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The Digital Tool in the Curious Maker’s Hand: Critical Exploration Processes to Engage Historical Paintings for New Inquiry and Dialogue

Winegardner, Zachary

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2018, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Design.
Virtual 3D media, immersive environments, interactive media, and digital image manipulation are just a few examples of digital tools that can provide a new perspective and engagement with visual subjects of interest. When exercised within critical making and play processes, digital tools can create opportunities for new observations and new inquiry surrounding an image’s formal and narrative construction. This thesis explores how digital media can be employed in making and play processes to function as a method of inquiry when examining complex visual content. Historical paintings possessing elements of believable environments serve as a case study, in which the method of digital inquiry is applied via research-oriented design. The result is a non-linear customized methodology that draws upon critical making, critical play, digital craft, experiential learning, and rhizomatic thinking to synthesize new understandings. This document surveys several theories supporting the construction of the research methodology followed by an overview of creative projects that contributed to its conceptual development. The methodology itself consists of a selection of events, which can progress flexibly to fit the researcher’s curiosity. The methodology review is accompanied by samples from a creative project exemplifying each event in the process.
Jeff Haase (Advisor)
Maria Palazzi (Committee Member)
Deborah Scott (Committee Member)
120 p.

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  • Winegardner, Z. (2018). The Digital Tool in the Curious Maker’s Hand: Critical Exploration Processes to Engage Historical Paintings for New Inquiry and Dialogue [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524061715427681

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Winegardner, Zachary. The Digital Tool in the Curious Maker’s Hand: Critical Exploration Processes to Engage Historical Paintings for New Inquiry and Dialogue. 2018. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524061715427681.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Winegardner, Zachary. "The Digital Tool in the Curious Maker’s Hand: Critical Exploration Processes to Engage Historical Paintings for New Inquiry and Dialogue." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524061715427681

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)