Search for dissertations about: "art activities"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 103 swedish dissertations containing the words art activities.

  2. 6. The Convaluation of Performance Art : A Study of Peer Recognition Among Performance Artists

    Author : Edvin Sandström; Patrik Aspers; Anna Lund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Convaluation; Valuation; Evaluation; Performance Art; Art Theory; Ethnography; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Processes and forms of valuation, evaluation and valorization are important for bringing contemporary social life in order. In this thesis, I study the values of the small and autonomous avant-garde of the art-world, performance art. READ MORE

  4. 7. Learning Science Through Aesthetic Experience in Elementary School : Aesthetic Judgement, Metaphor and Art

    Author : Britt Jakobson; Per-Olof Wickman; Jan Schoultz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : aesthetic experience; aesthetic judgement; art activities; continuity; Dewey; elementary school; imagination; learning; meaning-making; practical epistemology analysis; reconstruction; science; spontaneous metaphors; transformation; Wittgenstein.; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; didaktik; Didactics;

    Abstract : This thesis considers the role of aesthetic meaning-making in elementary school science learning. Children’s aesthetic experiences are traced through their use of aesthetic judgements, spontaneous metaphors and art activities. The thesis is based on four empirical studies: the first two examining children’s language use, i.e. READ MORE

  5. 8. Humanizing Technology Through Post-Digital Art

    Author : Vygandas Vegas Simbelis; Kristina Höök; John Bowers; KTH; []
    Keywords : Humanization of technology; post-digital aesthetics; abstraction; materiality; immateriality; interpretative digitality; hacking; disruption; accelerationism; interactive art; interaction design; human-computer interaction.; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction; Media Technology; Medieteknik; Computer Science; Datalogi; Electrical Engineering; Elektro- och systemteknik;

    Abstract : I draw upon the idea of the post digital to create (1) art for humanization of technology and (2) art as manifestations of digital qualities in the physical world, e.g., through digital-analog convergence, or through enriching our experiences with hybrid constellations of techniques, concepts and aesthetics. READ MORE

  6. 9. Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

    Author : Agnes Löfgren; Leelo Keevallik; Angelika Linke; Emily Hofstetter; Beatrice Szczepek Reed; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Opera rehearsals; Social interaction; Multimodal interaction analysis; Ethnomethodological conversation analysis; Depictions; Multimodal gestalts; Proposals; Joint decision-making; Deontic rights; Joint activities; Co-operative action; Interactional histories; Operarepetitioner; Social interaktion; Multimodal interaktionsanalys; Etnometodologisk samtalsanalys; Gestaltningar; Multimodala gestalter; Förslag; Gemensamt beslutsfattande; Deontiska rättigheter; Gemensamma aktiviteter; Interaktionella historier;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, 2016), a communicative strategy based on iconicity, to create performance bodies, i.e. what the performers should do on stage to music. READ MORE

  7. 10. Performing Power : The Political Masks of King Gustav III of Sweden (1771-1792)

    Author : Maria Berlova; Willmar Sauter; Roland Lysell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustav III; theatricality; theatrical playing; staging; pageant; performative communication; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : King Gustav III founded the Swedish National Theater and Opera, participated in the court theater as playwright, director and actor and he was rightly called the Theater King. The King’s passion for acting was perceived in the past as a psychological weakness, which won him the appellation of wimp (fjant). READ MORE