This work seeks to explore the relationship between two arts: music and painting. The aim of this thesis is the creation and execution of an interdisciplinary performance in which music and painting dialogue live, "Painting music", to investigate how both arts relate and influence each other when they are part of a single artistic act and how performers and audience perceive this relationship. To do so, we will investigate interdisciplinary performances, synesthesia (union of perceptions) and the different ways in which painting and music can relate to each other.

Images of nature and family comprise the gestural and abstracted interpretations of my life events. I use my photographs as inspiration for my work. I fuse layers of color, light, and line into glass and onto wood to suspend a personal memory. I want to capture those moments that flit by in life and envelop them in the media. In my fused glass work, I manipulate color, light, and line. In these pieces, I layer frits and sheets of glass onto an abstract sculpted relief of fiberglass and fuse them into one thick slab. The sculpted relief creates a textured deflection of light. In each layer of glass, I encapsulate simple line drawings of my family, elements of the landscape, and organic shapes. In my works on wood, I pour and layer transparent color using acrylic and a water-based polyurethane mixture. I do not fully cover the natural grain of the wood but allow it to contribute to the imagery. I repeat linear marks and create layers of texture using a palette knife, and attach mud and caulk to the natural surface. I further manipulate the surfaces by sanding and carving to express my emotions and memories. The layered media symbolically references layers of time in my personal journey.

abstract: You Are Here: A choreographic memoir exploring anxiety in the YouTube generation is an evening-length performance which began as an interdisciplinary exploration of the therapeutic properties of creative writing and creative movement. Throughout the creation of this performance, the choreographer engaged in self-reflection from which arose the themes of anxiety, the Internet, and identity. As a result of this experience, she reached conclusions regarding her personal voice and agency, interdisciplinary art as therapy, the importance of dance as a coping mechanism in digital cultures, and a definition of the therapeutic process of choreographic memoir. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2017

L’appropriation d’algorithmes existants, la création d’outils numériques et des recherches conceptuelles ont mené à la création de deux installations audiovisuelles interactives. La première, Deep Duo, met en scène des réseaux de neurones artificiels contrôlant des synthétiseurs modulaires. La deuxième, Morphogenèse, l’œuvre d’envergure de ce mémoire, met en relation le spectateur avec des modèles profonds génératifs et le place face à des représentations artificielles de sa voix et de son visage. Les installations et leurs fonctionnements seront décrits et, à travers des exemples de stratégies créatives et des concepts théoriques en lien avec l’interactivité et l’esthétique des comportements, des pistes pour favoriser l’utilisation d’algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique à des fins créatives seront proposées. / The appropriation of existing algorithms, the creation of digital tools and conceptual research have led to the creation of two interactive audiovisual installations. The first, Deep Duo, features artificial neural networks controlling modular synthesizers. The second, Morphogenesis, the major work of this dissertation, connects the viewer with generative deep models and places them in front of artificial representations of their voice and face. We will describe these installations and their functioning and, through examples of creative strategies and theoretical concepts related to interactivity and the aesthetics of behaviour, we will propose ways to promote the use of machine learning algorithms for creative purposes.