of tufuga Niue
(Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi & Lagi Maama, 2020)TAGATA NIUE Tagata Niue are not a homogeneous group. Rather there are two main groupings – tagata Niue in the diaspora that reside in New Zealand and Australia - the largest group are resident in New Zealand; and tagata ... -
Apentimento
(2021)INTRODUCTION: I started this masters project (like most painters I believe) because I needed a studio. I like to have a studio because I value time away from people and because I enjoy the challenge of painting. Painting ... -
Progress report : the Real Time Web Series (2016-2020)
(Oral History in New Zealand, 2021-02-01)The Real Time Web Series (RTWS) traverses between a process video and oral history podcast. The RTWS is a project that launched in 2016 by Dr. Bobby ‘Berst’ Hung. As an artist, researcher, and teacher, his objective is to ... -
'droplet' : [how can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?]
(2020-11-27)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?’ ABSTRACT: I am an artist exploring mixed media practices, including photography and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Animating absence : future disasters in art and architecture
(2019-12-04)From the lambency of early civilisation the representation of the ruin has existed as an index of greatness lost. This representation manifest since Babylonian times has existed to open a fantastic world of wakeful dreaming ... -
Looking through the eyes of others : an investigation into methodologies of 360 film making
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: Do the pre-existing methodologies in film and theatre lend themselves for the development of narrative content in first-person point of view Spherical Video? ABSTRACT: This Thesis represents my ... -
Public art and urban mental health
(2019-01-18)Global context Urbanization and its discontents Urbanicity and the mind Urbanization and mental disorder Urban mental health From the clinic to the public realm Thinking at scale Artists as clinicians Jasmeen Patheja ... -
The Piki Project : building capabilities within the homeless community
(2019-04-16)How can the application of design thinking and technology empower a creative community that has lived experience of homelessness to become economically self-determining? The Piki project is a partnership with Lifewise ... -
How is the ethnic identity of female Māori and Pacific artists constructed? : a study of life stories using vertical layers of discourse
(2018-08)Participants: 6 female artists of Māori and/or Pacific descent • Video ethnography: Audio-visual technology used to record participants engaging in their creative practice • Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (MIA): ... -
The future of technological advancements in public art
(Western States Arts Federation (Denver, Colorado), 2017-11)My talk is called “The Potential for Public Art in the Digital Near Future.” I just want to say near future, so we're not thinking 20 to 30 years ahead. Over the last two decades, I think it is fair to say that lots of ... -
Collaborative housing as a response to the housing crisis in Auckland
(Unitec ePress, 2018-07-25)RESEARCH QUESTION: If housing is a PSS [Product/Service System] in transition to which the paradigm of the functional economy can be applied, how do we redefine the role of designers who want to work in this field? According ... -
‘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, ... -
Keeping watch : fabricating a space of hesitation
(2018)In 2011 the MV Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Stacks of containers fell from the ship and household goods, industrial items and oil washed into the sea coating beaches and birds. ... -
The space connecting - meaningful exchange : exploring aspects of the making and apprehension of artwork through material investigation and participation
(2017)This research project investigates the mechanics and processes of an artists’ practice in conjunction with the convention that art acts as a vehicle of communication. How well an artist communicates their thoughts, ... -
Milan 2033 : seeds of the future
(2014-05)In 2013, the Politecnico di Milano celebrates its 150th anniversary. The closing event scheduled is a major exhibition at the Triennale di Milano, entitled Milano 2033. Seeds of the future. On this occasion, the University ... -
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 ...
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