Search for dissertations about: "public space and art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words public space and art.

2. 1. The Street Art World

   Author : Peter Bengtsen; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; public space; contemporary art; art market; gadekunst; gatukonst; Faile; Banksy; public art; graffiti; street art; urban art; street art world; The Street Art World;

   Abstract : In recent years, street art has become embedded in popular culture and received growing attention from the art market and art institutions. Work by street artists has entered galleries, auction houses and museums, and some artists have been given the opportunity to create large-scale sanctioned public art projects. READ MORE

4. 2. Re-negotiating social space : Public art installations and interactive experience

   Author : Linda Ryan Bengtsson; Miyase Christensen; André Jansson; Karin Becker; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Interactivity; interactive art; public space; social space; locative media artworks; interactive interfaces; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Digital media technologies are becoming increasingly and extensively integrated into our way of living. We communicate, inform and entertain ourselves through media technologies in disparate spaces. When digital technology is integrated into our everyday environment, the border between media interfaces and physical environments is blurred. READ MORE

5. 3. Up the Stylish Staircase : Situating the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in a Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art World

   Author : Charlotta Nordström; Tomas Björk; Maria Görts; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Fürstenberg Gallery; The Fürstenberg Art Collection; Pontus Fürstenberg; Göthilda Fürstenberg; Gothenburg art ; Swedish Art; Nineteenth-Century Art; Patronage; Art Collection; The Opponents; Collecting Practices; Exhibition Practices; Blanch’s Art Salon; konstvetenskap; Art History;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the establishment (in 1885), the influence, the critical reception, and the legacy of the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the gallery and the collection were products and producers of specific art-historical situations, within a particular nineteenth-century Swedish art world. READ MORE

6. 4. Concrete Fashion: Dress, Art, and Engagement in Public Space

   Author : Kajsa G. Eriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; fashion design; contemporary art; performance; dressed body; documentation; artistic research; engagement; public space; identity; fashion design;

   Abstract : This dissertation is an example of artistic research that explores the border between fashion design and contemporary art, in order to place situated bodily practices within the larger field of exploration and ideology, and to discover new formats. The activities engaged in explore the dressed body as a contemporary art medium, and the performances are carried out in public space and within everyday life. READ MORE

7. 5. Effects of Art and Design on Orientation in Healthcare Architecture : A study of wayfinding and wayshowing in a Swedish hospital setting

   Author : Muna Ibrahim; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; health-care architecture; hospital design; interior design; public art; wayfinding; orientation; affordance; familiarity; wayshowing; heterogeneity; temporality;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of interior design elements, especially artwork, in way-searchers’ wayfinding and orientation in hospital environments. The thesis considers the way-searcher’s background and the impact of cultural belonging, occupation, memories, aesthetic preferences, and language, and the influence that such factors might have on the perception of the hospital environment and its guiding elements. READ MORE