University of SaskatchewanHARVEST
  • Login
  • Submit Your Work
  • About
    • About HARVEST
    • Guidelines
    • Browse
      • All of HARVEST
      • Communities & Collections
      • By Issue Date
      • Authors
      • Titles
      • Subjects
      • This Collection
      • By Issue Date
      • Authors
      • Titles
      • Subjects
    • My Account
      • Login
      JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
      View Item 
      • HARVEST
      • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
      • Graduate Theses and Dissertations
      • View Item
      • HARVEST
      • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
      • Graduate Theses and Dissertations
      • View Item

      The Odyssey Panorama

      Thumbnail
      View/Open
      TylerBrettTheOdysseyPanorama.pdf (13.13Mb)
      Date
      2009-08
      Author
      Brett, Tyler
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
      Metadata
      Show full item record
      Abstract
      Unlike various conventional drawing techniques, changes and edits to digital drawings can be made quickly, which easily enables the creation of many versions and layers of the same image. My ability to manipulate my medium and easily merge previously drawn disparate objects, like cars and trees, often leads me to investigate further elaborations and variations that produce previously unthought of results. This versatility and sense of freedom promotes a sense of risk free experimentation that often leads to an inquisitiveness that motivates me to push the limits of representation. Although imbued with a good measure of humour and implied optimism,The Odyssey Panorama resembles a familiar Hollywood science fiction, a Mad Max kind of world, where survivors of an apocalyptic event recycle the cast-off remnants of industrialization and prepare for an uncertain future. Technology in The Odyssey Panorama is apparent, but simplified and reduced to a personal scale in the form of renewable energy systems. By suggesting that the products of unsustainable systems be used to construct inhabitable sculptures, that is architectural art, this exhibition proposes a shift in thinking from the standpoint of the preservation and maintenance of the ecological, economic and technological status quo to the survivalist approach of preparing for an inevitable and unstoppable change.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)
      Department
      Art and Art History
      Program
      Art and Art History
      Supervisor
      Norlen, Alison
      Committee
      Nowlin, Tim; Gutwin, Carl; Bell, Keith
      Copyright Date
      August 2009
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-09142009-190356
      Subject
      Canadian 21st century
      Architecture in art
      Art
      Collections
      • Graduate Theses and Dissertations
      University of Saskatchewan

      University Library

      © University of Saskatchewan
      Contact Us | Disclaimer | Privacy