ABSTRACT #1: Substance use patterns and in-hospital care of adolescents and young adults attending music concerts. Introduction: There are few studies that describe medical complaints …
The rhetoric of textual stability tends to inform much of the scholarly writing about moving images, especially those manufactured by Hollywood studios. Analytical and historical …
“Construction” intersects chance probabilities, experimental performance, and theoretical research through navigations of immersive environments. These navigations center around the Light Box, a new interface that …
This dissertation examines the period 1988-1996 from the perspective of two concurrent yet contrasting occurrences: the arrival of a supposedly final historical stage pronounced by …
This thesis explores the usage of surveillance as a framework for dramaturgy and production in Yussef El Guindi’s BACK OF THE THROAT, produced by Brown …
Abstract of Defamiliarizing the Cart: Art as Interventionist Practice in the Age of Cyberdelic Consumerism, by Martim S. Galvão, Degree A.M., Brown University, May 2017. …
“Hard-Wired Wonderland” is an audiovisual installation that explores a connection between the sonic, the visual, and space. This dissertation seeks to understand the process of …
Memes have become something of a vernacular language for young people online, as the proper understanding and usage of a meme displays subcultural knowledge and …
This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
Marvel's Iron Man franchise represents technology as a vehicle for global military might, heroic masculinity, and individual enhancement fantasies. Drawing on evolving digital film technologies, …
With the 'massification' of digital media technologies comes their entanglements not only with our lives but that moment which defines each life, death itself. To …
This document, the written portion of my dissertation project, is a companion to the interactive multimedia performance work Unless (2009), which featured movement artist Emily …
This thesis project explores how the practice of sociality and relationality as typical of Italian community spaces called “social centers” (centri sociali) permeated Italian new …
Abstract of Queer Times: Aesthetics, Performance, and Social Movements in South Korea, by Yeong Ran Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2020 This dissertation explores the …
This thesis addresses the poetics and politics of "ambience" and "atmospherics" in contemporary culture. I am interested in how "ambient practices" often associated with the …
