AI-generativa bildkonst verktyg använder sig av generative adversarial networks (GAN) för att skapa bilder. Generative adversarial networks blir desto bättre ju mer information den förses med. Denna studie undersöker hur teknologiskt accepterat det är med AI-genererade bildkonst verktyg med hjälp av modellen Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Syftet med studien är att undersöka om unga konstnärers syn och inställning på AI-genererad bildkonst och verktygets framfart samt om de anser att det är accepterat. Studien genomfördes med små n-studier med semistrukturerade intervjuer för att få en rik och detaljerad beskrivning om acceptansen kring AI-generativa bildkonst verktyg. Studiens intervjufrågor byggdes upp för att besvara TAM2s olika delar. Respondenterna var konstnärer från Sverige och valdes ut genom bekvämlighetsurval kombinerat med snowball sampling. Konstnärerna som intervjuades under studien var positivt inställda till att använda AI-bildverktygen som inspiration och hjälpmedel till deras egna konst, och de flesta konstnärerna ansåg inte att AI var ett hot för dem eftersom de höll på med fysiska konstverk, och såg AI mer som ett hot för digitala konstnärer. Dessutom tyckte de flesta konstnärerna i studien att även om det är en själv som har skrivit in instruktionerna till AI-bildverktygen för att få en genererad bild, så är det diskutabelt om man kan göra anspråk på verket. / AI generated visual art tools use generative adversarial networks (GAN) to create pictures and digital art. Generative adversarial networks get better the more information they are provided with. This study investigates how technologically accepted it is with AI generated visual art tools using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This study was carried out with small n-studies with semi-structured interviews to get rich and detailed description of the acceptance of AI generative visual art tools. The study’s interview questions were built to answer the TAM2-model different parts. The respondents were artists from Sweden and were selected through convenience sampling combined with snowball sampling. The purpose of the study is to investigate how young artists view and attitude towards AI generated visual art and the progress of the tool and whether they believe it is accepted. The artists interviewed during the study were positive about using the AI generated art tool as an inspiration and aid to their own art, and most of the artists did not consider AI as a threat to them because they were doing physical artwork, seeing AI more as a threat to digital artists. In addition, most of the artists in the study felt that even if one has entered the instructions to the AI generating tools themselves to get a generated image, it is debatable whether one can claim the work. This thesis is written in Swedish.

This heuristic research project examines my personal use of art making as a form of self-care while interning in a pediatric hospital. The review of the literature investigates the concept of self-care and the use of art making as a therapeutic outlet for working art therapists, for professionals in the healthcare field, and for art therapy students working specifically in hospital settings. The literature suggests that self-care is a necessary process, that self-care is not just for the physical self, but also for one’s mental health. The literature also indicates that art therapists have found that art making as a specific self-care modality is demanded. The research then contains my own personal use and record of art making as a way to support myself while working as an art therapy trainee at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. I gave myself the structure of making response art once a week on site for 15 weeks. The data includes said weekly art responses, as well as any written responses or observations made during art making. The patterns I found pertain to similarity in the materials used, the visuals created, and the contexts of each image. By actively making response artwork, I was able to deepen my understanding of the importance of art making for the art therapist. In addition, this research highlights the importance and responsibility that comes with self-care as an art therapist, and additionally, heuristic research in art making as a form of active self-care could be especially beneficial for the art therapy student.

