Rather than being located in a field of art that addresses genocide through assumptions connected with identity issues or activism, this thesis of an artist’s exploration of artistic response to genocide in post World War II art practice, is informed by the emerging field of genocide scholarship. Seeing a parallelism between the concerns of genocide scholars and artists who respond to genocide, this thesis is an interdisciplinary study of art positioned alongside the field of genocide scholarship, as theorised by scholars such as Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses. In addressing genocide through broader historical trends, periods and structures, it assumes that artists who respond to genocide share with genocide scholars a concern about genocide at a secondary level and share the potential to create illumination in the field. This thesis explores art practices that address genocide conceptually through structure and material. The central claim of this thesis is that recent and contemporary art practices, here discussed, show a concern to respond to genocide as an ethical response, and that they do so by engaging with the complexity of abstract issues such as complicity and agency. The initial analysis of Adorno’s discourse on ethics, as it relates to response in art, sets up a level of complexity for two further investigations that interrogate the discourses of victim representation and lens-based documents of genocide through ethics and agency. Together these provide an analytical framework for the project. Close readings informed by genocide scholarship, of art practices including those of Jimmie Durham and Francis Alÿs, take forward notions in the existing critical field. These readings yield not only the evidence that demonstrates a commitment to creating ethically based art through conceptually informed practice, in artists responding to genocide, but also the value of a cultural critique that is informed by genocide scholarship.

The present work explores my practice as a photojournalist researching anthropological issues in the Muslim world. I use the Hawzas, the Muslim Shi’a seminaries, as my case study to invite a visually informed approach to the human sciences, and promote a practical usage of aesthetics. Because of the dramatic disproportion between socio-cultural relevance and under-representation, the Hawzas offer an extremely valuable opportunity to research issues of Orientalism and Orientalist visual archives. By questioning my own fieldwork practice alongside the visual signification of the Hawzas, I reconnect the pre-production to the post-production phase, and encompass within it a shared outlook issues of both the Real and the represented. I posit the photograph within wider multimedia and multi-audience practices as a stand-alone communicative device and part of a montage to assess its communicative features in relation to the verbal as a caption, and to the visual, in montage. Through this, I distinguish a phenomenological framework of analysis to urge a radical rethinking of personal and social agencies, and suggest the notion of communicative hubs for today’s globalised identities. I evince the extent to which the digital is reshaping forms of visual-led and multimedia production, knowledge distribution and media consumption to finally contextualise the photograph as ‘semantics without ontology.’ I conclude by advocating my ideas of the ‘Meta- Image’ and ‘Public Cultures 2.0’ as two integrated formats for visual-led communication, digital media practice, social engagement and public impact as specifically addressing Muslim cultures.

Denna undersökning syftar till att hitta utvecklingsmetoder för hur jag som bildlärare i skakunna undervisa om graffiti och gatukonst, som en del av kontexten samtidskonst ur ettteoretiskt och estetiskt perspektiv på lärande. Jag valde att fördjupa mig i graffiti som visuellkultur och genom ett konstnärligt undersökande utveckla min egen praktik och estetiskakunnande utifrån tekniska metoder och material. Dessa hämtade från kreativa praktiker inomtraditionell graffiti för att utveckla min kunskap genom kroppslig upplevelse.Undersökningens frågeställning är: På vilka sätt kan graffiti som praktik förstås genom ettkonstnärligt praktiskt undersökande, i ett utvecklingsdidaktiskt syfte?Genom A/R/Tography som metodologiskt förhållningssätt har jag under studien agerat somkonstnären, forskaren och läraren (Artist - Researcher - Teacher) och undersökt graffiti somvisuell kultur . Under den gestaltande redovisningen och examensutställningen, menar jag attförsöka återskapa platsen för min studie, och synliggöra de förutsättningar som styrt minkreativa praktik och individuella lärprocess . Syftet med den slutgiltliga gestaltningen är attbjuda in till en interaktiv installation med en öppen vägg i ständig förändring. Här jag vill gebesökare möjlighet att få ny kunskap och själva få uppleva en graffiti inspirerad kreativprocess.

SILVA, Mauricio da. A contribuição da Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais para o desenvolvimento da epistemologia da Educomunicação. 2016. 110 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) ­ Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2016. Inspirado em observações da práxis Arteducativa e Educomunicativa, este trabalho identifica e analisa as inter-relações teóricas da Arte/Educação, no paradigma da Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais, e a Comunicação/Educação, no paradigma da Educomunicação, com o objetivo de refletir sobre os pontos que tem em comum para apontar as possíveis contribuições que a Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais pode fazer para o aprofundamento conceitual do campo da Educomunicação. São apresentadas as estruturas/sistemas das áreas de conhecimento híbridas da Arte/Educação e Comunicação/Educação dentro de um olhar transdisciplinar e suas diferentes vertentes relacionadas aos contextos, para referência comparativa na fundamentação das características da Abordagem Triangular e da Educomunicação. Por fim é indicado o Ler-Fazer- Contextualizar, base da Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais como processo orientador para a desenvolvimento da práxis e epistemologia da Educomunicação. / Teaching Art and Visual Cultures can bring to conceptual deepenings in the field of Educomunication. This study exposes the structures/systems in hybrid knowledge areas of Art/Education as well as Communication/Education through a transdisciplinary view and their various contextualized dimensions, for comparative reference purposes, based on the grounds of the characteristics of the Triangular Approach and Educommunication. Finally, indicates the three combined actions Read-Do-Contextualize, the foundations of Triangular Teaching Approach of Arts and Visual Cultures, as a guiding process for the praxis and epistemology of Educommunication development.

