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He Pounamu Ko Āu. Celebrating My Mana Wahine Māori Narrative
No full text“He wāhine, he whenua, e ngaro ai te tangata.”
"By women and land, men are lost ‐ also refers to the essential nourishing roles that women and land fulfil, without which humanity would be lost."
(Ani Mikaere, 1994.).
My master's is a kaupapa Māori creative, practice-led study that explores my wahine Māori identity. I expound on my journey through moving image, mōteatea, ambient sound, and installation. Sharing my healing process of overcoming the adversity of colonisation and the impacts it has had on me as a wāhine Māori.
On an artistic level, my research showcases the wahine Māori worldview through film. I use my maternal whakapapa to celebrate intergenerational wāhine talent. As a finale, I honour my Māori creativity through an exhibition: An immersive experience installation at St Paul's Gallery at Auckland University of Technology.
Delving deeper into my research, I explore the application of a mana wāhine Māori paradigm, drawing knowledge from whakapapa, whakawhānaungatanga and wairuatanga. My understanding is supplemented with personal experiences, empowering my wāhine Māori pūrākau. Moreover, applying a conceptual identity framework of a pounamu pūrākau methodology (developed by my mother, Dr Alvina Jean Edwards) reinforces my Te Ao Māori worldview understanding and ways of knowing.
Further, the pounamu pūrākau methodology provides a valuable lens to review my experimental and explorative moving-image practice. It guided me to my whenua in Te Waipounamu, activating my art-making process. Finally, Papatūānuku is my atua who is chosen for her healing character and represents a central mana wahine figure within my wahine Māori pūrākau
The Aesthetic Lives of Particular Nobodies: Exploring Phantasmic Fictional Character Narratives on Instagram
No full textThis visual illustrative project explores the inherent fictionality of Instagram. Imagining Instagram as an urban environment, it follows the fictional lives of two main protagonists and their virtual circle of friends. It was found that Instagram narrative requires an open-ended structure with no conclusive endpoint, wherein story is focused on character self-image and their place in a social network. This research project demonstrates how Instagram can host original character development through serial image-making and self-performance. Instagram enables the establishment of rich and nuanced character identities and preferences, and the testing out of their virtual relationships through conscious interactions
The Aesthetic Lives of Particular Nobodies: Exploring Phantasmic Fictional Character Narratives on Instagram
No full textThis visual illustrative project explores the inherent fictionality of Instagram. Imagining Instagram as an urban environment, it follows the fictional lives of two main protagonists and their virtual circle of friends. It was found that Instagram narrative requires an open-ended structure with no conclusive endpoint, wherein story is focused on character self-image and their place in a social network. This research project demonstrates how Instagram can host original character development through serial image-making and self-performance. Instagram enables the establishment of rich and nuanced character identities and preferences, and the testing out of their virtual relationships through conscious interactions
You Are Hear - A Muriwai Symphony
No full textThis project has grown from a previous body of work that used sound as a medium for visualising the presence of participants in the artwork. This work employed water and light to transform the visual expressiveness of sound. Sight has become the dominant human sense, with the result that unseen elements, such as sound, often pass unnoticed. This research explores ways of illuminating the invisible elements of nature through engaging in active attention. Using perceptive awareness of the moment, I will collect and make experiences and artefacts that enable me to open up a dialogue with the unseen. This dialogue will form the basis for creating an immersive experience that will allow participants to encounter and connect with dimensions of nature that go unnoticed or are hidden from the eyes
Teretere Moana: Mapping Genealogical Narratives of Identity Through Animated Projection
No full textTeretere Moana is a navigational methodology that I have developed to describe a way of utilising researching skills towards the creation of an animation for a media art installation. This methodology encompasses the what, where, why and how, I developed an artwork, which started from an intuitive vision. This methodology is a heuristic inquiry, as it comes from a place of informed subjectivity and intuition (Ings, 2002). The concept for my research came from an ancient story relating to the Takitumu vaka which arrived in Rarotonga possibly during 1100-1200 AD. My methodology entwines old traditional knowledge through storytelling passed down by our tupunas, and with the stories told, we use them as a guidance platform for today. Adapting the old way of completing a task, we interlace our knowledge/intelligence, our ideas, cultural aspects to set forth a task at hand.
An essential reference in this journey has been the writing of Manulani Aluli-Meyer, who suggests that by using Pacific epistemologies we become unrestricted by ‘objectivity’ and we can validate our subjectivity (Aluli-Meyer, 2006). Sometimes we see it as a ‘whole’, (a sense of knowing the outcome or a rough draft) and here we look for the start of the journey, by building the foundation. A foundational concept is a mapping tool, and from this structure, I work backward to achieve the result of my initial vision. Seeing the completion from the beginning, I enter a journey toward the unknown that lies in-between, to tell the story of my ancestor Ka’ukura
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Earth as Mother, Mother as Earth: Evolving Topographies of Body and Terra: An Inter-media Drawing Practice
No full textThis project offers a visual and aural means to re-understand our contemporary eco-political position through the lens of the queer, internal, pregnant and post-partum bodily landscape alongside Earth’s ecology and geology. This amalgam enables attunement to matters of care, interdependence and responsibility. The research is embodied in an inter-media drawing practice of digital, interactive environments, printmaking, sound and sculpture. The methods in inter-media drawing reveal a process of world-building that is synergetic with the multifarious realities of life and non-life on our planet
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