Cette thèse propose de renforcer les liens entre les études sur l’œuvre d’art et les recherches sur le curatorial par le biais des études en communication, et plus précisément de l’analyse des interactions qui se déroulent entre les acteur·e·s humain·e·s et autre qu’humain·e·s composant le processus de conception et de réalisation d’une exposition d’arts. L’exposition Femynynytees, dont j’étais la co-curatrice, a été à l’affiche durant l’été 2018 à Montréal et fut spécialement conçue comme le terrain de recherche de cette expérience. Tout au long de la création de Femynynytees, j’ai pu observer un phénomène que j’ai appelé le devenir-œuvre d’art, auquel cette thèse consacre une attention particulière. Il s’agit d’un phénomène relationnel dans le cadre duquel l’œuvre, telle que créée par l’artiste, est mise en relation avec le « curatorial » (von Bismarck et Rogoff, 2012 ; Martinon, 2013), envisagé ici comme les connaissances produites pendant la réalisation d’un projet curatorial spécifique. Ces rencontres engendrent des transitions qui permettent que l’œuvre soit comprise non pas comme un objet, mais comme un trajet (Souriau, 2009), devenant ainsi un processus qui peut donc être défini comme étant, en même temps, œuvre et curatorial. Pour observer ce phénomène, j’adopte une approche théorique liée aux nouveaux matérialismes, en proposant que le curatorial soit conçu comme un ensemble de « pratiques matérielles-discursives » (Barad, 2003). Ces pratiques sont à l’origine des changements qui se produisent avec l’œuvre lorsqu’elle est mise en contact avec un processus curatorial. Selon cette perspective, les artistes, les curateur·e·s, les visiteur·e·s, les choix d’installation, les espaces d’exposition, et tout autre élément lié à la mise en branle d’un tel évènement, font partie du curatorial et sont ainsi parties prenantes de ses pratiques matérielles-discursives. Par ailleurs, cette recherche se concentre sur les pratiques en arts médiatiques, des œuvres envisagées comme matériellement plus perméables au curatorial par la relative flexibilité de leur processus de matérialisation, ainsi que par l’aspect collaboratif du système dans lequel elles sont généralement produites. Le terme « arts médiatiques » est prédominant au Québec et fait référence aux pratiques mobilisant des technologies médiatiques – soit des technologies électriques, électroniques ou numériques – dans la création d’une œuvre. D’un point de vue méthodologique, le devenir-œuvre d’art est analysé à partir d’une perspective ventriloque (Cooren, 2013) de la communication, une approche permettant d’identifier la complexité des voix (Mazzei et Jackson, 2012) qui participent de ce phénomène. Suite à l’examen des conversations tenues pendant les visites d’atelier et les réunions organisées entre curatrices et artistes, des courriels échangés entre artistes et curatrices et des entretiens réalisés avec une trentaine de visiteur·e·s, cette thèse montre comment s’opèrent concrètement les mises en relation du devenir-œuvre dans le cas d’une exposition d’arts médiatiques. Il s’agit donc d’une recherche située (Haraway, 1988), relationnelle et processuelle qui positionne la communication comme constitutive de toute réalité (Cooren, 2012). / This dissertation aims to strengthen the existing dialogue between art studies and curatorial studies through communication sciences, and more precisely, through the analysis of the interactions that take place between human and other-than-human actors composing the process of conception and realization of an art exhibition. The exhibition Femynytees, that I co-curated, was on display during the summer of 2018 in Montreal and was specially conceived as the fieldwork for this experience. Throughout the creation of Femynytees, I was able to observe a phenomenon that I propose to call the becoming-artwork, to which this dissertation devotes particular attention. By this, I mean a relational phenomenon by which the work, as created by the artist, is put in relation with the "curatorial" (von Bismarck and Rogoff, 2012; Martinon, 2013), considered here as a mode of knowledge engendered during the production of a specific curatorial project. This encounter generates transitions in the work that allow it to be understood as a path (Souriau, 2009), thus becoming a process that can be defined as both artwork and curatorial at the same time. To observe this phenomenon, I adopt a theoretical approach, inspired by the new materialisms, which proposes that the curatorial be conceived as a set of “material-discursive practices” (Barad, 2003). These practices are at the origin of the changes that occur with the artwork when it is brought into contact with a particular curatorial process. According to this perspective, artists, curators, visitors, installation choices, exhibition spaces, and any other element related to the setting in motion of such an event, are part of the curatorial and are thus taking part in its material-discursive practices. Moreover, this research focuses on media art practices, as this type of art is considered to be more permeable to the curatorial because of the relative flexibility of its materialization process, as well as the collaborative aspect of the system in which it is generally produced. The term "media arts" refers here to practices that mobilize media technologies – that is, electrical, electronic or digital technologies – in the creation of an artwork. From a methodological point of view, the becoming-artwork is analyzed from a ventriloqual perspective on communication (Cooren, 2013), an approach that makes it possible to identify the complexification of voices (Mazzei and Jackson, 2012) that participate in this phenomenon. Following an analysis of conversations held during studio visits and meetings between curators and artists, emails exchanged between artists and curators, and interviews with 30 of the visitors, this dissertation shows how the fundamental relationships at the heart of the becoming-artworks concretely operate in the case of a media art exhibition. It is thus a situated (Haraway, 1988), relational, and processual research that positions communication as constitutive of all reality (Cooren, 2012).

