Locating Her Kind
(2024)
author(s): Harsha Menon
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
“Locating Her Kind,” a sonic essay in the form of a 15-minute HD video with sound, is a gender critique exploring female voices as discarded and silenced.
Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity – audio album
(2024)
author(s): Martin Scheuregger, Danica Maier
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition is the online, open-access audio album of 'Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity' by Danica Maier and Martin Scheuregger. The album allows you to play full ensemble versions of the project's two pieces, and also mix your own versions of each piece by combining and balancing the individual instruments. It accompanies the publication of a related 40-page book on the project from Beam Editions.
HANDLE WITH CARE
(2024)
author(s): Athina Eleftheriou
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023
BA Textile and Fashion Design
The aim of this thesis is to explore how setting up interaction between personal memories and the materiality of ordinary used objects contribute in new perspectives within the fashion context.
Escaping into a Daydream
(2024)
author(s): Selma Lu-Lou Tallulah Wurmus
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023
BA Textile and Fashion Design
An exploration of escapism.
Dreams of Lands: Unlearning the Modern Heritage for a Resilient Tomorrow.
(2024)
author(s): Fanny Noel
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023
BA Fine Arts
Dreams of Lands weaves the author's personal heritage to the modern history of Europe in order to understand the current ecological crisis. Questioning the cultural European context in parallel to the native American cosmology, the author enhances the current dynamics of extraction and production that overshadow most of the urban dweller's life.
The research is followed by a gardening handbook for artists and the detailed process of the realisation of a garden in the Royal Academy of the Arts. Both are thought as concrete tools for changing the way we are being human in our world in crisis.
Data Holds Your Truths. The Avatar Complex: I trust your gargoyle id more than I trust you.
(2024)
author(s): Megan Annette Irusta Cornet
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023
BA Photography
Within this piece of writing, different styles of writing have been approached as a performance strategy, a guise we humans willingly and unwillingly commit to every day, online and offline. The overarching themes this text seeks to tackle are alienation and escapism; what I think are the prominent can of worms which ooze from the Internet. Double-edged swords; beautiful and horrifyingly ugly. Alienation to oneself as well as alienating others through the digital sphere. With serious regard to the importance of avatar customisation as a form of expression, yet also acknowledging the destruction within it, it is also the very thing which is actively dislocating us from the IRL (in-real-life). The core to understanding who you are online, how you present yourself online, compared to who you are behind the screen. The text’s leading objective is to hypothesise a world where humans are given the option (highly recommended) to extract our online data to make more of a truthful analysis of who we really are. The prevalence of how capitalistic structures only feed alienation more. If the future consists of post-human and/or transhuman existence, by transmitting our data to gargoyle avatars, creatures which will take the form of one’s avatar, gargoyles are said to protect what they serve. A new gargoyle is designed by your data alone. Data anthropomorphism, the Avatar Complex.
