The multi-verse
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School of Arts, Design and Architecture |
Master's thesis
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2018
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Visual Culture and Contemporary Art
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ViCCA
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en
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20+175+20
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The Multi-Verse was born out of frustrations and confusions regarding the concept of academic research in academia and sets to take the reader on a semi-personal, frantic, experimental journey through the struggle of writing a master’s thesis as an art student today. The project takes the form of a fragmentary essay drifting through factual and fictional, modern-day and historical ac-counts and events in order to depict a stream of thought born out of a struggle and destined to strand on uncharted territory in a seemingly futile loop. The fragments are gathered under four main titles: Anti-Thesis Or As we may think starts with the thought of writing a master’s thesis and continues by exploring the idea of academic research in art and the difficulties surrounding it in parallel to a 1945 article by Vannevar Bush which had a major role in the way computers and HTML were de-veloped in the following years. A Tale of a Thousand and One Nights Or The Unfortunate Life of Al-Mu’tasim reflects on the importance and innate possibilities that exist in archives as tools of knowledge production by de-picting the life of a man in 9th century Baghdad, a contemporary to The House Of Wisdom (looked upon here as an alternative to a modern-day academia), who dreams of gathering the biggest ar-chive of stories to date. The Constant Reinterpretation Or A Requiem for Physicality explores the manner in which human mind and memory functions and the influence of computers and digitization on archives and our methods of analysis. The Multi-Verse Or Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle consists of two parralel stories. The theory of Multiverse and the shadow it casts on the way we preceive the world around us or persue research and the life of two rival physicists asociated with the development of quantom mechanics. The outcome is a collection of 175 cards containing the fragmentory essays that can be rearranged and reinterpreted and two booklets of 20 pages each that serve as a prelogue and an epilogue intended to help a prospective reader in decoding the narrative. The language and tone chosen for this project is intentionally different from the one common in the academia and places itself closer to that of fiction and popular science. Furthermore there has been a concious attempt to include and make use of peripheral, seemingly worthless trivial information and data that usually are left out of the scope of academic writing or thought. The result is an intertwined mass of arguments, questions and reflections on the topic of thinking and writing in relation to archives today.Description
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Ryynänen, MaxThesis advisor
Coyotzi Borja, AndreaKeywords
contemporary art, academic writing, fragmentary narrative, fiction, archive, internet, knowledge production, digitization