SILVA, Mauricio da. A contribuição da Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais para o desenvolvimento da epistemologia da Educomunicação. 2016. 110 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) ­ Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2016. Inspirado em observações da práxis Arteducativa e Educomunicativa, este trabalho identifica e analisa as inter-relações teóricas da Arte/Educação, no paradigma da Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais, e a Comunicação/Educação, no paradigma da Educomunicação, com o objetivo de refletir sobre os pontos que tem em comum para apontar as possíveis contribuições que a Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais pode fazer para o aprofundamento conceitual do campo da Educomunicação. São apresentadas as estruturas/sistemas das áreas de conhecimento híbridas da Arte/Educação e Comunicação/Educação dentro de um olhar transdisciplinar e suas diferentes vertentes relacionadas aos contextos, para referência comparativa na fundamentação das características da Abordagem Triangular e da Educomunicação. Por fim é indicado o Ler-Fazer- Contextualizar, base da Abordagem Triangular do Ensino das Artes e Culturas Visuais como processo orientador para a desenvolvimento da práxis e epistemologia da Educomunicação. / Teaching Art and Visual Cultures can bring to conceptual deepenings in the field of Educomunication. This study exposes the structures/systems in hybrid knowledge areas of Art/Education as well as Communication/Education through a transdisciplinary view and their various contextualized dimensions, for comparative reference purposes, based on the grounds of the characteristics of the Triangular Approach and Educommunication. Finally, indicates the three combined actions Read-Do-Contextualize, the foundations of Triangular Teaching Approach of Arts and Visual Cultures, as a guiding process for the praxis and epistemology of Educommunication development.

Depuis quelques temps, on note que les objets d’apparence artisanale symbolisent souvent des qualités écologiques telles que des matériaux naturels et une fabrication éthique. Les visées de l’étude ont été d’explorer les perceptions à l’égard des objets à caractère artisanal et cela, en vue de reconnaître quelles qualités écologiques sont attribuées à ces derniers, tout en tentant de comprendre les raisons qui se cachent derrière ces associations. Une étude auprès d’usagers a permis d’explorer l’ensemble des qualités pouvant être liées à ce type d’objet, en considérant plus précisément le rapport entre les qualités écologiques leur étant accordées et leur durée de vie projetée. Pour ce faire, au cours d’entretiens individuels, des thèmes comme l’appréciation à long terme, la signification et la considération de la diversité culturelle ont été examinés. Les résultats montrent entre autres que les objets à caractère artisanal sont caractérisés comme étant composés de matériaux naturels et sains pour la santé des usagers. Leur usure est reconnue comme éveillant les représentations quant à leur « histoire », alors que leur originalité leur confère une « âme ». Enfin, car ils sont considérés comme ayant été fabriqués par des créateurs autonomes, ces objets sont associés à des conditions de travail éthiques et sont perçus comme étant capables de faire tourner l’économie locale. Les renseignements recueillis peuvent informer les théories et la pratique en design industriel quant à la disposition des objets à caractère artisanal à être appréciés par les usagers, de leur durée de vie projetée et du désir de les entretenir et de les léguer. Ce projet constitue un premier répertoire des perceptions entourant ce type d’objet, un champ de recherche encore très peu documenté, malgré qu’il s’inscrive à l’intérieur d’un contexte environnemental et social bien actuel. Les résultats obtenus contribuent à leur façon à la perspective d’une conception, d’une fabrication et d’une consommation davantage viables. / In these days, artisanal-looking objects often symbolize ecological qualities such as natural materials and ethical production. The aims of the study were to explore perceptions towards artisanal looking objects and that, in order to recognize what ecological qualities are attributed to them, while trying to understand the reasons behind these associations. A study of users allowed to explore all the qualities that can be associated with this type of object, considering specifically the relationship between these environmental qualities and their planned lifespan. To do so, topics such as long-term appreciation, meaning and consideration of cultural diversity were examined during individual interviews. Results show that artisanal-looking objects are caracterized as objects being made of materials that are natural and safe for users. As well, their patina stimulates the perception of having a « story », and their originality gives the perception of the object having « soul ». Lastly, because they are considered as being made by independent designers, these objects are associated with ethical working conditions and are perceived as having the capability to drive the local economy. Among other things, the information gathered can inform theory and practice in the field of industrial design on the ability of artisanal-looking objects to be appreciated. Information can also shed light on their planned lifespan in regard to user’s level of emotional attachment, and on the desire of users to preserve and to bestow them upon future generations. This project stands as a first inventory of perceptions pertaining to this type of object, a field of research not yet well documented although it is in line with the current environmental and social context. The obtained results, therefore, contribute to the ongoing project of a more sustainable design, production and consumption.