'Institutional critique' is a term that refers to a range of diverse artistic practices and discourses that emerged at the end of the 1960s and that continue in the present. In spite of their differences, they all share a concern with the institutional conditioning of artists and artworks. Various historicizations of institutional critique (Alberro and Stimson, 2009; Raunig and Ray, 2009; Welchman, 2006) concur that one could distinguish two 'phases': artists of the 1960s and 1970s allegedly investigated the possibilities of an escape towards an 'outside' of the art institution, whereas those of the 1990s analysed the ways in which the artistic subject reproduced the structures of the art institution. Since the beginning of the 2000s various artists and authors have revisited the histories and legacies of institutional critique. This growing interest was triggered by the perceived intensification of a process that began at the end of the 1960s; it refers to the recuperation and neutralization of artistic types of critique by what Boltanski and Chiapello (2005) have called the 'new spirit' of capitalism. In this context, the Austrian philosopher Gerald Raunig and the members of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies have proposed the hypothesis that 'a new phase' of institutional critique was to emerge. However, this proposition was based less on empirical evidence, than on a 'political and theoretical necessity to be found in the logic of institutional critique' (Raunig, 2009, 3). This thesis is a response to this set of circumstances. By asking 'what are the conditions and possibilities of institutional critique?' it investigates the categories of institutional critique's logic. My main argument is that a 'phase change' of institutional critique could and should be understood through the apparatus of Derridean deconstruction. This implies a criticism of the idea that one needs to escape the art institution in order to respond to urgencies stemming from the social, economic, and political realms (Truth Is Concrete Platform, 2012). At the same time, I will also refute the idea that institutional critique is trapped in the art institution (Fraser, 2009a). Institutional critique works on the remainder and rest that necessarily escapes the instituting will and intention of defining and describing in an exhaustive manner the whatness of what (art) is (Boltanski, 2011). I show that between critique and the art institution there is an irreducible relation of symbiosis and cohabitation, and that the deconstructive logic of institutional critique allows it to be both partner and adversary, at the same time, of the art institution.

This dissertation expands upon the definition of eco-visualization artwork. EV was originally defined in 2006 by Tiffany Holmes as a way to display the real time consumption statistics of key environmental resources for the goal of promoting ecological literacy. I assert that the final forms of EV artworks are not necessarily dependent on technology, and can differ in terms of media used, in that they can be sculptural, video-based, or static two-dimensional forms that communicate interpreted environmental information. There are two main categories of EV: one that is predominantly screen-based and another that employs a variety of modes of representation to visualize environmental information. EVs are political acts, situated in a charged climate of rising awareness, operating within the context of environmentalism and sustainability. I discuss a variety of EV works within the frame of ecopsychology, including EcoArtTech’s Eclipse and Keith Deverell’s Building Run; Andrea Polli’s Cloud Car and Particle Falls; Nathalie Miebach’s series, The Sandy Rides; and Natalie Jeremijenko’s Mussel Choir. The range of EV works provided models for my creative project, Sculpting Corn Production, and a foundation from which I developed a creative methodology. Working to defeat my experience of solastalgia, Sculpting Corn Production is a series of discrete paper sculptures focusing on American industrial corn farming. This EV also functions as a way for me to understand our devastated monoculture landscapes and the politics, economics, and related areas of ecology of our food production.

