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Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis.
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/123773 Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. Oberholzer, Luché Eléne Groenewald, Joani Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Jewelry -- Design Jewelry -- Human body -- Transformation Phenomenology -- Research -- Methodology Art and technology Posthumanism Technological innovations Handicraft -- Equipment and supplies Cutting machines UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the boundaries of technological tools in relation to the human body through my own process of jewellery production. It asserts the role of the jewellery piece, as an embodiment of myself, the artist (through my physical involvement in the production of each piece that I create) and the technologies that I rely on. The jewellery piece itself serves as the physical artefact that could potentially distort the human body by way of transforming and extending it. In the same way that technological tools can mediate the human experience in terms of making, I draw a comparison between technological mediation in human experience and the way in which a jewellery piece becomes a physical extension of the wearer and possibly an extension of the human body. I investigate how postphenomenological interpretations of the interface between the human and technology can be expressed through contemporary jewellery practices. Considering that postphenomenology recognises technology as a tool that mediates the human experience of reality, I position postphenomenology as a lens through which I unpack my own experience within a contemporary jewellery practice. I specifically investigate the extent to which the relationship between craftsman and tool is inter-connected and/or indistinguishable in my own craft- based jewellery practice. As such, this study is an attempt to unpack the relationship between the human and technology during the process of making. Furthermore, I establish the role of technology and contemporary jewellery as a form of prosthesis, by framing both the jewellery piece and the technologies used to make it as devices that have the potential to transform the state of the human body. Considering the transformative properties of technology within a posthumanist discourse, I unpack the posthuman as a state of being which is directly influenced by the technological artefact. Thus, posthumanist discourse becomes a platform which allows me to explore, through contemporary jewellery, the role of technology and digitization in obscuring the boundaries of the human body. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie ondersoek ek die invloed wat tegnologiese instrumente kan hê op die beweerde grense van die menslike liggaam, soos bewerkstellig binne my eie kunspraktyk as kuns-juwelier. Ek ondersoek die rol van juweliersware as die vergestalting van myself, die kunstenaar (deur my fisieke betrokkenheid by die vervaardiging van elke stuk) sowel as die tegnologieë waarop ek staat maak. Die juweliersware self dien as die fisiese artefak wat die grense van die menslike liggaam kan beïnvloed, in die sin dat die juweelstuk moontlik gesien kan word as ‘n uitbreiding van die menslike liggaam en so doende die grense van die menslike liggaam kan transformeer of bevraagteken. Op dieselfde manier kan menslike interaksies met tegnologiese instrumente ook gesien word as ‘n moontlike uitbreiding (of verlenging) van die menslike liggaam. Sodoende kan beide die tegnologie wat ek gebruik om juwele mee te vervaardig, sowel as die juweelstuk self beskou word as 'n moontlike uitbreiding van die menslike liggaam. Verder ondersoek ek hoe kuns-juwelierspraktyke, post-fenomenologiese interpretasies van die koppelvlak; tussen mens en tegnologie, kan uitbeeld. As sulks posisioneer ek hierdie studie binne ‘n post-fenomenologiese raamwerk, waarbinne ek my eie vervaardigingsprosesse ontleed. Ek ondersoek spesifiek tot water mate die verhouding tussen vakman en werktuig onderling verbind is en / of ononderskeibaar kan wees binne my eie juwelierspraktyk. Ek sien dus hierdie studie as 'n wyse om die verhouding tussen mens en tegnologie, tydens die vervaardigingsproses, te ontleed. Deur hierdie ondersoek word verdere vrae rondom die rol van tegnologie en juweliersware as ‘n moontlike vorm van prostese aangewakker, en as sulks ondersoek ek beide die juweelstuk self, sowel as die tegnologie wat ek gebruik om dit mee te skep, as onderskeidelike vorms van prostese. In hierdie studie ondersoek ek dus die wyse waarop, beide tegnologie en juweliersware onderskeidelik, die natuurlike toestand van die menslike liggaam kan transformeer. As sulks ondersoek ek binne ‘n posthumanistiese diskoers, die post-menslike, as 'n toestand van wese wat direk beïnvloed word deur die tegnologiese artefak. Die rol van tegnologie en digitalisering binne 'n posthumanistiese diskoers word dus 'n platform om kuns-juweliersware te verken as 'n instrument wat die grense van die post-menslike liggaam kan vervaag. Masters 2021-11-15T14:18:41Z 2021-12-22T14:20:37Z 2021-11-15T14:18:41Z 2021-12-22T14:20:37Z 2021-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123773 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 125 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Jewelry -- Design Jewelry -- Human body -- Transformation Phenomenology -- Research -- Methodology Art and technology Posthumanism Technological innovations Handicraft -- Equipment and supplies Cutting machines UCTD Oberholzer, Luché Eléne Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. |
| title | Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. |
| title_full | Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. |
| title_fullStr | Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. |
| title_short | Crafting the digital: A postphenomenological investigation into the human-technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis. |
| title_sort | crafting the digital a postphenomenological investigation into the human technology interface in a contemporary jewellery praxis |
| topic | Jewelry -- Design Jewelry -- Human body -- Transformation Phenomenology -- Research -- Methodology Art and technology Posthumanism Technological innovations Handicraft -- Equipment and supplies Cutting machines UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123773 |
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