Browsing Dept. of Graphic Design - Master's degree by Title
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Rave as carnival
(Bilkent University, 2003)In this work I consider contemporary techno-rave parties with regard to their philosophical and cultural origins. Proceeding from Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of carnival, I analyze contemporary rave scene through its precious ... -
Reading product de(sign): an inquiry into discursive aspects of design culture
(Bilkent University, 1996)Every design can be considered as an expression, and every expression conveys meanings to the receiver, of different sorts. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the ways of meaning production and consumption through the ... -
Remediating the data : a study on the interactive dimensions in new media
(Bilkent University, 2005)This thesis analyses the role of interface in altering perception and customizing interaction in new media. It comprehends the correlation of theory and practice while probing into the current debate by means of examples ... -
Representing romance: an investigation of design and signification in the posters of Turkish melodrama 1965-1975
(Bilkent University, 1998)This study aims to investigate the design and signification within the posters of Turkish melodrama 1965-1975 in relation with the representation of romance. Melodrama posters are semiotically interpreted firstly by ... -
A review of the "ontology" of photography
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study is the culmination of a speculative attempt to understand and restate the enigma of photography. It aims to supplement the thought of photography with a host of concepts that seem to have escaped the scope of ... -
The rhetoric of Achaemenid art
(Bilkent University, 2002)Empires are like humans: they are born, they live and they die... In the middle of the sixth century B.C. a newly founded empire by the Achaemenid Dynasty began to dominate the Near East and its environment, which is ... -
The role of documentation in contemporary art : issues of institutional practice
(Bilkent University, 2004)In this research study, documentation’s role in contemporary art described and exemplified according to its relation to the institutional practices of classifying, defining and displaying artworks. Issues and problems, ... -
A semiotical approach to analyze connoted values in advertising photography
(Bilkent University, 1994)The aim of this study is to establish a semiotical framework to analyze advertising photographs. In this context, first, the language and signs of advertising photography have been defined. Furthermore, relationships ... -
"Septemvriiche" newspaper as a visual representation of the state-party-art-culture relations in Bulgaria 1946-1993
(Bilkent University, 2002)This study lays in the general fields of “arts and politics” and “arts and state” relationships. These indisputably broad fields are restricted in this work by concentrating on a specific historical period (1946-1993), ... -
The simulacrum surfaced : a study on the nature of the image
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study aims at understanding the nature of the visual image through discussing the notion of 'simulacrum' within the philosophy of Plato, Baudrillard and Deleuze and trying to locate its importance within the ... -
A singular art : a theoretical and artistic survey on miniature and hybrid possibilities of traditional arts in contemporary art
(Bilkent University, 2007)The aim of this study is to point out the problems which are stemmed from the use of traditional arts, particularly miniature, in contemporary art. A theoretical survey on seeing and representation of traditional arts ... -
A sociological study: comics as the sign of popular culture in the 20th century
(Bilkent University, 1993)The intention of this study is to analyze the sociological structure of the comics within its relation to the social phenomena of the 20th century. Therefore, the concept of popular culture is taken as the key word th ... -
Spectral images : "Dispossessed family photographs" circulating in antique markets in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2005)This study is an attempt to make sense of family photographs that are circulating in antique markets in Turkey. The phenomenon of “dispossessed family photographs” is examined on the basis of the critical literature on ... -
Storytelling technique in Turkish rap music : a music video
(Bilkent University, 2012)This thesis analyzes the storytelling technique in Turkish rap music in the context of hip-hop culture’s content and history, argues its narrative background, seeks answer to what are the mainstream components of Turkish ... -
Subvertising versus advertising : a semiotical analysis of the culture jamming act
(Bilkent University, 2005)This study examines the act of Culture Jamming on the basis of semiotic theory mainly by Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes. Accordingly, the analysis based on the examination of existing Culture Jamming examples. ... -
Technology as prosthesis : A critical account of mankind's involvement with technology
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis aims to discuss the prosthetic quality of technology whilst considering prosthesis as a ‘concept’ in debt to a series of problematics that exceed the common definition of the word in the medical context. ... -
Thematization of death in philosophy and art
(Bilkent University, 2000)This study takes the theme of death in philosophy and art as its explidt focus, cancentrating mainly of contemporary French philosopher Maurice Blanchot's literary and philosophical texts. The 'aporias' in the discourses ... -
A theoretical discussion on framing: and the frame through deconstruction
(Bilkent University, 1999)This study aims at investigating deconstruction, and how a theoretical discussion on framing may be arrived at through such an investigation. For this pupose, some of the concepts such as ‘logocentricm’, ‘differance’, ... -
A tool for generating three dimensional animation on computers
(Bilkent University, 1991)In this work, a three dimensional computer animation system has been designed to be employed in schools, for the training of art students on basic three dimensional animation techniques. Puppet Theater, as we have called ... -
Typography and ideology : typeface design as a statement
(Bilkent University, 2012)