La deuxième moitié du XXè siècle a vu l'explosion de l'ordre des appareils et de leur milieu, la technologie. L'art n'est pas resté à l'abri de cette invasion, et les œuvres ont, elles aussi, commencé de s'appareiller. Ces œuvres appareillées sont dynamiques, indéterminées, interactives, algorithmiques, instables. Nous chercherons ici à suivre cette irruption technologique dans les différents régimes artistiques : au moment de la création de l'œuvre, dans son existence objectale et au moment de sa réception esthétique. Se dessinera alors, peut-être, une forme spécifique à ce que pourrait être un « art technologique ». L'analyse finie, les lignes de fracture posées – la question décisive pourra alors être posée, à défaut d'être tranchée : l'art survit-il à sa collusion avec la technologie ? / During the second half of the 20th century, the world of devices and their technological ground have tremendously spread. Art, also, has been impacted by this invasion, and some artworks have become equipped-artworks. Those specific artworks are : unstable, dynamic, algorithmic, unseen, interactive. We will try here to follow this technological invasion in the three different places of the artistic regime : how the artist creates his piece of work, how this object appears and exists, and how the spectator receives it. Thus, might appear a new form for a genuine « technological art »… Finally, we will be able to ask the core question and to tackle the main issue : are art and technology compatible ?

O verniz acrílico Paraloid B72TM é um termoplástico que atua como um bom adesivo formando filmes claros. Tem sido usado em conservação e restauração de bens culturais desde os anos 50. Por apresentar Tg próximo a 40°C, no Brasil, algumas substâncias podem ficar adsorvidas à superfície de camadas pictóricas envernizadas. Nesse caso, a limpeza tradicional (palito com algodão e solventes) pode acarretar danos (penetração do solvente, abrasão, etc.) à obra de arte. A limpeza por métodos aquosos (géis e emulsões) pode deixar resíduos que interagem com os materiais originais. Por outro lado, a utilização de nano-géis magnéticos é bastante restrita e de difícil acesso. Esse trabalho tem por objetivo o desenvolvimento de filmes adsorventes de celulose/SBA-15 para retirada do verniz Paraloid B72TM, onde se fizer necessário. Esses filmes foram empregados sobre miméticos (pinturas originais de diferentes técnicas e obras confeccionadas para estudo envernizadas com Paraloid B72TM) para verificação de sua eficácia. As matérias primas, os miméticos e os filmes adsorventes, antes e após a aplicação, foram caracterizadas por técnicas físico-química e analíticas [análise térmica (TG/DTG e DTA); espectroscopia no infravermelho (FTIR); microscopia eletrônica de varredura (MEV); microscopia eletrônica de transmissão (MET); espectroscopia de fluorescência de raios X (XRF), microscopia digital de superfície e estereoscopia]. A microscopia digital de superfície e a estereoscopia foram usadas para inspeção do micro morfologia da superfície e possibilitaram identificar a presença de partículas adsorvidas na superfície das obras. A MEV, a MET permitiram observar a micromorfologia das superfícies e a FTIR caracterizar as matérias primas e os filmes adsorventes. O comportamento térmico das matérias primas e dos filmes adsorventes, antes e após a aplicação, foi avaliado por TG/DTG e DTA. A avaliação dos miméticos e dos filmes de adsorção, antes e depois da aplicação, por XRF evidenciou que não houve danos aos miméticos. O filme de celulose/SBA-15 como adsorvedor da resina acrílica na limpeza de superfícies policromadas em obras de arte, por meio de um solvente, se mostrou eficaz. Esse método é alternativo e não pretende substituir qualquer outro já existente. Visto que, em restauração de obras de arte cada caso é especifico e nada substitui o conhecimento, discernimento e destreza do restaurador. / The acrylic varnish Paraloid B72TM is a thermoplastic, which acts as an adhesive forming clear films. It has been used in conservation and restoration of cultural property since the 50ths. By presenting Tg near 40°C, some substances can become adsorbed on the surface of varnished paintng layers, for example in Brazil. In this case, the traditional cleaning (stick with cotton and solvents) can cause damage (penetration of the solvent, abrasion,...) to the artwork. The cleaning of aqueous methods (gels and emulsions) can leave residues that interact with the original materials. Already, the use of magnetic