"Femininity: Ownership and Power": A Multimedia Exhibition
Aleyna M. Brown, B.A., B.M., B.M.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis/Dissertation (Online)
- Publication:
- [Denton, Texas] : University of North Texas, 2021
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- Summary:
- Abstract: This thesis is a critical analysis and creative commentary providing research and insight into my 150-minute multimedia exhibition, "Femininity: Ownership and Power," that premiered October 23, 2021. All of my research, composition, and collaboration efforts seek to recontextualize the semiotics of 'femininity' through ownership and empowerment from varying intersections and identities. The titles of the eight works composed and premiered as part of the exhibition include: a beautiful reckoning; Dust; Moirai; Gaia; Portrait of the American Woman; Shared, In Balanced Contrast; At My Intersection; and I See You. Also included was #pinkcode, an exhibit that features a fuschia graphic user interface for an interactive modulation synthesis application built in Csound designed to bring femininity into computer music spaces. The musical compositions vary in instrumentation including flute, alto flute, voice, guitar, viola, harp, cajon, vibraphone, live electronics, and fixed media. They also vary in medium including live performance, virtual reality video, music video, audio-reactive TouchDesigner video, immersive text projections, light show, and live dance. Feminist texts by women poets and authors recited by women personally connected to me are also included in the fabric of the musical fixed media of multiple pieces in the thesis exhibition. Collaborators of artistic media including film, digital art, music, and dance include Eboni Johnson, Hannah Ottinger, Cami Holman, Miranda Zapata, and Elijah J. Thomas.
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction, research theme and commentary, technology, event overview. Introduction and scope ; Feminist art activism, research, and commentary ; Multimedia technology and collaboration ; Event overview
- Creative compositions. Composition 1: #pinkcode ; Composition 2: A beautiful reckoning ; Composition 3: Portrait of the American woman ; Composition 4: I see you ; Composition 5: Dust ; Composition 6: Moirai ; Composition 7: Gaia ; Composition 8: Shared, in balanced contrast ; Composition 9: At my intersection.
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Aleyna M. , author
- Contributors:
- Stout, David, 1955- , major professor
- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- Dissertation Notes:
- M.A. ― University of North Texas, 2021.
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (UNT Digital Library, viewed July 17, 2022). - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 139 pages) : illustrations, music.
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- Electronic Thesis
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1341353499