This multiple-case study examined the factors that influence activist artists in the production of their work. Four artists who were well established in their careers took part. The research was designed to gain insight into what motivates artists to become activists. The research methodology was rooted in qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological traditions with a descriptive, interpretative and exploratory approach, using data collected from in-depth interviews. This study sought to explore and synthesize common patterns and similarities of activist artists. Seven themes emerged: identity, place, and personality as style, life experience, world issues, community and change. Regarding activist artists using a variety of what is typically considered “style” to present their work, this study concluded that there are similarities that support the notion that activist artists can be seen as a group. / Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2010-01-27 15:59:37.792

This thesis is a selective history and critical analysis of collaborations and orthodox models of authorship in international art after 1960. Artistic collaboration in the late 1960s and during the 1970s occupied a special position: redefinitions of art and of artistic collaboration intersected. The thesis focuses on artistic collaborations that came to notice in the 1970s, locating them within the evolution of post-object art, conceptual art, installations, Earth Art, Art and Body Art. (For complete abstract open document)

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universiteit Delft, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190).

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universiteit Delft, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190).

Thesis advisor: Kathleen E. Newman. Includes bibliographic references (p. 320-340).

The notion of information space (iSpace) is that a collective context of transmitters and receivers can serve as a medium to share, exchange, and apply data and knowledge between a group of human beings or software agents. Inhabiting this space requires a perception of its dimensions, limits, and an understanding of the way data is diffused between inhabitants. One of the important aspects of iSpace is that it expands the limits of communication between distributed designers allowing them to carry out tasks that were very difficult to accomplish with the diverse, but not well integrated current communication technologies. In architecture, design team members, often rely on each others' expertise to review and problem solve design issues as well as interact with each other for critic, and presentations. This process is called Collaborative Design. Applying this process of collaboration to the iSpace to serve as a supplementary medium of communication, rather than a replacement for it, and understanding how design team members can use it to enhance the effectiveness of the design process and increase the efficiency of communication, is the main focus of this research. The first chapter will give an overview of the research and define the objectives and the scope of it as well as giving a background on the evolving technological media in design practice. This chapter will also give a summary of some case studies for collaborative design projects as real examples to introduce the subject. The second chapter of this research will study the collaborative design activities with respect to the creative problem solving, the group behaviour, and the information flow between members. It will also examine the technical and social problems with the distributed collaboration. The third chapter will give a definition of the iSpace and analyze its components (epistemological, utilitarian, and cultural) based on research done by others. It will also study the impact of the iSpace on the design process in general and on the architectural product in particular. The fourth chapter will be describing software programs written as prototypes for this research that allow for realtime and non-realtime collaboration over the internet, tailored specifically to suit the design team use to facilitate distributed collaboration in architecture. These prototypes are : 1. pinUpBoard (realtime shared display board for pin-ups) 2. sketchBoard (realtime whiteboarding application with multisessions) 3. mediaBase (shared database management system) 4. teamCalendar (shared interactive calendar on the internet) 5. talkSpace (organized forums for discussions) / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

InterDraw is an art program that facilitates the artistic collaboration of multiple users. The goal of this collaboration is the creation of one unique computer image that represents a combination of the ideas and images provided by each of the users. InterDraw extends the already collaborative nature of the World Wide Web through the use of the Java programming language, which provides InterDraw with its cross-platform capabilities. Previously, collaborative art-like programs have been developed for specific operating systems or environments. This limitation prohibits any collaboration with users from other operating systems or environments. InterDraw breaks this limitation by using the power of Java to provide program access from any computer with an Internet connection and a Java enabled browser. The InterDraw clients collaborate by transforming objects drawn by a user into compressed binary strings that are then transported over the Internet to a server application. This server maintains a database of artist contributions and updates all other InterDraw clients collaborating on the same image. These binary strings provide a reliable transmission format that allows the drawn objects to be recreated by the InterDraw clients. Through user testing, InterDraw has been shown to provide an effective and entertaining forum for the creation of collaborative, dynamic images.

