<p>Tema disertacije, Kineski vrt &ndash; arhitektura i kultura vrta u kineeskoj<br />tradiciji i njena naučna pripadnost određeni su i uslovljeni<br />konceptualnom razlikom između evropskog i kineskog vrta. Ova razlika<br />ukratko glasi: evropski vrt se pretežno sadi, dok se kineski vrt<br />konsekventno gradi. Glavni predmet umetnosti građenja kineskog vrta<br />je jedinstvena artikulacija prostora koja podrazumeva izražajna<br />sredstva arhitekture ali i učešće gotovo svih elemenata koji su se<br />ikada razvili u kineskoj kulturi. Istraživanje obuhvata analizu<br />istorijskog razvoja, filozofsko &ndash; teorijske osnove estetike vrta,<br />morfologiju i tipologiju arhitektonskog prostora kao i analizu većeg<br />broja sačuvanih vrtova Ming i Ćing perioda.</p> / <p>This thesis aims to provide deeper insight into the art of landscaping as the<br />set of ideas and practices that governs Chinese traditional architecture. It is<br />based on multidisciplinary research on historical, cultural, philosophical and<br />artistic aspects of garden design. Examination is directed toward broadening<br />of domain knowledge as to create the base for different approach to what is<br />generally perceived as modern architecture. Theoretically and empirically it<br />suggests the importance of the articulation of site over the building design.<br />Each chapter explores different facts of the relationship between site and<br />architectural object.</p>

This study utilising a 'theory into practice' methodology, interrogates the phenomena of the Australian Regional Art Museum and establishes that curatorship, as a defined visual art practice can sustain the art museum as a viable cultural institution in contemporary regional Australia. It employs a case study of a new model art museum and the curation of selected collections-based exhibitions.

Ce mémoire a pour objet d'étude l'utilisation des biotechnologies en tant qu'outil de création dans les oeuvres de l'artiste Eduardo Kac et du collectif Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A). Bien qu'il comporte plusieurs similitudes, le travail de ces artistes présente des différences majeures quant à leur fonctionnement technique et scientifique mais également quant à leurs visées esthétiques et politiques, et aux questions qu'ils soulèvent. L'étude des écrits des artistes nous permet de documenter et de comparer ces pratiques tout en les situant dans le contexte de l'art actuel. Notre premier chapitre, L'avènement de l'art biotechnologique, propose une série d'oeuvres abordant des thématiques similaires à celles des oeuvres du corpus, mais à travers des médiums plus traditionnels tels que la peinture et la sculpture. On y trouve également quelques repères quant aux influences diverses des artistes choisis, ainsi qu'une brève typologie des principales formes d'art biotechnologique. Nous y expliquons également notre choix d'étudier des oeuvres intervenant directement sur le vivant. Le second chapitre s'intitule Les problématiques et les polémiques émergeant des oeuvres biotechnologiques : Étude de cas. Après un bref aperçu de la démarche de Kac et de TC&A, nous proposons une analyse des oeuvres du corpus, basée sur leur présentation formelle, leur fonctionnement sur le plan technique et scientifique ainsi que sur leurs thématiques récurrentes. Par la suite, nous comparons la position théorique des artistes à partir de leurs écrits et selon ces critères: le processus de conception des oeuvres, les buts ou objectifs recherchés, les visées esthétiques et politiques, et les stratégies formelles des textes. Dans notre troisième et dernier chapitre, La question de l'éthique, nous proposons un bref aperçu des fondements imaginaires de l'éthique par rapport au vivant à travers les mythes de Prométhée, Faust et Frankenstein. Nous abordons également les risques associés aux biotechnologies utilisées par les artistes. Le chapitre se termine par les diverses questions éthiques soulevées par les oeuvres: la question de la responsabilité, l'équilibre écologique, le respect de l'animal, l'animal comme nourriture, l'animal rentabilisé, l'animal comme vêtement, l'animal de laboratoire et l'animal de compagnie. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Eduardo Kac, Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A), Art biotechnologique, Éthique, Biotechnologies, Écrits d'artistes, Transgénèse, Culture tissulaire.

