Search for dissertations about: "actants"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word actants.
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1. EXPANDED CHOREOGRAPHY : Shifting the agency of movement in The Artificial Nature Project and 69 positions
Abstract : Through two books and a series of video documentations of live performances Mette Ingvartsen makes choreography into a territory of physical, artistic and social experimentation. The Artificial Nature Series focusses on how relations between human and non-human agency can be explored and reconfigured through choreography. READ MORE
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2. Modalities of Place: On Polarisation and Exclusion in Concepts of Place and in Site-Specific Art
Abstract : In this thesis the notion of place is studied by way of investigating the “non-place” which is excluded or opposed, whenever a place is defined. “Non-place” is used here as a meta-concept, covering various recurring types of opposition to “place,” and it therefore represents a profoundly incoherent spect-rum of realities and concepts. READ MORE
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3. Becoming Cyborg Composer : The Ecology of Digital Music Composition Didaktik
Abstract : The aim of this licentiate thesis is to explore the sociomaterial relationality of music composition education with digital hardware/software and its outcomes. Two studies were conducted interleaved as original articles in the thesis. READ MORE
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4. What comes to count as sustainable in Rosendal? : a study of how sustainability is being reproduced in an urban sociomaterial assemblage
Abstract : Urban districts around the world are increasingly developed to be sustainable. In this thesis Iexplore what comes to count as sustainable in Rosendal, a developing urban district inUppsala, Sweden. I view Rosendal as an example of contemporary urban sustainability. READ MORE
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5. Negotiating 'Culture', Assembling a Past: the Visual, the Non-Visual and the Voice of the Silent Actant
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the processes surrounding the creation of a scientific visual representation, where, both in the practical creation of this visualisation and in the way it is communicated, those actants which amount to what we call ‘culture’ or cultural value, are enrolled or ignored. Trying to answer if a broader set of non-visual cultural properties can be identified and their influence described, and if history can be visualised without displacing our knowledge of the past in favour of a popular representation thereof, I trace the interaction between client, artist, technology and target audience. READ MORE