Doctoral Thesis
METAPHOR, MATERIAL ARTEFACT, AND ACTION IN ART PRACTICE
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Murdoch University
2024
Abstract
The written and creative components of this dissertation have been produced within the contingencies of material art practice. This involved considering the fleeting networks of separations, connections and entanglements that make up the intricate, relational web of computer human intra-actions. By adopting George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor and N. Katherine Hayles’s material metaphor, to encompass relational networks, the performance of sense-making is cast as a property emerging, from a dispersed, collective material-discourse process, materialised in the specific context of art practice. Using practice as a foundation this research argues that conceptual and material metaphor can be reframed as more than mere mapping, translating or transforming; it can also be considered a generative diffractive process.
My research connects ideas of difference and sameness, and metaphor to the agency of matter, employing an approach that diffracts visual art through computer science, and computer science through visual art. Sited on a continuum of similarity and difference, the paradoxical nature of material and conceptual metaphor formed a central theme. From a foundation based in bricolage, this research employed an iterative approach where exploration, misuse, breakage and re-purposing of digital material became instantiations of metaphor and corporeal elements of enquiry. Conceptual and material metaphor emerged not as a property held by some singular entity, but instead as distributed throughout the various actions and artefacts that make up intra-active, material-discursive practices.
Details
- Title
- METAPHOR, MATERIAL ARTEFACT, AND ACTION IN ART PRACTICE
- Authors/Creators
- Jan L Andruszkiewicz
- Contributors
- Mark Cypher (Supervisor) - Murdoch University, School of Media and CommunicationKathryn Trees (Supervisor) - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Awarding Institution
- Murdoch University; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Identifiers
- 991005831950007891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media and Communication
- Resource Type
- Doctoral Thesis
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