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Black Box Installation
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Doctoral (DCA) Thesis by Tatiana Pentes
BlackBOX : painting a digital picture of documented memory
Published University of Technology, Sydney UTS ePress Institutional Repository
Australasian Digital Thesis Program and as a book VDM Verlag, Germany (2009)
https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/20343

Tatiana Pentes, CRUEL BEAUTY, Master of Letters, Art History & Theory, University of Sydney, Dissertation 1998
Tatiana Pentes, CRUEL BEAUTY: The articulation of self, identity, & the creation of an innovative feminine vocabulary in the self-portrait paintings of Frida Kahlo, an M.Litt dissertation collected by the eScholarship Repository, The University of Sydney and published as book and as a book VDM Verlag, Germany (2009) http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1905

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Frida Kahlo school photo (1923)
ABSTRACT

The objective of this paper is to examine the way in which Mexican artist Frida Kahlo represented her sexual subjectivity in the body of self-portraits she produced in her short life time. The self-portraits, some of which were produced in a state of severe physical disability and chronic illness, were also created in the shadow of her famous partner- socialist Mexican muralist/ revolutionary Diego Rivera. An examination of the significant body of self-portrait paintings produced by Frida Kahlo, informed by her personal letters, poems, & photographs, broadens the conventional definitions of subjective self beyond the generic patterns of autobiographical narrative, characteristic of an inherently masculine Western ‘self’. In Kahlo’s self-portraits the representation of the urban Mexican proletarian woman-child draws stylistically from the domain of European self-portraiture, early studio photographic portraiture, and the biographical Mexican Catholic retablo art, with its indebtedness to the ancient Aztec Indian symbology of self.

Tatiana Pentes, WORSHIP SCULPTURE DANCE, Master of Art (Media Arts), CoFa, UNSW, 1995
ABSTRACT

This study is a critical documentation and investigation into the production of a set of digital film artworks installed in the College of Fine Arts gallery as the culmination of the Master of Art (Film, Video, Sound, and Computing), Media Arts. The digital film artworks are comprised of : (i) Worship Sculpture Dance: Odissi : Movements in Stone, the imaging an ancient devotional classical Indian dance form Odissi, from the state of Orissa, India; (ii) Zang Tumb Tumb 1, inspired by the Futurist sound poetry of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and the Luigi Russolo and The Art of Noise; (iii) A Few Small Snaps, the digital animation of a series of autobiographical self-portraits stimulated by a study of the Mexican self-portrait painting of Frida Kahlo; and  (iv) Strange Cities2 an interactive CD-Rom new media script. Strange Cities script (writing) has been included to the Worship Sculpture Dance study as blueprint for potential future research and development.  The aim of this creative research has been to focus on new technology as a contribution to a questioning of traditional (analogue) modes of art production. The approach has been to explore & image traditional classical Indian forms of representation (dance, choreography, and music culture) and to re-interpret and translate these ancient  forms  as a new form of engagement.  At the same time, the objective of this creative research has been interrogate transforming notions of the filmic, televisual, radio(audio)phonic, sonic  and the (digital) computer medium, and to investigate questions of authorship and to challenge the uniqueness of the art object. This creative work is the outcome of conceptual and art historical research, focusing on the potential of an articulation of the philosophical, historical, cultural, formal and spiritual in a digital (computer) landscape.

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