TY  - THES
A1  - Pacheco Alvim, Sarah
T1  - Falsa Seringueira: Rubber Trees and the Materiality of the Unseen
N2  - The theme of this project is the colonial history of the natural rubber industry. It focuses on two species of tropical plants: Ficus elastica and Hevea brasiliensis. Geographically their native habitat is very distant from each other, but they connect by European influence through the exploitation of latex.

The many forms and outcomes from this work manifest the attempt of the artist to create an association between a common household plant, the origin of its name, and the source of rubber. As a ghostly connective tissue, the latex surrounds reconstructed history, old prints, live plants, and drawings, accepting the material's capacity to both erase and preserve the past.
KW  - Kautschuk
KW  - Gummi
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Kunst
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - art installation
KW  - colonialism
KW  - history
KW  - natural latex
KW  - rubber industry
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230105-48467
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TY  - THES
A1  - Carvalho Daher, Cesar Felipe
T1  - Horoskopos: a virtual planetarium for astrology
N2  - This report details the development of Horoskopos, a virtual planetarium for astrology. This project was an attempt to develop a learning tool for studying astrological concepts as connected to observational astronomy. The premise that astrology and observational astronomy were once inseparable from each other in ancient times guided the conceptualization of this tool as an interactive planetarium. The main references were existing software and applications for visualization in astrology and astronomy. Professional astrology teachers were consulted in order to understand better the state of astrological teaching and learning, as well as existing tools and practice. Horoskopos was built using the Unity3D development interface, which is based on the C# programming language. It also relied on the Swiss Ephemeris coding interface from Astrodienst. The development process was experimental and many of the needed skills were developed as needed. Usability tests were performed as new features were added to the interface. The final version of Horoskopos is fully usable, with many interactive visualization features and a defined visual identity. It was validated together with professional astrologers for its effectiveness in concept and visualization.
KW  - Mediendesign
KW  - Astrologie
KW  - Astronomie
KW  - Planetarium
KW  - Information design
KW  - Interaction design
KW  - Astrology
KW  - Observational astronomy
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220930-47181
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TY  - THES
A1  - Pessoa, Suelen
T1  - Why do the Archives archive? A journey from the hunko to the counter-ethnography and back
N2  - A complex artistic research on the theme of cultural heritage and (neo)colonial processes of material and immaterial expropriation. Starting from the encounter with a phonographic relic at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the artist embarks on a journey to her own roots embodied in the practice of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. In the form of a theoretical treatise, an archive (photos, diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, letters, documents), as well as a sound performance in the public space of the city of Weimar, several theoretical and performative elements are brought together in this transmedia artistic research that proposes a true decolonial practice.
KW  - Künstlerische Forschung
KW  - Museumskunde
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Candomblé
KW  - Brasilien
KW  - decolonisation
KW  - memoy
KW  - museum
KW  - visual arts
KW  - artistic research
KW  - Artistic Research
KW  - Museology
KW  - Counter-ethnography
KW  - Brazil
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210112-43280
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