nano-gels is restricted and difficult to access. This paper aims at developing cellulose/SBA-15 adsorbent films for withdrawal of Paraloid B72TM varnish, where it becomes necessary. These films were employed on mimetic (original paintings of different techniques and works made for study varnished with Paraloid B72TM) to verify its effectiveness. The raw materials, adsorbents and mimetic films before and after application were characterized by physico-chemical and analytical techniques [thermal analysis (TG/DTG and DTA); infrared spectroscopy (FTIR); scanning electron microscopy (SEM); transmited electron microscopy (TEM); fluorescent X-ray spectroscopy (XRF), digital microscopy and surface stereoscopic]. The digital microscopy and surface stereoscopy were used to inspect the surface micro morphology and it was possible to identify the presence of particles adsorbed on the surface of the artwork. The SEM, the TEM showed the micro morphology of the surfaces and FTIR characterized the raw materials and adsorbents films. The thermal behavior of materials and adsorbents films before and after application was evaluated by TG/DTG and DTA. Assessment of adsorption and mimetics films before and after application by XRF showed that there was no damage to the mimetic. The cellulose/SBA-15 film as adsorbent in the acrylic resin in polychrome surface cleaning artwork by means of a solvent, is effective. This method is alternative and not intended to replace any existing one. Since, in restoration of works of art each case is specific and nothing replaces the knowledge, insight and conservator dexterity.

Le corps est être-au-monde. Le corps est l'être-vivant-de-l'image et, ainsi, le corps est image habitée. L'image-corps donne lieu à l'espace sensible lors de son apparition. L'Être comme Nature, peut-il se rendre visible à travers les images ou dans les gestes ? Y a-t-il une spécificité de certains fragments filmiques ou performatifs de la figure du corps et des formes de la persona ? Si cette spécificité a lieu, par quelles voies de la création esthétique ces images ou ces gestes se créent-ils et de quelles manières en imprègnent-t-ils l'œuvre ? Selon quels dispositifs de partage sensible de l'espace matériel et immatériel établi par l'œuvre le spectateur peut-il vivre l'expérience du surgissement de l'être dans l'image ou dans le geste dont il est témoin ? Cette étude est fondée sur l'expérience de recherche pratique et théorique des œuvres. Le sens de cette recherche est ancré dans l'expérience de la création de la danse performative et du cinéma du corps et, plus largement, du cinéma de danse. La quête d'une théorie du sensible est ici fondée, d'une part, sur l'étude du processus de création transdisciplinaire mettant en jeu le corps et les images / les images et les corps en mouvement, d'autre part, sur l'étude d'images mouvantes donnant lieu à une expérience de la présence du corps considérée comme spécifique à la matière de l'humain. Il s'agit, par cette perspective, dans un processus de création performatif, d'étudier les conditions qui donnent lieu au surgissement de ce que nous qualifions de corps d'images et, dans une œuvre filmique, de saisir et de décrire les modalités de l'apparition de ce que nous définissons comme une image corporelle. En ce qui concerne la recherche pratique, nous avons intégré l'équipe de création de l'installation performative Sketches / Notebook de Meg Stuart et, ainsi, constitué un corpus documentaire que, tout au long de notre recherche théorique, nous avons analysé et comparé avec un corpus complémentaire constitué d'œuvres performatives et, surtout, filmiques (on compte, parmi elles, Die Klage der Kaiserin, de Pina Bausch ou Sátántángo de Béla Tarr). Cette recherche nous a permis d’évoquer de nombreux liens entre diverses perspectives philosophiques et esthétiques et d'approfondir l'élaboration du concept janus bifrons d'image corporelle / de corps d'images en relation à la manifestation de la persona dans un environnement de dispositifs et de symboles que nous proposons de penser comme propre à une esthétique organique. En effet, nous reconnaissons à certains fragments de ces œuvres filmiques ou scéniques la puissance de création de l'espace sensible; une organisation de dispositifs dans l'image ou dans le geste capable de générer une mutation de l'espace de signes et de leur réception. De ce fait, nous comprenons qu'en terme de processus de création, certains fragments performatifs et certaines images semblent témoigner de