- Thesis outline

Shape:
In general I think the best option for me to shape my thesis would be through one of the example formats given: a narrative that traces a web of relationships – contextualizing your work in relation to other practitioners, practices and artworks, situating your work within relevant theoretical, philosophical, aesthetic and other fields of knowledge.

In the first year of Piet Zwart I have been looking at LGBT related topics. I mostly did so from a personal subjective perspective in photography, and by looking into queer cinema. In the presentation of the second term I made clear that I wanted to be make a statement with my work, be more political. As feedback the tutors told me I already make a statement in the work that I make.

Ideally, as a graduation proposal, I would to continue with the three lines of thought I’ve been working on in the first year. The photographic medium in itself (and the methodology of the ‘table’ not the tableau’) , making the (gay) cinematic language my own combined with CGI and LGBT issues/identity. As an end result I would like to bring these three things together, though it might still be loose entities. I think It could be interesting to work towards an installation through curation of the material I will gather.

In the thesis I would like to investigate the above mentioned lines of thought and by doing so reflecting on my own practice and methodology.

What you want the thesis to be about?
More concrete options could entail:
- analyses of gay cinema (or representation by queer artists in general related to my work)
- seeing as knowledge
- theories about PHT (prenatal hormone theory)
- the possibilities or perhaps the dangers/dread in these technologies for the LGBT community
- dystopian/utopian ideas (in relation to a gay state, gay nationalism, AI, DNN etc.)

How it relates to your research at the Piet Zwart so far

Bibliography (not complete)
Arnheim, R (2004), Visual Thinking, University of California
Daston, L. and Galison, P. (2007), Objectivity, The MIT Press
Graham, G. (2010), The Gay State
Silverman, K. (2015), The miracle of analogy, Stanford University press