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Access Type
Open Access
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2010
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
Art, Photography, Light, Video, Digital Culture, Popular Culture
Abstract
Different Ways to Record Light is a series of photographs, videos and objects that explore the affect that popular culture has on how I perceive, and make sense of the world around me. By using light as a thematic and metaphoric subject this work opens up a discourse about the role that images and technology play in our perceptual lives. This thesis paper will give a theoretical, contextual and historical framework for the concepts explored in my studio practice.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/1277309
First Advisor
Young Min Moon
Second Advisor
Shona Macdonald
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