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End date: 2017 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Masters Research thesis × Subject: installation ×

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    Time after time: an exploration of lineages of social space and materiality
    Eaton, Jeremy William ( 2017)
    This practice-led research project is concerned with investigating lineages of social space and its associated materialities constituted by homosexual men of the past. The project, which is reflected on in the ensuing paper, was developed over two years and has taken form as an emergent sculptural and spatial investigation that considers how an artistic practice can constitute a form of materialist historiography. The final outcomes of this research are comprised of a written dissertation and an installation which includes prints, video and sculptural objects. Each element of the installation elaborates on a proposition reflected on through the dissertation to consider trans-historical relationality; the performative and ephemeral establishment of lineages in the present through installation; and the literary evocation of homosexual desire through abstraction and codes. The exploration of a series of ‘texts’ has informed the propositions that have been developed through the studio research to consider the question: if and or how can an artistic practice act as a materialist method for evoking lineages of homosexual social-space?
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    Mishandling the human: virtual surveillance and actualised error
    Nicholas, Shane Leigh ( 2017)
    This project is a practiced-based inquiry into the relationship between physical reality and virtual worlds in a period where digital technology has substantially transformed how we interact with our surroundings. The research investigates this relationship with emphasis on the interdependent nature of neural networks, extended consciousness and online surveillance. The research explores the increasing use of digital surveillance and the potential for the surrounding world to be restructured on feedback derived from algorithms. As the neural networks filtering such data are programmed with values reflecting the ideology of liberal capitalism, the results will inevitably be skewed in favour of this perspective. As smart devices and their users are contained within this feedback loop the paper considers how these systems of surveillance influence the perception of human identity. The resulting work responds to the use of surveillance technology, focusing on gaps in information and distortions in representation that occur through this filtering and assumed information. The works question the nature of online surveillance from a posthuman perspective and explore the potential problems that can occur with the adoption of cavalier attitudes towards these technologies. I have created three systems to reproduce the human form based on the mishandling of data. The resulting forms echo the fundamental contradictions inherent in these systems. The artwork produced through this process draws from limitations common to neural networks that process collected data. By decontextualizing, filtering, fragmenting and reconstructing data to create distorted versions of the original, the resulting sculptures present a vision of how systems alter subject matter when rendering a model from reality.