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        Justmytype: An exploration of documentary filmmaking for New Zealand typographic education 

        Lamwilai, Peeti (2021)
        RESEARCH QUESTION How can an online multi-part documentary series on perspectives and approaches to typography be used as an educational resource to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject? ABSTRACT The purpose ...
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        Apentimento 

        King, Reece (2021)
        INTRODUCTION: I started this masters project (like most painters I believe) because I needed a studio. I like to have a studio because I value time away from people and because I enjoy the challenge of painting. Painting ...
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        'droplet' : [how can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?] 

        Campbell, Sheyl (2020-11-27)
        RESEARCH QUESTION: How can photography as a medium be extended beyond realism to highlight recent feminist issues in New Zealand?’ ABSTRACT: I am an artist exploring mixed media practices, including photography and ...
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        Exploring whānau knowledge and hybridity through typographical design 

        Kapa, Jaime (2020)
        This exegesis documents and accounts for the development of a body text typeface designed by me, a hybrid practitioner. Using a practice-based approach with a focus on auto-ethnography, my research explores my own experiences ...
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        Agar Agar : a practice and theory of cultural hybridity in contemporary art 

        Leung, Brendon (2020)
        RESEARCH QUESTION: What can auto-ethnography and the concepts of Agar Agar and hybridity contribute to a contemporary art practice? ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to explore the ideas of Agar Agar and ...
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        Looking through the eyes of others : an investigation into methodologies of 360 film making 

        Kudra, Carsten (2019)
        RESEARCH QUESTION: Do the pre-existing methodologies in film and theatre lend themselves for the development of narrative content in first-person point of view Spherical Video? ABSTRACT: This Thesis represents my ...
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        ‘Not durable, but sustainable’: print technology and ephemerality in product design 

        Sips, Nicole (2018)
        [RESEARCH] QUESTION: How can the principles of temporary and the ephemeral be employed by design in the critical redesign of consumer technological artefacts? OBJECTIVES: - Develop a taxonomy of ephemerality in design, ...
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        Keeping watch : fabricating a space of hesitation 

        Treadwell, Sarah (2018)
        In 2011 the MV Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Stacks of containers fell from the ship and household goods, industrial items and oil washed into the sea coating beaches and birds. ...
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        Co-designing primary learning space in Aotearoa New Zealand 

        Haghighi, Mana Talebi (2017-03)
        Research Question: How can co-design assist students at a bicultural primary school in central Auckland transition into a ”Modern” or ”Innovative” learning environment (MLE/ILE)? New Zealand’s Ministry of Education ...
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        Self discovery through figurative painting 

        Abercrombie, Yvonne (2017)
        Narrative painting through allegorical figuration For the initial stages of my master’s project I embarked on a series of works that were a tentative step towards understanding the notion of ‘narrative’ and how this ...
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        The space connecting - meaningful exchange : exploring aspects of the making and apprehension of artwork through material investigation and participation 

        Eves, Vaimoana (2017)
        This research project investigates the mechanics and processes of an artists’ practice in conjunction with the convention that art acts as a vehicle of communication. How well an artist communicates their thoughts, ...
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        Mansfield and me : intertexuality and the autobiographical impulse in the graphic novel : an exegesis 

        Laing, Sarah (2016-05-26)
        This research explores the practice of intertextuality in graphic memoirs and biographies. As Graham Allen writes, “Meaning becomes something which exists between a text and all the other texts to which it refers and ...
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        Virtualising the stories of Ngākau Māhaki mā te whare e arahi : let the whare be the guide 

        Grbic, Victor (2016)
        This research investigated how mātauranga Māori, recorded histories and events associated with Unitec’s Te Noho Kotahitanga marae can be shared within a digital space. To this end, I developed a model digital repository ...
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        He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua 

        Ngatai, Deane-­Rose (2015)
        TE POU KŌRERO – ABSTRACT This exegesis documents the journey of He reo, he tikanga e whare nei i a tāua, a moving image and sound project, expressing the significance of bicultural experiences in bilingual units within ...
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        Everyday liminality 

        Blinkhorne, Amy (2014)
        This painting project commenced through the activity of re-examining my previous practice, which prompted the desire to focus on the activity of painting through the plasticity of oil paint. The intention to focus on ...
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        The knot not and the knot now 

        Boyle, Audrey (2014)
        Chapter one discusses the role of craft in my art practice, and the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach. The next chapter centres around the idea that art can be a simple process of stripping away the detritus ...
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        Floating bodies : reconciling image and object through drawing 

        Ellis, Stephen (2014)
        This exegesis plots the course of the Floating Bodies project and its ambition to examine climate change iconography through a reconciliation of Image and Object. From an initial polarity, in both concept and outcome, ...
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        Visual storytelling & journeying 

        Grieben, Theresa (2014)
        Illustration is a medium that can enhance and interpret storytelling. When part of sequential art, like comics or graphic novels, it can effectively communicate ideas using specific visual conventions. This masters by ...
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        Chance, change, and making strange : the surprising aesthetics of electronic interaction 

        Bardebes, William (2013)
        This work is an exploration of how randomly generated electronic interaction can be employed to push beyond the sense of instrumentality defined by most domestic electronic experiences. This exegesis recounts a body of ...
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        Flowers in a contemporary painting practice 

        Cervin, Janette (2013)
        This project originated from a cornucopia of personal experiences that informed a perspective shaped by a life growing up surrounded by flowers in the context of a large creative family and a domestic-craft background. ...

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