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Harmony of Verse and Mind

The study explores into the collaboration between humans and machines, exploring how they creativity come together to make interactive art in the fields of poetry language and neuroscience. By connecting these different areas, the goal is to discover new ways of artistic expression.

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Kitkats and Cuppas

A reflection on points of connection in developing practices over the course of the MA and the collaborations that resulted.

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On Memory

Exploring the possibility of preserving memory and containing emotion in the face of loss and grief

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Self-expression: Revisit narrative landscape painting

The essay traces my artistic evolution from realistic painting under socialist realism to a quest for artistic freedom and primarily explores the possibility of transcending the constraints of national ideology in my personal landscape paintings, aiming for self-expression. It also critically analyzes and attempts to philosophically position my painting practice based on Adorno aesthetic theories.

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Split Bodies: The Construction of Women’s Character in Otaku Culture

This paper describes contemporary subcultural traits and reflects on the impact of East Asian otaku culture’s stereotypical construction of the female figure in online animation on the virtual body and the real physical body.

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We are the same, we are different.

Meng Xu and Jing Pu discuss their family relationships. We explored the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.

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We are the same, we are different.

Jing Pu and Meng Xu discuss their family relationships. We explore the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.

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Unnatural Distinction

This essay explores the decline of ecosystems in the post-human era, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, accessing digital technology to create a series of scenic fragments about ecological crisis.

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On the Exploration and Development of Contemporary Artists in the Field of Cosmology

I hope that through this essay to let the readers and viewers feel the contemporary art in the field of cosmology shine.

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Engaging, Bridging and Addressing

A wide range of discussion about what and how social documentary is being reflected through the practice of traditional and extended printmaking, which involves the aspects of concept development, critical reflection, technique employment and so on.

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There is an ocean between you and me 

An essay discussing how artists and audiences rely on works of art to complete invisible conversations.

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The Art of Imagery in Drawing: Landscape of Memory

This essay discusses my research on the art of imagery in the creation of drawings, which is combined with examples of artworks and my personal artistic practice to discuss the influence of landscape, imagery, and picturesque concepts on my creative thinking.

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Feme Covert

This essay explores the stories of wives eclipsed from history. Documenting how using feminist historiography and storytelling within my practice can make these absent lives visible and provide us with alternative histories.

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The concept of family equality in modern society

This essay combines author articles, sociological research, and personal experiences with numerous sociological papers to investigate the author’s perspectives on their upbringing.

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A Reflection on Industrialism in Photographic Image Production

This essay explores the production process of photographic images influenced by the technological and industrial mechanism, while reflecting on alternatives to deal with the redundancy in image viewing.

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The Fundamentally Flawed Quality of a Painting

Tom is a neo-expressionist painter based in London studying an MA in painting at UAL: Camberwell. In Tom’s essay he will discuss the political economy of the modern art market.

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Limitations and Possibilities in the Dialogue between Art and Gaming

This essay delves into the intricate relationship between art and games, critically examining their intersections, conflicts, and symbiosis in aesthetics, culture, and technology. It seeks to explore additional possibilities through a reflective approach.

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The Transfer of “Self-Consciousness”

This paper focuses on the flow of people’s selves into digital space as the times have moved on, and reflects on the implications of this for millennials’ self-understanding as well as suggesting new ways of thinking about it.

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Women Of The NHS

These podcasts reflect my recent collaboration with Women of the NHS. This podcast is all about celebrating and collaborating with Women of the NHS, from a variety of backgrounds and roles within the NHS. I am excited to be interviewing and working with Women in various stages of their careers and across different sectors of the NHS.

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Installation and Fictioning for Engagement, Social Justice, and Change.

This essay discusses why the ‘artistic interventions’ of installation, and ‘fictioning’ are particularly suitable when the work is underpinned by social justice concerns and has the aim of engaging dialogue for change.