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Thesis (MMus) – Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis considers the creative process involved in the composition and performance of new music for the horn. It sets out to describe the challenges and opportunities for composers and performers in this process and the value of collaboration between the two parties. There is a limited body of chamber music that includes the horn in South Africa, possibly because composers are not sufficiently acquainted with the complexities of this instrument and are hesitant to embark on a journey into the ‘unknown’. With few South African horn players devoting themselves to the performance of chamber music and particularly new music, little engagement has taken place between horn players and composers in the pursuit of new, idiomatic works for this instrument. This precipitated the researcher’s investigation into the composer-performer collaborative process, resulting in three commissions for chamber music including horn by South African composers Antoni Schonken, Keith Moss and Allan Stephenson. The collaborative process was central to these commissions in order to promote the concept of idiomatic horn writing. This research comprised three case studies, each documenting the creative process surrounding each commissioned work from inception of the work through the compositional process and rehearsals leading up to a performance. In order to generate a detailed report on each case study, data were collected throughout by means of reflective journaling and audio recordings, supplemented by interviews with participant composers and performers. The research revealed numerous technical intricacies composers need to be familiar with when writing for horn, and which may not be addressed in orchestration texts or other literature. Horn players may also be confronted with unconventional writing with new musical and technical challenges. Collaboration was shown to be of immense value in guiding the composer towards appropriate and effective writing for the horn, with the expertise of the performer being a source of knowledge for the composer. One of the main benefits that accrued to the performer through the collaborative process with the composer was the acquisition of valuable interpretative insights into the work to be performed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis stel ondersoek in na die kreatiewe proses rakende die samestelling en uitvoering van nuwe horingmusiek. Daar word gesoek na ‘n beskrywing van die uitdagings en geleenthede waarmee komponiste en kunstenaars in so ‘n proses te make het en die waarde van samewerking tussen bogenoemde twee partye. In Suid-Afrika is daar ‘n beperkte hoeveelheid kamermusiek waarby die horing ingesluit word. Die rede wat hiervoor aangevoer kan word, is dat komponiste waarskynlik nie oor genoegsame kennis beskik rakende die fynere tegniese aspekte van horingspel nie. Hul is gevolglik huiwerig om met die onbekende te eksperimenteer. Aangesien weinig Suid-Afrikaanse horingspelers belangstel in die uitvoering van kamer- en veral nuwe musiek, bestaan daar min betrekkinge tussen horingspelers en komponiste in die soeke na nuwe, eiesoortige werke vir hierdie instrument. Bogenoemde het die navorser aangespoor tot ‘n ondersoek na ‘n komponis-kunstenaars medewerkingsproses. Die eindproduk was drie kamermusiek-opdragwerke (horing ingesluit) deur die volgende Suid-Afrikaanse komponiste: Antoni Schonken, Keith Moss en Allan Stephenson. Die medewerkingsproses was van kardinale belang tydens die skep van hierdie opdragwerke met die oog op die bevordering van eiesoortige horingkomposisies. Die navorsing het uit drie gevallestudies bestaan: die eerste studie het die kreatiewe proses van elke opdragwerk gedokumenteer vanaf die eerste pogings regdeur die komposisieproses en vooraf-repetisies tot die uitvoering van die werk. Data is deurgaans deur middel van reflektiewe joernaalinskrywings en oudio-opnames versamel ten einde’n gedetailleerde verslag van elke gevallestudie daar te stel. Bogenoemde is aangevul deur onderhoude met die betrokke komponiste en kunstenaars. Die navorsing het verskeie tegniese ingewikkeldhede uitgewys waarvan komponiste bewus moet wees wanneer daar vir die horing gekomponeer word. Hierdie fynere aspekte word dikwels nie in orkestrasietekste of ander literatuur behandel en bespreek nie. Horingspelers kan ook gekonfonteer word met onkonvensionele komposisies met nuwe musikale en tegniese uitdagings. Die samewerkingsproses tussen komponiste en kunstenaars was uiters waardevol; aangesien dit die komponis gehelp het om toepaslike en sinvolle werke vir die horing te komponeer met behulp van die kunstenaar se kundigheid en kennis. Deur die loop van die samewerkingsproses kon die kunstenaar veral baat by die waardevolle wenke van die komponis rakende van die uivoering van die betrokke werk.

Consacrer une recherche monographique à un architecte vivant est un exercice d’autant plus ardu que Claude Parent (né en 1923) œuvra à se mettre en scène, autant dans son travail qu’à travers son activité de critique. Le regard historien le plus détaché ne peut être totalement neutre face à des réalisations souvent peu patinées par la mémoire, bien que parfois déjà patrimonialisées. C’est peut-être le moins volontaire des paradoxes que Claude Parent aima à construire autour de sa personne. À travers ses très nombreux écrits, il se construit un personnage de scandale et, pour cela, s’est tôt présenté comme marginalisé par la profession. Il se revendiqua néanmoins « homme de chantier », humble devant la force de l’acte architectural. Cette étude se situe dans le genre consacré de la monographie. Celui-ci est cependant revisité par un croisement avec l’étude des acteurs de la profession d’architecte à l’époque où Claude Parent en débat publiquement, avec l’analyse des structures de maîtrise d’ouvrage et de maîtrise d’œuvre, et avec l’étude des politiques d’urbanisme dans lesquelles l'architecte inscrit ses réalisations autant que ses spéculations théoriques. Cette recherche s’attarde aussi sur la complexité des rapports normatifs que la critique architecturale entretient avec les pratiques projectuelles et constructives. Claude Parent s’étant pensé autant en architecte qu’en homme de médias, sa stature professionnelle et publique composite, ainsi que son regard sur l’époque, non moins complexe, éclairent particulièrement bien les décennies 1950-1990, encore peu étudiées en histoire de l’architecture / To dedicate a monographic research to an alive architect is a difficult exercise, particularly since Claude Parent (born in 1923) himself contributed to his own myth-making, as much in his work as through his activity as a critic. The most detached historian outlook cannot be totally neutral in front of buildings often little skated by memory, although sometimes already considered like « heritage ». It is maybe the least voluntary paradoxe which Claude Parent liked to build around his person. Through his numerous articles, he builds himself a character of scandal and, because of this, was somewhat marginalized by the profession. He claimed to be nevertheless a « man of construction », humble in front of the strength of the architectural act. This study follows the general practice of the monography. It is however revisited through the study of the actors of the architectural profession when Claude Parent debated publicly the subject, with the analysis of the commissioners and architects, and with the study of the urban politics in which the architect places his buildings and his theoretical speculations. This research also questions the complexity of the normative relationships which architectural criticism entertains with design and constructive practices. Claude Parent considers himself like an architect as well as a man of medias. His professional, public and composite stature, as well as his outlook on the period, more complex, shed light on the decades 1950-1990, still little studied in the history of architecture