Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Thesis Supervisor "Ings, Welby"
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He iti te manu he nui te kōrero - The bird is small - the story is epic
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This thesis* explores storytelling as cultural expression, and creatively considers the concept of bowdlerisation, and its role in sanitising Māori stories, as an aspect of colonisation. It is formatted as a creative output ... -
‘Homebound’: The Illustrated Graphic Novel As an Autobiographic Voice for an Immigrant Asian Gay Male in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This practice-led artistic inquiry takes the form of an 80-page, scripted and illustrated graphic novel. Creatively, the work is concerned with the narratisation of a largely autobiographical voice through the juxtaposition ... -
How Then to Act? A Performance As Research Investigation Into the Potentials of Expanding an Actor's Agency
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This thesis investigates how to act in a type of theatre that honours the traditions of psychological realism and heightened Shakespearian acting and also accommodates the incorporation of a multiplicity of mediatised ... -
"I want to be a forensic scientist playboy bunny"
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The moving image work I want to be a forensic scientist playboy bunny offers a creative consideration of contemporary female representation. This thesis considers how a typographic discourse might communicate the current ... -
Identity/ambivalence: The deployment of apple light in considering identity in contemporary portrait photography
(Auckland University of Technology, 2004)This project considers the ambivalence and dislocation of both cultural and personal belonging in identity, through an investigation of the aesthetics of Apple Light [a contemporary portrait lighting system]. This ... -
Illuminativa - the coalescence of light and craft thinking
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This project constitutes a practice-led investigation of light as a metaphor for divine wisdom and how it might interact conceptually, physically and creatively with manual craft. The genesis of the project lies in Saint ... -
Illuminativa - The Resonance of the Unseen
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This practice-led creative arts thesis investigates the metaphysical notion of light as an activating principle and how this is subjectively experienced. Light is phenomenologically explored as a catalytic agent that is ... -
Illustration As Inquiry: a visual response to New Zealand Fashion Week
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This thesis develops a body of creative work that presents its findings as an illustrated commentary on New Zealand Fashion Week. The research asks the question, “what is the potential of illustration in communicating the ... -
Last man hanging
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This project involves the retelling of a historic New Zealand story using a system of multiple narrations. The research is presented in three parts:1. The practical component, Last Man Hanging: a book of pictures.2. A ... -
Legends: The nexus between drag and identity
(Auckland University of Technology, 2003)This project and accompanying exegesis investigate the relationship between Drag and identity within contemporary Queer culture. The exegesis acts as a contextualising document for a body of practical research [Bookwork: ... -
Malanga: the voice of positive dissonance
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)Malanga is a creative practice thesis that proposes the notion of positive cultural dissonance. This construct questions the nature of identity loss experienced by young urbanised Pacific people in Auckland, New Zealand. ... -
Masque-ulinities
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)The research is specifically concerned with the notion of the military masque as a projected extension of the history of masqueing behaviour evident in gay men's attire.The creative outcome of the project is a collection ... -
The Mood of the Fifth: Exploring Interbeing with(in) the Refrain
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)In this study, I present five pieces I composed which explore Rudolf Steiner’s indications on music for young children. I assess the potential of Steiner’s comments on the suitability of the interval of the fifth to guide ... -
Narratwist: alteration in meaning in a short film text
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)This project is a creative production that combines image, sound, and narrative. It uses these elements to employ a twist as a device for a paradigm and genre shift in a short film text. My short film introduces a plot ... -
Ngā Pūrākau mō Māui: mai te patuero, te pakokitanga me te whakapēpē ki te kōrero pono, ki te whaihua whaitake, mē ngā honotanga. The Māui Narratives: From Bowdlerisation, Dislocation and Infantilisation to Veracity, Relevance and Connection.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Nā te tāmitanga ā tauiwi i te Māori i Aotearoa, tokomaha ngā reanga i noho mōriroriro mai i te reo me te ahurea Māori. Ko tēnei mahi hinonga he whakapakari i te pito mata o te pūrākau mā te whakamahi i ngā hangarau matihiko ... -
"Nobody Makes Games for Us" - An Investigation Into the Independent Design of Audio Games Through the Development of the Audio Game Hub and Blind Cricket
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)According to the World Health Organization (2019), an estimated 217 million people worldwide are visually impaired and 36 million are blind. Although there are approximately 114,000 video games currently in active circulation ... -
Painting and time: the dynamic of the actual and the virtual
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Painting and Time: The dynamic of the actual and the virtual is a practice-led thesis exploring imagery and association derived from the transit space of travel. This is a place where time is highly coded, where the traveller ... -
Paradox: how New Zealand culture enables creativity, yet mitigates against its spread
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)This practice-led thesis examines the concept of creativity in the context of contemporary New Zealand business. The thesis project comprises two complementary components. The first is a 30-minute video documentary that ... -
Paradoxical Realities: A Creative Consideration of Realismo Maravilhoso in an Interactive Digital Narrative
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This artistic, practice-led thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. The practical project, Saints of Paradox, is formatted as a printed picture book that can be expanded ...