<div>This project engages in an intersectional and interdisciplinary tracing of the emerging field of feminist game studies and the epistemologies and methodologies that exist within this field. Through such tracing, this project asks—what are feminist game studies’ epistemological goals and frameworks? What methodologies can the field draw from in order to achieve these epistemological goals? Ultimately, this project argues that feminist game studies enacts an epistemology of feminist worldbuilding—that is, an inclusive, embodied, space-claiming mode of producing knowledge—and achieves this worldbuilding through methodologies of intersectional disruption in order to perform disruptive feminist interventions into video game culture. </div><div><br></div><div>In the first chapter of this project, I make use of a methodology of narrative autoethnography to discuss my experience with online harassment as an inroad into interrogating the bodies at risk in gaming spaces in order to make a case for the need for feminist interventions to disrupt the violent structures within video game culture. The second chapter traces the ways hegemonic, patriarchal frameworks in game studies epistemologically deprivilege material, representational analyses of bodies and culture in the study of games and, instead, argues for the implementation of intersectional approaches to video game culture. The third chapter maps the intersectional feminist methodologies that can be implemented in feminist game studies in order to perform generative and disruptive interventions into video game culture and build feminist worlds. </div><div><br></div><div>In the fourth chapter, I apply some of these methodologies of disruption to the alienation of mothers in the gaming industry’s workplace culture and representations of mothers in the games Among the Sleep and Horizon Zero Dawn in order to intervene into video game culture’s prejudicial attitudes regarding labor, mothers, and women. The final chapter continues my autoethnographic work through the connection of my experiences with online harassment to previous experiences with gendered violence and trauma in order to underscore the stakes of feminist game studies praxis. In all these ways, I argue that feminist game studies builds worlds by performing interventions into video game culture through intersectional and pluralistic methodologies of disruption, for such methodologies imagine new, inclusive models of existence and futurity in video game culture.</div>

Depuis quelques temps, on note que les objets d’apparence artisanale symbolisent souvent des qualités écologiques telles que des matériaux naturels et une fabrication éthique. Les visées de l’étude ont été d’explorer les perceptions à l’égard des objets à caractère artisanal et cela, en vue de reconnaître quelles qualités écologiques sont attribuées à ces derniers, tout en tentant de comprendre les raisons qui se cachent derrière ces associations. Une étude auprès d’usagers a permis d’explorer l’ensemble des qualités pouvant être liées à ce type d’objet, en considérant plus précisément le rapport entre les qualités écologiques leur étant accordées et leur durée de vie projetée. Pour ce faire, au cours d’entretiens individuels, des thèmes comme l’appréciation à long terme, la signification et la considération de la diversité culturelle ont été examinés. Les résultats montrent entre autres que les objets à caractère artisanal sont caractérisés comme étant composés de matériaux naturels et sains pour la santé des usagers. Leur usure est reconnue comme éveillant les représentations quant à leur « histoire », alors que leur originalité leur confère une « âme ». Enfin, car ils sont considérés comme ayant été fabriqués par des créateurs autonomes, ces objets sont associés à des conditions de travail éthiques et sont perçus comme étant capables de faire tourner l’économie locale. Les renseignements recueillis peuvent informer les théories et la pratique en design industriel quant à la disposition des objets à caractère artisanal à être appréciés par les usagers, de leur durée de vie projetée et du désir de les entretenir et de les léguer. Ce projet constitue un premier répertoire des perceptions entourant ce type d’objet, un champ de recherche encore très peu documenté, malgré qu’il s’inscrive à l’intérieur d’un contexte environnemental et social bien actuel. Les résultats obtenus contribuent à leur façon à la perspective d’une conception, d’une fabrication et d’une consommation davantage viables. / In these days, artisanal-looking objects often symbolize ecological qualities such as natural materials and ethical production. The aims of the study were to explore perceptions towards artisanal looking objects and that, in order to recognize what ecological qualities are attributed to them, while trying to understand the reasons behind these associations. A study of users allowed to explore all the qualities that can be associated with this type of object, considering specifically the relationship between these environmental qualities and their planned lifespan. To do so, topics such as long-term appreciation, meaning and consideration of cultural diversity were examined during individual interviews. Results show that artisanal-looking objects are caracterized as objects being made of materials that are natural and safe for users. As well, their patina stimulates the perception of having a « story », and their originality gives the perception of the object having « soul ». Lastly, because they are considered as being made by independent designers, these objects are associated with ethical working conditions and are perceived as having the capability to drive the local economy. Among other things, the information gathered can inform theory and practice in the field of industrial design on the ability of artisanal-looking objects to be appreciated. Information can also shed light on their planned lifespan in regard to user’s level of emotional attachment, and on the desire of users to preserve and to bestow them upon future generations. This project stands as a first inventory of perceptions pertaining to this type of object, a field of research not yet well documented although it is in line with the current environmental and social context. The obtained results, therefore, contribute to the ongoing project of a more sustainable design, production and consumption.