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Finding A Way Out Of The Filter Bubble: The Confusion Of A Heavy Social Media User, Longwen Miao

Masters Theses

This thesis studies how algorithmic recommendation systems reshape visual perception, aesthetic judgment, and the construction of selfhood within contemporary digital culture.

Everything begins with the experience of repeatedly encountering algorithmically recommended content on everyday digital platforms. On these platforms, images, sounds, and social interactions are continuously selected, repeated, and reorganized by predictive systems, forming an environment in which perception is constantly structured and adjusted.

From this observation, the research raises two central questions: how do algorithmic recommendation systems reshape visual perception, aesthetic judgment, and self-recognition, and how might these systems be intervened in or made perceptible through artistic practice? Within …

How To Walk On Water: Living Through The Absurd, Esther Du

Masters Theses

Set in a speculative world submerged by water, this thesis constructs a fragmented, nonlinear narrative that reflects on survival, memory, and displacement in the aftermath of catastrophe. Through three interwoven chapters—The Outcast, The Researcher, and The World—the project explores the emotional and psychological landscapes of individuals navigating a post-apocalyptic existence where the past is irretrievable and the future uncertain. Using an interdisciplinary form of visual storytelling, writing, and sound, the work draws from personal experience and collective trauma to examine how people reconstruct identity and meaning after loss. Rather than offering a definitive answer to existential …

Ib-Adat, Anum Naseer

Masters Theses

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Towards The Non-Spectacle: Responses To Necropolitics In The Artwork Of Teresa Margolles And Maya Watanabe, Leslie Anne Condon

Masters Theses

How do we engage with artwork that addresses complicated histories

of colonialism and political violence, specifically intangible and

incomprehensible violence? Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ 2005 work, Lote

Bravo, is named after and composed of the soil from a mass grave site

discovered in 1995 in the southeastern corner of Ciudad Juárez, a city known

internationally for the femicide that has continued to haunt its streets and

peripheries since the 1990s. Peruvian filmmaker Maya Watanabe’s 2019 film

Liminal cinematically documents the official exhumation of two mass graves

in the Ayacucho and Huánuco regions of the Andes highlands, where

thousands of …

Maxime Cavajani Movement Lab Fellowship Final Presentation, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Personal Work

May 14th 2024, Fellowship Final Presenation

Poetry Research, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Personal Work

Spring 2024 Poetry Research

Pastel Sculpture Research, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Personal Work

Spring 2024 Pastel Sculpture Research

Hunter Cabiness | Thesd Hands, Hunter Cabiness, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Mohammad Abasi | I Love You, Mohammad Abasi, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Neil Hsiao | Double Sided, Neil Hsiao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Ava Maghsoodlou | Regeneration, Ava Maghsoolou, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Kisaki Matsumoto | Sylveine, Kisaki Matsumoto, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Candy Qu | Ripples Of Distraction, Candy Qu, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

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Echo Xu | No One Enters, Echo Xu, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

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Reem Al-Ani | Down Below, Up Above, And Beyond, Reem Al-Ani, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

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Elise Williams | Deliver Me, Again (But Cleaner) (Please), Elise Mollie Williams, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

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Alexandra Reintjes | God Watches With Her Back Turned, Alexandra Reintjes, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

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Dylan Gabriel | Alez, Belle Bagay, Dylan Gabriel, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Elsie Zhao | Remnants, Elsie Zhao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Henry Deng | Fleeting, Henry Deng, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Rokyi Li | Lost In Transformation, Rokyi Li, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Cris Gao | To Kill The Dead Boy In The Pool, Cris Gao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Video Through | Finals Screening Poster, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Work

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Video Through | Week 3: Reading And Voicing Exercises, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Outline of Week 3, Day 1 presenting method of reading, voicing, and movement exercises.

Video Through | Week 3: Reading And Voicing Exercises Texts, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Images of text excerpts employed for reading and voicing exercises, Week 3, Day 1.

Video Through | Week 3: Presentation Of Video Installations, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Outline of artists references screened on Week 3, Day1.

Video Through | Week 2: Technical Information For Dslr, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Technical information and diagrams describing the function and relationship of aperture settings, ISO sensitivitiy, shutter speed, focal length, and exposure when shooting with a DSLR camera.

Video Through | Week 1: Bibliography, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Bibliography of all course readings and references.

Video Through | Week 1: On Montage, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation outline and links to artist references discussed and screened in Week 2, on Day 2 On Montage + Editing.

Video Through | Wintersession 2024 Syllabus, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

This course is entitled video through because it aims to question how video allows us to think through time and through space simultaneously. In this course we will consider video as space, material, and matter. In an approach that prioritizes experimentation in space, we will work in a non-linear fashion: fabricating video in space and fabricating space with video _ a constant back and forth. From those experiments we will learn how to use the properties of video editing, video-making, shooting, projecting/screening as interconnected tools that deny a singular trajectory of making.

The classroom will become a site. We are …