Gripping the Clouds, Fragmented Thoughts on Contemporary Life and Its Frameworks
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author(s): Anna Rogneby
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The thesis «Gripping the Clouds, Fragmented Thoughts on Contemporary Life and Its Frameworks» is a nonlinear text that blends personal observations with broader questions about how we live, see, and interact today. It examines the everyday influence of technology, media, and systems of representation—how they shape our behaviour, our sense of self, and perhaps most notably, our attention. Just as the text reflects on how our focus is increasingly pulled from one thing to another, it is also written in this way. The form is open and associative, where thoughts unfold in real time, often interrupted, redirected, or left unfinished. The result is a stream-of-consciousness style in which the reading experience centers more on noticing and reflecting than on drawing clear conclusions.
HUMAN
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author(s): Lucile Prem Soliman
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KABK Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023.
BA Interactive/Media/Design
This thesis explores the body as a transformative site where identity, autonomy, and self-expression intersect with cultural, societal, and technological forces. Through the lens of body modification, it examines how individuals reclaim agency by altering their physical form, challenging dominant ideals shaped by patriarchy, religion, and societal norms. Drawing on personal experience, indigenous practices, and speculative design, this work considers how the body can be utilized as a tool for resistance, empowerment, and evolution.
The concept of fluidity emerges as central: identity and the human form are not fixed, but adaptable and in constant negotiation. Technologies such as neural augmentation and transhumanist enhancements are expanding the boundaries of what it means to be human, introducing new ways of expressing the self beyond biology. This work envisions a future where transformation is not only possible, but accessible and intentional—a reflection of inner growth made external.
At the same time, it emphasizes the ethical need for inclusivity, cultural respect, and awareness of systemic inequalities in these movements. Ultimately, this thesis positions the body as a living interface, through which new definitions of humanity are formed, questioned, and continually reimagined.
The Autobiography of My / A Car
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author(s): Nadia Sotirova Abadjieva
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- Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025
- DEPARTMENT: BA Interactive Media Design
Recuerditos de Cuba
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author(s): Anabel Pérez Lubián
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Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023.
BA Fine Arts.
This thesis explores the intersections of tourism, memory and visual culture through a decolonial lens, using personal photographs and lived experience as the primary site of inquiry. Centered on the context of Cuba, the work interrogates the postcard as both a material object and a colonial modern artifact, tracing how the tourist, particularly the white, gaze commodifies La Habana's histories, spaces and bodies. The project unfolds through the author’s own diasporic return to Cuba, structured around a series of photographs taken at the age of eight. These images, constituent of a family archive, anchor the narrative and serve as points of entry into the layered relationships between personal memory and colonial visual regimes. Throughout the book, the research brings forth the archival materials that inform the knowledge the author stands upon. The materials that shape memory, and memory itself as knowledge. Drawing on the flat, affective style of Annie Ernaux’s écriture plate, the thesis adopts a third person narrative voice to perform close readings of these childhood images, allowing the memory of a child to guide the inquiry. Rather than reproduce the vistas of La Habana Vieja, which Rolando Vázquez critiques as visual regimes that sustain the colonial difference, the work turns inward, toward domestic interiors and overlooked everyday scenes as potential sites of resistance. Ultimately, the thesis proposes a situated decolonial aesthetic practice grounded in embodied memory, affective inheritance and visual testimony.
The Shape of Becoming
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author(s): Olivier Blom
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A magical journey through space time and matter.
form's instances
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author(s): Jedrzej Eltman
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Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025
BA ArtScience
Form's instances is an investigation of form and its function in relation with open systems, questioning the position of cognition in context of everything and nothingness.
