Safety In NumbersExploring the Network as a Queering of Security [Year 3, 74% Achieved]
Seeing to what extent the idea of safety, and more specifically the artivist projects of Micha Cárdenas that look to proscribe it, can address the costs of the network society. In doing so, I question whether the network society can be better placed to avoid violence and ultimately begin to develop a fairer basis for the networking model. Nishta Measures, Just PolariSensing the Commons [Year 3, 72% achieved]
A look at how the use of slang between the gay male community could have been the bases for a 20th century political commons. In identifying the commons qualities of alliance in Polari, I explore the forward feasibility of reintroducing a field of slag and language as a present day discussion and application of commoning and common action. |
History Just CrashedThe Impacts of Digital Archiving on Analogue Archival Systems [Year 3, 74% Achieved]
A critical look at the push for digitalisation of analogue material archives and the extent to which this could be problematic for the accessibility, visibility and longevity of minor or alternative histories. There Is No EscapeThe Impact of Virtual Reality Technology on Documentary Film [Year 3, 70% achieved]
Readdressing Dziga Vertov’s mission of cinematic apparatus, “to be an infinitely perfectible prosthesis to the human sensorium” as a now occurring scenario, exploring the extent virtual reality technologies can rethink the possibilities of documentary form through there engagement with the sensorium and there blurring of the image as space. |
When We Could ForgetWayback Machine: [Year 2, 70% achieved]
Has the Internet Archive successfully achieved a combination of archival protection and internet resistance of memory? That is the question this critical look at an internet history project begins to open up, taking up ideas and theories surrounding archival access. Art of PrivacyA Look at the Concepts of Privacy Surrounding the Digital Self-Image as Explored Through Art and its Artists [Dissertation, 68% achieved]
From a deep set curiosity in the political, legal and social discussions surrounding our modern take on privacy and a personal investment in our digital-age freedoms; this paper takes privacy concepts and picks them apart, validates and unearths further understandings through the analysis of art and the artists behind them. |