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miss translation : from fact to feeling to form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis is a narration of historical events translated through my own subjective filter; it represents my view of myself as a Korean woman and as an immigrant. It is also the summation of my personal experience of ...
Nesting complex systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis discusses an artistic method of engaging with complex systems. The engagements take the form of inserting a certain something (an object, a task, a conversational prompt, myself) into a complex system with ...
Who knows where : a treatise on indisciplinary thinking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The production of knowledge has been immensely tied to the production of space in both language and application. Through the use of metaphors and metonymy coupled with spatial strategies of exclusion and delimitation, ...
The Z axis and its composite matrix of perception
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Beliefs and ideas mingle with our perceptions of physical objects and spaces as the same cognitive material. Within a conceptual mental space, these perceptions constitute a composite matrix of perception. When we navigate ...
Sonic Spaces : technological access to dominance and resistance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The sonic space can be qualified as a highly relevant layer or dimension to a political notion of public space. The material in use to claim or occupy the sonic space is sound, whose emission or reception by humans largely ...
Toward misreading : assembling (k)new meaning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis explores meaning-making strategies in art practices through an entangled reading of the material and discursive forms through which that meaning is made. This thesis proposes that a necessarily material-discursive ...
A site without a place is a space :
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis analyzes a series of art works, institutions and art programs in Colombia that have shaped site-specific works since the 1980s. Due to the fact that site-specific projects in Colombia have not evolved at the ...
Pass, passing : between frames of memory, cinema and the archive
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis explores the artistic process of producing a film, All We Have is Now, that is about family and apartheid. The text traces various aspects of the film's production from the points of research, perspective, and ...
Tessituras Abertas : pessimistic, yet persistent in other possible imaginaries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The present thesis addresses the compound of aesthetics and politics, motivated by the philosophical inquiry on the political potency of art. By doing so, this thesis also offers an investigation on the enrooted practice ...
Domesticating the ghost : constellations of Mexico, 1968
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Organized primarily as an essayistic method of investigation to accompany and supplement my thirty-minute short film AT THE TOP OF GRASSHOPPER'S HILL, this thesis traces minor encounters or discrepant engagements¹ between ...