- Title
- Lost in translation: the materialisation of the mark in the digital age
- Creator
- Brooker, Caelli Jo
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This practice-led research asks how personal mark-making might materialise in light of the potentialities of the digital creative landscape. The exhibition, Lost in Translation, examines the materials and metaphors of personal mark-making, drawing on individual experience in the fields of art and design, and extending an ongoing investigation into the abstract gestural mark. This thesis locates the conceptual and material encounter of mark-making within the prism of contemporary studio practice through the use of traditional media in combination with paradigms of graphic design. Inspired by an instance of slippage between the haptic operations of art and design, and furthered by the recognition of polarisation between the analogue and the digital in personal creative practice, the identification and investigation of binary oppositions is utilised as an initial framework through which to explore the mark. The generative potential of Deleuzian conceptions of difference and repetition are then engaged in reappraising these binary structures. The knowledge contributed by this process is embodied in the identification and creative manifestation of the concept of the visual contranym. In response to the de-constructed binary, the DeleuzoGuattarian rhizome proves a resonant philosophical theme through which to develop and apply a corresponding approach to research that mirrors the interconnected creative processes of art and design. A resultant metaphorical and methodological strategy of translation, transformation and multiplicity frames the work: a progression from binary division toward rhizomatic exploration and incorporation. An inclusive rhizomatic model is thereby postulated and applied for negotiating the connective multiplicities inherent in artistic research. The empiric application of this model is tested and evidenced through multiple methodologies, drawing on an interdisciplinary theoretical, technical and material ‘toolbox’. Visuality, graphesis, typography and the diagrammatic; elements of the tools shared by art and design, are also proposed as strategic, generative methods of creative discovery, navigation, and analysis in linking thought to its representations. To this end, the creative work for this research involves distinct, but interwoven streams of material investigation. These rhizomatic studio encounters, alongside the consideration and deployment of digital design paradigms and personal symbolic elements manifest multiple materialisations of mark-making in the digital age.
- Subject
- mark-making; art; difference and repetition; Deleuze; abstraction; visual contranyms; graphic design; creative research; binary opposition; the rhizome; visuality; diagrams; graphesis; materiality
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1047961
- Identifier
- uon:14851
- Rights
- Copyright 2014 Caelli Jo Brooker
- Language
- eng
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