Nowadays Lithuanian society is dynamic and rapidly developing. Culture is like the system of values created by a human being. It integrates a public process of political, social, economical development and is able to accelerate social and economical development of the country. Institutions forming cultural processes find themselves in the crossing of the above-mentioned processes. The sociological survey on culture needs are needed not only to describe the state of culture but also to determine the changes, the tendency of public needs to be developed, the peculiarities of activities of culture institutions in the community of a city, useful contacts and culture perspectives. In improving the activities of culture institutions, it is very important to pay attention to a subjective aspect- the possibilities of human development. In order to determine the public needs for culture, the attitude towards the activities of culture and art institutions, the status of city culture, to determine the negative and positive evaluations of cultural activities, the research was implemented. During the survey, 200 inhabitants of Panevėžys City of 16-61 years old were interviewed. The hypothesis was raised- if the attention is paid to the opinion of inhabitants to the activities of culture and art institutions, the status of city culture, the peculiarities of activities of culture and art institutions in the community of the city, useful contacts and the perspectives of culture could be... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisor: Ann E. Gibson, Dept. of Art History. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MFineArt)--University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, [2003]., VCA Art, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-36)

Hybrid organizations, such as the Royal Dramatic Theater (Dramaten) in Sweden, face the challenge of balancing conflicting institutional logics and their prescribed goals. Dramaten, as the national stage for theater, is expected to uphold high artistic standards set by its sole owner, the Swedish state. At the same time, it has efficiency goals to meet as a joint-stock company. This study aimed to understand if the quantifiability of goals, derived from different logics, impacts the prioritization of goals within hybrid organizations. Through a qualitative case study of Dramaten, the findings suggest that the most influential actor, rather than the quantifiability of goals, determines the prioritization of goals within the organization. In other words, who is giving directions seems to influence the balancing act more than the nature of the different goals. Additionally, the study found that efforts to make all goals equally measurable may not necessarily affect the prioritization of goals but can help reduce internal confusion.

In 1996 Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr coined the term Semi-Livings to describe the living tissue constructs that are grown/constructed out of tissues taken from complex organisms and maintained alive with the aid of technological intervention. The Semi-Livings refers mainly to living tissue constructs that have no biomedical purpose. In the case of Catts and Zurr these evocative entities are created for the sole purpose of art. The Semi-Livings are unique examples of a growing class of objects/subjects that are increasingly populating our made environment. This thesis is the story of these tissue constructs as well as the techno-scientific project which sustains them alive and further articulates their meanings and purposes. This investigation is conducted in times of rapid developments in the life sciences and their applied technologies, when the humanist view of human separation and domination over nature is under great challenge. The thesis explores issues concerning the nature of living fragments of bodies and how they force us – humans – to reassess our understandings of life. It narrates the history of partial life, beginning a century ago, mainly in the bio-medical field and the fiction stories it created, to the times when actual semi-livings exist, not only in laboratories and tissue banks, but also in factories, museums, zoos and art galleries. The new and re-emerging ethical questions raised by such a phenomenon are discussed. The role of the artist working with living (and semi-living) materials in the context of post-capitalism and genohype is interrogated. The aim is to reveal and establish a new field within the arts – Tissue Art – pioneered by the artists of the Tissue Culture & Art project (Catts and Zurr) and the ensuing development of SymbioticA, an Artistic Research Laboratory, at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology of the University of Western Australia. We are living in times when new understandings of life through advances in scientific knowledge and new abilities to manipulate life through applied technologies are increasingly incompatible with traditional cultural and ontological perceptions of life. This gap between current (and potential) bio-technological practices and cultural beliefs is the niche explored by the Tissue Culture & Art project (TC&A). The TC&A's Semi-Livings are conceptual prototypes of a new kind of

The thesis deals with the phenomenon of play and games as a basic principle of human culture. Play has been present in all the fields of human culture and has been a crucial element for creating its dynamism ever since. The theoretical part stems from the works which are concerned with the theories of play. The most significant are Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga, Oase des Glücks (The Oasis of Happiness), Spiel als Weltsymbol (Play as a Symbol of World) by Eugen Fink and Les jeux et les hommes (Man, Play and Games) by Roger Calloise who brings new viewpoint to this topic. The key element of this work is the manifestation of the topic in the fine arts. The thesis specifies its focus on the Czech fine Arts scene of the 20th and 21st century. The didactic part is focused on the possibility of the use of play and games in the lessons of Arts. It poses open-ended questions how to use play and games not only as a means of motivation but also as a tool of creation.

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