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Embodied by Design: The Presence of Creativity, Art-making, and Self in Virtual Reality

Pissini, Jessica M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594831377515567

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
From computational and scientific viewpoints, virtual reality (VR) is a well-researched technology, platform, and mode of communication. However, from an arts perspective, virtual reality has very few, if any, defined parameters as an artistic medium. This study aims to explore the technical affordances and the experiential and creative phenomena of art-making in virtual reality in an effort to establish VR as a contemporary artistic medium framed within an arts and museum education context. The embodied, open-ended play of art-making with the virtual medium presents a different kind of user experience than most other VR applications, which deserves alternative ways of classifying the immersive elements of virtual art-making. By using the social cognitive framework (Bandura, 1986) to guide my research, I consider the dynamic relationship between environment, person, and behavior in order to understand not only the technical elements, but also what type of immersive process and embodied creativity virtual artists experience and what types of art can they make. Through a phenomenological framework, design-thinking approach, and an arts-based research methodology, this study analyzes data collected from participants and uses data visualizations to bring the research to life and make it accessible for all audiences and fields of study. Additionally, this project aims to discover how artists and educators can use the virtual medium to inspire creativity and impactful art experiences within museum spaces in ways that transport the visitors from viewer-of-art to maker-of-art.
Christine Ballengee Morris (Committee Co-Chair)
Dana Kletchka (Committee Co-Chair)
Shari Savage (Committee Member)
Matthew Lewis (Committee Member)
Vitalya Berezina-Blackburn (Committee Member)
254 p.
Aesthetics; Art Education; Communication; Design; Educational Technology; Fine Arts; Museum Studies; Museums
virtual reality; art; art education; museum education; virtual art; digital art; embodiment; creativity; creative flow; design thinking; arts based research; aesthetics; social cognitive theory;

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  • Pissini, J. M. (2020). Embodied by Design: The Presence of Creativity, Art-making, and Self in Virtual Reality [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594831377515567

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  • Pissini, Jessica. Embodied by Design: The Presence of Creativity, Art-making, and Self in Virtual Reality. 2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594831377515567.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pissini, Jessica. "Embodied by Design: The Presence of Creativity, Art-making, and Self in Virtual Reality." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594831377515567

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