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    Final Fantasy
    Ficarra, Travis John ( 2021)
    The central research focus of Final Fantasy is on the liminal realm of the digital image. This is examined through the lens of the virtual and encompasses the perspectival and visual metaphor of the window and frame. Exploring the space of the digital image through the medium of painting, Final Fantasy conceptualizes a glass-like transparent veil as parergonal surface, a site of tension between the inside and the outside. A threshold as both boundary and bridge. Oscillations between painting and the screen, transferral between virtual space and flatness, and their relationship to view and perspective are central elements of the research project; to examine the digital image within/against the idiom of painting, to tug at the veil between a flat plane and a virtual space is at the core of Final Fantasy.
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    Infinite spaces of the Beloved
    Dadfar, Farnaz ( 2019)
    Infinite Spaces of the Beloved recuperates certain characteristics of Persian Sufi poetry and Farsi literature as contemporary artistic material. In exploring the relationship between the poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and his spiritual teacher and friend Shams-i-Tabrizi, this project attempts to experientially re-present certain aspects of Islamic mysticism through frameworks of contemporary post-conceptual art. More specifically, it will identify parallels and connections between these radically fictionalised, hypothetical and materially-infinite, as well as profoundly uncertain forms and contemporary experiences. Infinite Spaces of the Beloved articulates twenty-first century experiences of being through the creative possibilities located within hybrid cultural forms and languages. By activating meanings and nonsenses created through linguistic diasporas—using fragmented text and sound as a means of incarnating otherness, deterritorialisation and displacement—the research imagines utopic alternatives to the increasingly brutal and dystopic realities of twenty-first century existence.