/library/oar/handle/123456789/1710 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:30:09 GMT 2025-12-26T14:30:09Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/1752 Title: Regard : a research through history, culture, anthropology and artists on the power of the stare : an attempt to challenge the starer in overcoming the awkwardness between the starer and staree Abstract: The acculturation and education of a society infused with social regulations lends a complex background to this thesis, laying its focus on how a society interacts and stares at a human variation, a novel body. Much of the research found from disability studies was cast-off, as it was neither balanced nor positive, or conducive to challenging change. Looking at artists such as Frida Kahlo and Francesca Woodman, whose works are projected images of themselves, honest and mystifying, thoroughly in control of how they appear to others. To Christine Sun Kim whose take on the etiquette of sound challenges our social regulations she has had to comply with notwithstanding her having been born deaf. Marina Abramovic takes an emphatic perspective to the stare and infuses it with a nurturing energy. Whilst Joel-Peter Witkin manipulates and intrigues our stare, Mary Duffy and Sandie Yi project their prognosis to their audiences switching the doctor-patient role. Regarding the forceful power of the stare throughout the ages from mythology, to medieval witch hunting, to the gentrification of the medical world, providing us with the medical stare we have today. Description: M.A.FADA Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/1752 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/1748 Title: Prosopagnosia : self-image as a glitch : commenting on issues of identity and self-representation within the realm of Facebook through the exploration and production of glitch [or glitch-alike] art Abstract: An investigation of the ways in which Social Networking Sites in general and Facebook in particular have influenced practices of identity performance and self-representation within the digital domain, through the exploration of artistic practices that seek to reflect and criticize our massive hysteria with on-line self-management, engaging the Network itself, in this case Facebook originated content, both imagery and text, in the actual creative process. All these, through the distorting prism of Glitch Art, which is chosen as both an aesthetic idiom and a theoretical framework to serve the metaphor of “prosopagnosia”, a cognitive disorder of face perception, that stands as a key concept for the evolution of the project. Description: M.A.FADA Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/1748 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/1745 Title: Art as a political choreography through social media : an investigation of social media as a tool and space for art to drive social narratives Abstract: This practice-based research investigates how an artistic intervention could trigger the remaking of the experience of the community through social media tools. This would be a role of political choreography in which art becomes intrinsically connected to life. Art and the experiencing of art, could be, in principle “used to radically overhaul our very ill social organism” (Krause, 2011) and mediate between social alienation and social activism. This research was held within the contemporary art context by studying the implications of social practices in the contemporary social media spaces with reference to the scholarly fields of philosophy and sociology. The project highlights the bearing that such an artistic intervention would have on the consumption of interaction amongst people. This is addressed through an investigation of social media activism and social media art projects with special reference to Cypriot activist Mihalis Eleftheriou and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Critical readings brought together theories about activism, culture, politics, space and leadership within the writings by Paolo Gerbaudo, Clay Shirky, Evgeny Morozov, Anthony Giddens, Karl Marx, Giorgio Agamben, Pierre Clastres, Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Grosz and Michael Foucault, amongst others. These contributed to a thorough investigation of social media as a tool and space for art to drive social narratives that promote new forms of participatory and interactive collective activism. The research conducted will be presented within a joint exhibition with fellow Masters’ students of Fine Arts in Digital Arts for viewing, discussion and assessment. Description: M.A.FADA Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/1745 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/1739 Title: Cinema is a dark place : an investigation into fear, darkness and the spectacle in cinema and installation art Abstract: This research aims to analyze the relationship between Fear, Darkness and Horror in Cinema while investigating how these are perceived and experienced through Installation Art. This was done through the study of various fields, namely, studies related to what fear is and our biological, and psychological response to it, investigations on darkness, its’ link to fear and the horror genre, and the experiences of cinema as a place where darkness can be encountered. The relationship between fear and excitement in the spectacle is also explored. Cinema was analyzed and after deconstructing it to its basic elements, these were examined individually. All of these subjects were brought together with the aim of producing an artwork, which would lead the audience to question the idea of fear as excitement in the genre of horror through the independent fundamental elements of cinema. Description: M.A.FADA Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/1739 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z