Browsing Creative Practice Dissertations and Theses by Date Published
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Stoking the flames of the digital fireplace. How can the practice of vlogging contribute to an understanding of the presentation of self in contemporary oral history making?
(2020-08-04)Stoking the Flames of the Digital Fireplace is a creative practice based project with an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic focus in which I experiment with and analyse the medium of video-logging (vlogging) on the Youtube ... -
A life between us : exploring embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following through dance
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can dance contribute to a better understanding of the embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following? ABSTRACT: Society’s investment in the leader-as-hero ... -
Auckland 2017-2018 : a year in the life of an international student from Beijing
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can illustration visually communicate an experience of living in a different culture in Auckland, New Zealand (NZ)? ABSTRACT: New Zealand is one of the most beautiful island countries in the ... -
The view from nowhere
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can 3D-modelled and 3D-printed dioramas, sculptures and interactive digital artwork be used to explore my thesis that the Enlightenment/Counter- Enlightenment dialectic forms the core structure of ... -
Primary : film adaptation in theory and practice
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How do all the aspects of the filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to the editing suite, impact the outcome and overall ‘success’ of the adaptation? ABSTRACT: The adaptation of works for film has ... -
Planet of the Long White Cloud : science fiction cinema in New Zealand cultural identity
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the science fiction genre be used to explore cultural identities within New Zealand? ABSTRACT: Stargazing in the wilds of New Zealand is a wondrous thing. The cool, clean air chills your ... -
From text to audio-visual : how might academics establish a framework for critical analysis using audio-visual essays?
(2019)The audio-visual essay is a particular form of videographic research that has become popular among scholars and amateur critics in the field of film criticism. Where the written word has sufficed for much of the last century ... -
A close look at Chinese immigrants in New Zealand : my language, my identity
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1 Do their language skills affect the identity of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand? 2 If so, what is the main impact and how it works? If not, then why do Chinese immigrants show a diverse attitude ... -
Urbanize
(2018)Painter Tira Walsh remembers the introduction to technology in the school’s curriculum in the late 90’s. The intrigue in this manipulative tool for creating hybrid images combined with an engagement in a discussion of ... -
Erysichthon
(2018)I have always been attracted to the asymmetrical, the uncanny, the mutated, the deviation, and the odd. These preoccupations were made manifest through my drawing practice. Friends, family, and acquaintances would often ... -
Mana mokopuna mai i te waharoa ki te wahakura : activating sacred potential for mokopuna through raranga and tikanga pā harakeke
(2017)This kaupapa rangahau seeks to establish the application of te reo o te pā harakeke me ona tikanga as a tangible model for oranga whānau and the weaving of wahakura as a way for mokopuna to access rongoā. It is an articulation ...
