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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00443
- Thesis Title
- The Politics and Poetics of Coexistence: Experiments At The Intersection Of Art And Environmental Engineering
- Author
- Tega Brain
- E-mail
- tega.brain AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Masters of Art (research)
- Year
- 2012
- Number of Pages
- 108
- University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Thesis Supervisor
- Keith Armstrong
- Supervisor e-mail
- keith AT embodiedmedia.com
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Grant Stevens
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Creative Industries
- Copyright Ownership
- Tega Brain
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English
- URL where full thesis can be found
- eprints.qut.edu.au/61027/
- Keywords
- Art, Practice-Led Research, Environment, Ecology, Interdisciplinary, Science, Engineering, Culture, Media Art, Speculative Design, Critical Design, Sculpture, Installation, Video Art, Performance, Collaboration, Visualisation, Information, Experiment, Dat
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- How can interdisciplinary art practices provide ways for questioning and envisaging alternative modes of coexistence between humans and the non-humans who together, make up the environment. This practice led research project combines a body of creative work (50%) and this exegesis (50%). My interdisciplinary artistic practice appropriates methods and processes from science and engineering and merges them into artistic contexts for critical and poetic ends. By blending pseudo-scientific experimentation with creative strategies like visual fiction, humour, absurd public performance and scripted audience participation, this body of work engages with a range of debates around ecology. This exegesis details the interplay between critical theory relating to these debates, the work of other creative practitioners and my own evolving artistic practice. Through utilising methods and processes drawn from my prior career in water engineering, I present an interdisciplinary synthesis that seeks to promote improved understandings of the causes and consequences of our ecological actions and inactions.