Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Joseph, Frances"
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Acting and Its Double: A Practice-led Investigation of the Nature of Acting Within Performance Capture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This research deepens our understanding, as animators, actors, audiences, and academics, of how we see the practice of acting in performance capture (PeCap). While exploring the intersections between acting and animation, ... -
The Hand of the Cloth: An Ontological and Aesthetic Unfolding Through Digital and Virtual Materiality
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)This research unfolds an ontology and aesthetics of cloth through physical, digital and virtual states. Material structure and cloth dynamics are investigated through the use of the technology of motion capture. The context ... -
High Radio Frequency Applications of Soft Conductors and Flexible Dielectrics
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This PhD research focuses on designing wearable and flexible high radio-frequency (RF) structures with soft conductors and flexible substrates. These structures are designed to operate from 20 to 40 GHz, including antennae, ... -
Seamless Knit – Dimensions Unfolding: An Investigation of 3-Dimensional Knitted Form-Building
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This research investigated the latent 3-dimensional form-building capability of digital seamless knit technology with the intention of demonstrating the potential of knitted fabric within a new and emergent design dimension; ... -
Seamless knitwear: singularities in design
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The ‘hypothesis’ of this practice-led research is that seamless knitwear processes, recognized as mass- production tools within a post-Fordist system of the mass-production of difference, may be rethought as design innovation ... -
The Shadow Machine: Photographic Practice as the Performance of Democratic Objects.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The aim of this project is to contribute to the realm of contemporary photographic practice by presenting an ontology that disputes both the image and the human as its central protagonists. Photography is almost by default ... -
Tōia Mai: Speculating Art and Reality at the Hyphen in Aotearoa-New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This practice-led creative research is located at the intercultural hyphen space (Fine, 1994) between Māori and Pākeha in Aotearoa-New Zealand. It attempts to explore some potential parallels and synergies between the ... -
Transformational Cloth: Weaving the Undervalued Threads of Textile Waste into a Value Added Change Model
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This thesis identifies some of the issues surrounding an unsustainable manufacturing cycle and the associated problems of pre- and post-consumer textile waste that continue to cause considerable environmental problems when ...