https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/26120 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:05:42 GMT 2026-04-27T16:05:42Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27014 Title: Reinterpreting colour-field and landscape artworks : an investigation in multi-disciplinary ways of creating and experiencing colour and sculpture Abstract: This research explores and investigates whether landscape and colour-field artworks could be reinterpreted effectively through the use of digital stereoscopic painting, video, projection and printing methods in an attempt to enhance illusions of depth and flatness. This is done through the study of various fields of knowledge primarily neurology, stereography, cartography, landscape and colour theory. The study focuses on bringing these areas together in an attempt to successfully create chromostereoscopic colour-field artworks which reinterpret a specific landscape and can be viewed in three-dimensions when viewed with appropriated 3D glasses. Another priority is to place this research in the contemporary art context by studying the implications of experiencing abstract landscape reinterpretations in today‘s modern society. Specific methods are studied and developed by merging together stereoscopic technology and digital painting techniques. This research shows that chromostereoscopic colour-fields could be used to create optical illusions which reinterpret the three-dimensional qualities of topographic landscapes. Description: M.A.DIG.ARTS Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27014 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27013 Title: Replicating life : an exploration of the traditional family photo album and the reenactment of photos in contemporary art Abstract: This dissertation seeks to investigate the role of the intervention on photographs in contemporary art and to contemplate how the value of the family photo album alters through time. It is also a further exploration on the outcome of false memories that can be evoked by photographs. The findings are the result of questionnaires and research relating to these subjects. The first part of this dissertation is dedicated to the study of a number of aspects linked to the importance of the family photo album. Significant information and studies relating to family photographs were documented throughout this research. Results have led to the issue of how false memories are easily evoked through certain photographs; those displayed in the family album and also those that are manipulated in certain ways. Thus, what started off as a study of the connection between photography and memory developed into a selfexploration of personal photographs. Description: M.A.DIG.ARTS Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27013 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27012 Title: Living autism : an immersive learning experience Abstract: The project brings together an inter-faculty experience and expertise from the areas of education, ICT and digital arts to provide an alternative experience in teacher training. In the past decade, in Malta there has been a drive to provide a more inclusive education experience. Teachers in the classroom need to be able to relate with children having different levels of abilities, including those lying on the autism spectrum. My proposal for this project is to bring a different narrative to a specific audience. One of the challenges, which teachers are facing in classrooms that have opened their doors to inclusion, is that of trying to understand and empathise with an autistic learner. Autism is a very complex condition that can manifest itself in a number of ways related to behaviour, communication and relationship with others. Parents of autistic children most often describe how difficult it is for someone who has never had the experience of living with an autistic child, to understand and empathise with how their children perceive the world around them. I believe that despite teacher training, teachers as well as learners go to class largely unprepared for the arrival of an autistic classmate because they cannot fully visualise the experience that a person with that condition lives through. Through this virtual experience we want to support a more sensorial approach to developing empathy with the condition of autism in a classroom setting. The scope of this project is to develop and deliver an app that combined with a VR headset can take the users through a journey into the experiences of an autistic child in a classroom. Using narratives from parents of autistic children as well as experts in the field of autism and learning with autism, this project will focus on re-creating the classroom experience as perceived from the autistic learner’s perceptions that include sights, sounds, actions and interactions. With new technology there is always some kind of Euphoria. This project aims at looking past that euphoria and into ways I can create a narrative for VR. Using sound, this production aims at keeping the user engaged in the narrative while exploring their surrounding and enjoying the spectacle that VR has to offer. Description: M.A.DIG.ARTS Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27012 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27011 Title: If you are not experiencing it, you are not understanding it! : using virtual reality to understand migrants Abstract: Classes are becoming increasingly multi ethnic and it is often the case that teachers are only trained to handle these new realities via textbooks. This project involves getting teachers and their pupils to undergo a virtual reality (VR) experience, which will narrate the story of a migrant child; through the mundane activities of a classroom setting. The whole experience lasts eight minutes per user, however we envisage that with the use of VR, it will leave a long lasting imprint on them, hence conveying a powerful message. It is well known that shared perspectives breed understanding and this is what we’re trying to achieve. So far, we could only do so through audio-visual experiences such as videos, books, etc. By following the life of these people, we can get a taste of what their life is. However, VR represents a huge leap forward when it comes to experiencing compassion. It is about seeing the world through their eyes, even reading and listening to what goes through their mind. The VR headset can easily become an empathy machine capable of influencing the perception of the users. The unrest in Syria, Libya and other countries, which are maybe too far away from our reality, will have a global, devastating effect if not managed properly. On the other hand, we have a generation of people who do not read newspapers and skip news bulletins so we have to entice them in some way or another, hence the venturing into VR journalism. Finally, the project will be studying the impact of this technology with teachers and their pupils in order to document the long lasting effect of such an experience over users (Camilleri, Scicluna, Briffa, Dingli, & Camilleri, 2016). Description: M.A.DIG.ARTS Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27011 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z