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Failing, Falling, Flying, and the Knowledge “Gap”

Reed, Hillary Nicole
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4818-3454
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492005385494479

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2017, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
The purpose of my research is to examine and gain an understanding of the space between knowing and not knowing as it relates to methods of serious play, repetition, failure, chance, and documenting lived experiences. This occurs through explorations of photography, especially focusing on the camera as vehicle for documenting experience, as well as my impulsive and reactionary studio practice. I am interested in the boundary where science meets poetics. I loosely model my studio experiments on the scientific method. I set up a problem centered on these aforementioned subjects and explore it through designing camera obscuras, of small and large scale, which are used in performance. These often absurd or makeshift pinhole cameras become the documentarians of a performed trajectory. Through the use of specially made analog cameras, and the structures that carry or propel them, I have discovered that futility, failure, and active engagement with materials are means that produce unexpected, compelling results. These results are sculptural, photographic, performative, and experiential art pieces, which could have never been pre-determined. The work in `Thesis’ is a culmination of three years of the prolific fumbling and fervor of this process.
Laura Lisbon (Advisor)
Dani Leventhal (Committee Member)
Suzanne Silver (Committee Member)
49 p.
Aesthetics; Art Education; Cinematography; Civil Engineering; Experiments; Fine Arts; Gender
failure; flying; chance; art; fine art; fun; image; photograph; pinhole; black and white; abstract; bicycle; gallery; aircraft; machine; gesture; movement; photography; contemporary

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  • Reed, H. N. (2017). Failing, Falling, Flying, and the Knowledge “Gap” [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492005385494479

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Reed, Hillary. Failing, Falling, Flying, and the Knowledge “Gap”. 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492005385494479.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Reed, Hillary. "Failing, Falling, Flying, and the Knowledge “Gap”." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492005385494479

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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