Conditions Variable: Assemblage Theory and Systems Theory in Creative Practice

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dc.contributor.advisorCouroux, Marc G.
dc.creatorOuellette, Troy David
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-15T19:38:24Z
dc.date.available2014-07-15T19:38:24Z
dc.date.copyright2014-01-23
dc.date.issued2014-07-09
dc.date.updated2014-07-09T16:40:24Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation will situate the twenty-first century phenomenon of Assemblage theory, which originated in the field of philosophy, within the last 100 years of creative practice. Drawing from Manuel DeLanda’s application of Assemblage theory, I will devise a means to discuss creative practice without reducing its analysis to ‘structured fields’ or ‘closed systems’. Rather, comparisons will be made between a system and an assemblage to illustrate how the two part ways, and find common ground. To better understand the way in which systems have been applied in artistic practice, an investigation of two major twentieth-century paradigm shifts will be examined. The first example is the Bauhaus school and its post-European formal offshoot in America, the New Bauhaus, and how it adapted its European predecessor’s principles of design. The second is the technological revolution, which engendered Jack Burnham’s Systems Esthetics, Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In light of these developments, I argue that a flexible, descriptive, Assemblage theory is needed to better articulate how art (the work and its making) functions within an expanded field of practice as it now exists. The adaptable and transmutable nature of Assemblage theory is also illustrated through example. In the process this dissertation will offer new ways to articulate and understand creative practice and propose a new strategy for art to be understood. Finally, I will employ Assemblage theory to analyze my own creative endeavours.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27642
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.subjectFine artsen_US
dc.subjectArt historyen_US
dc.subjectPedagogyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSpeculative Realismen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAssemblage Theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsManuel DeLandaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsTheory of Multiplicityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsWeather in Arten_US
dc.subject.keywordsConceptual Arten_US
dc.subject.keywordsExperiments in Art and Technologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsStudio Practiceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNew Bauhausen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCenter for Advanced Visual Studiesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGyorgy Kepesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsJack Burnhamen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSystems Estheticsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGestalt Theoryen_US
dc.titleConditions Variable: Assemblage Theory and Systems Theory in Creative Practiceen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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