Sökning: "the uncanny"

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1. 6. Staying, Sane, on a Planet Dying Fast : Art and Eco-Psychology in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Sam Hammarberg; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Ecocriticism; mental health; solastalgia; eco-PTSD; ecological uncanny; Vonnegut;

   Sammanfattning : This essay analyzes Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions (1973) in relation to eco-psychology. First, Dwayne Hoover is diagnosed with solastalgia; second, the narrator is shown to suffer from ecological PTSD; and, lastly, the novel is considered in light of the ecological uncanny and the ecological homecoming narrative. LÄS MER

3. 7. Stalking the Zone of Sentience : A Journey with Glass

   Master-uppsats, Konstfack/Keramik & Glas

   Författare :Mira Davida; [2023]
   Nyckelord :glassart; flameworking; glasscasting; emotion; imaginednature; mysteriousness; uncanny;

   Sammanfattning : In this writing, I guide the reader through different aspects of the emotional understanding and experiencing of art. The general purpose of the research is to argue that aesthetic experience is intertwined with various emotional stages. LÄS MER

4. 8. Local collaboration in a Mixed Reality environment : Adding virtual heads to improve social presence

   Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Författare :Lucas Detto; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Mixed reality; Augmented reality; Social presence; Avatars; Uncanny valley; Video see-through; Blandad verklighet; Förstärkt verklighet; Social närvaro; Avatarer; Kusliga dalen; Video genomskinlig;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the use of virtual avatar heads to enhance local video see-through collaboration in a mixed reality environment. When users engage with each other using a head-mounted display, the device sits atop their head and obstructs their view, concealing their gaze and facial expressions while collaborating. LÄS MER

5. 9. Facing Anthropocene Threats : Rational Bureaucracy vs. Anthropocene Climate Change in The Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Lora Ivanoska; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Anthropocene; Climate Change; Bureaucracy; Rational Bureaucracy; Climate Change Bureaucracy; Jeff Vandermeer; Southern Reach; Annihilation; Authority;

   Sammanfattning : Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach series has been a talking point for many ecocritical papers exploring themes of Anthropocene, uncanny, and hyperobjects. Despite the plethora of themes being investigated concerning climate change in Southern Reach, an important aspect, the climate change bureaucracy of the Southern Reach agency, is glossed over. LÄS MER

7. 10. The Uncanny and AI: Reimagine Goya's Deaf Man's Villa

   Master-uppsats, KTH/Arkitektur

   Författare :Puqiao Liu; [2023]
   Nyckelord :The uncanny; AI; Midjourney; Goya; Black Paintings; Deaf Man s Villa; Quinta del Sordo;

   Sammanfattning : In the uncanny feeling I experienced from Goya’s Deaf Man’s Villa, an estranged Deaf Man’s Villa was created but also repressed in my subconscious and thus invisible. How can I use AI to derive this Deaf Man’s Villa hidden in my subconscious? The aim of this project is, with AI Midjourney, to deduce the uncanny feeling I experienced from Goya’s Deaf Man’s Villa to an architectural design. LÄS MER