protocoles d'expérience de créations qui - de manière plus propices que d'autres - permettent de donner lieu, voire de faire surgir, des images du corps comme images de la persona : par la présence particulière et universelle à la fois de l'être humain, signe ana-chronique d'une présence mortelle. / The body is being-in-the-world. The body is the image's-being-alive, and thus, the body is an inhabited-image. The image-body gives place to the sensitive space within its advent. Can the Being, as Nature, be visible through images or gestures ? Is there a specificity in certain filmic or performative fragments about the figure of the body and forms taken by a persona ? If this specificity is proven, through which means of the aesthetic creation can these images or gestures be created and how do they impact the artwork ? What are the devices of material and immaterial sensitive sharing of space, as settled by the artwork, that allow the onlooker to live the experiment of the emergence of being through the image or the gesture which he is witnessing ? This study is based upon the experience of practical and theoretical research on artworks. The meaning of said research is rooted in the experience of creation concerning performative dance, cinema of the body and, in a wider perspective, dance cinema. The quest for a theory of the sensitive, in our work, has its foundations, first in the study of the process involved in transdisciplinary creation involving body and images / images and body in motion ; second, in the study of moving pictures generating an experience of the body's presence, considered as specific to human matters. In light of this point of view, our project, through the process of performative creation, is to study the conditions which give birth to the upsurge of what we call a body of images and, in filmic artwork, to grasp and describe the modalities through which what we define as a corporeal image appear. Concerning practical research, we have taken part in the creative team of Meg Stuart's performative setup, Sketches / Notebook, and thus assembled a set of documents which we have analysed and compared, all along our theoretical research, to a complementary set made of performative and, most of all, filmic artworks (among which are included Pina Bausch's Die Klage der Kaiserin and Béla Tarr's Sátántángo). This research gave us the opportunity to call to mind the numerous links existing between different philosophical and aesthetical points of view, as well as to deepen our construction of the janus bifrons concept of corporeal image / body of images, as related to the expression of the persona in an environment made of setups and symbols which our research designates as specific to an organic aesthetic. In fact, we recognize in specific fragments of these filmic or scenic artworks the creative power of sensitive space ; the arrangement of setups within the image or within the gesture, able to operate a mutation of the space of signs and their reception. Therefore, it is our understanding that, regarding the creation process, some performative fragments and some images appear to participate in protocols in creative experience which, in a more suitable manner than others, lead, or even give birth to images of the body as images of a persona, through the presence, all together individual and universal, of the human being as the anachronistic sign of a mortal presence.

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This thesis deals with the theme of folk baroque. The aim of this thesis is to introduce this theme to pupils of secondary school in vivid and entertaining form and thus achieve bigger efficiency of educational process and acquisition of newly acquired information. As the best form of teaching i have considered watching a documentary video. The theoretical part of this thesis describes the history and formation of folk baroque, the most important areas in South Bohemia and also the life and work of Master bricklayer Jakub Bursa. This thesis also summarizes the history of documentary videos, its individual categories, the basics of film language, but also the essential aspects of the usage of video as a methodological aid for teaching. The practical part of this thesis deals with the implementation of an educational documentary video with the theme of folk baroque. The thesis also describes the creation of a supplementary animation program, which is completed by an artistic output in the form of artistic techniques of frottage.