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Gesturing toward utopia: queer time and place in the performance Art of Cassils, boychild and Marval A Rex
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)
This thesis examines queer body/performance art concentrating on the concepts of time and space. Prioritizing the approach of queer theory to the perception of time and space, the performances of Cassils, boychild and ...
1-GO 1-E: the development of durational aesthetics in mixed media sculpture
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)
This thesis investigates the development of a technique for the depiction of motion in painting through mixed media sculpture. Utilizing stacked glass layers as the spatial medium, 1-Go 1-E conceptualizes the technique ...
Intertextuality in Turkish TV advertising: an analysis of popular song usage
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)
Brands have started to use popular songs in their advertisements. Especially in
Turkey, different types of usage in terms of changing lyrics of a song with the brand
motto, cover versions, just the background music or ...
Critical reception of contemporary biblical film adaptations
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)
In this thesis, the reception of biblical adaptations is analyzed. By using reception
studies, critical discourse analysis and close reading methods; The Passion of the
Christ (2004), Mary Magdalene (2018), Noah (2014), ...
Lignum Vitae: an interactive organism design of cyberspace and sonic arts
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)
This thesis aims to investigate the nature of artworks created in the scope of
cyberspace and sonic art in analysis of the case artwork Lignum Vitae, a multimedia
artwork designed to be conducted in gallery space through ...
Korean-American Transnational Cinema Cultures
(Bilkent University, 2022-08)
This thesis targets Korean-American Transnational Cinema Cultures that particularly explore the cinematic representation of the Korean-American collective diaspora and one of its independent filmmakers’—Justin Chon—position ...
Exploring the everyday cohabitations of humans and urban animals through the ecodocumentaries of Istanbul
(Bilkent University, 2022-06)
This thesis examines three documentaries about street animals of Istanbul—Taşkafa: Stories of the Street (2013), Kedi (2016), Stray (2020)—belonging to the ecodocumentary genre. With particular emphasis on critical ...
An ecocritical analysis of human–others and nature–others in popular animated fantasy series
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)
This thesis examines the representations of human-Others and nature-Others in popular animated fantasy series from an ecocritical perspective, and with an ecofeminist approach. The five animated series this thesis investigates, ...
Representations of “Kanal İstanbul” in Turkish news media: content analysis of pro-government and oppositional newspapers
(Bilkent University, 2022-09)
This thesis examines the representations of the Kanal Istanbul project in online news articles published in Turkish pro-government and opposition newspapers with different political and ideological orientations. Five ...
Posthumanizing the eye: creating distributed gaze through machine art
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)
This thesis explores the adaptation of distributed cognition theory to the concept of distributed gaze between the artwork and the viewer, through machine art. This mechanical mixed media eye sculpture displays the probability ...