CADN Alumni
The following MRP/Theses have been completed in CADN since 2011 and can be viewed online through the OCAD University Library repository.
2023
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AnnaLiisa Olilla Gison
“The Sacred and Profane Dichotomy in the Art of Warhol and Serrano”
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Katherine Pretti
“Visual Manifestation of Things Unseen: Relating Abstraction and Trauma”
2022
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Kyrie Robinson
“Fragmented storytelling in Lynda Barry’s graphic memoir One! Hundred! Demons!”
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Razieh Einypourfazli
“Contemporary Black Choreo-Performers: Intersecting Bodies, Dis/Placement, Race”
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Hannah Dickson
“Performing Agency - Contemporary Burlesque and the Feminist Gaze”
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Maya Burns
“Ways of Looking: Appropriation in Annie MacDonell’s Originality and Repetition”
2021
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Cassandra Gemmell
“The Metrics of Monstrosity & the Visuality of Crime Detection; from the Victorian era’s Photographic Archive to Artificial Intelligence”
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Lucia Wallace
“Drop my heart like an urn; dissolve my skin like it’s clay: Dichotomies of Destruction & Creation; the Material & the Intangible”
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Tanner Serson
“Understanding Creative Canada: Cultural Policy, Public Sentiment, and Digital Tax Reforms”
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Stefania Saraiva
“Conflicting Modernities: Venezuelan art in the 1950s and 1960s”
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Delilah Rosier
“Chosen Family Values: Examining the Creative Practices of Kiera Boult, Madelyne Beckles, Kalale Dalton-Lutale and Cason Sharpe”
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Priscilla Pham
“Representations and Reality: Defining the Ongoing Relationship between Anime and Otaku Cultures”
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Victoria Milne
“Mario Santamaria’s Trolling Google Art Project: Critical Explorations in Google’s Museum Views”
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Muxuan Hua
“Borderlessness: teamLab, Immersive Experience, and New Media Installation Art”
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Julian Golden
2020
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Erin Szikora
“Visual Sovereignty and the Making of NIIPA: Tracing an Archival History of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (1985-2005/2006)”
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Emma Steen
“Why the 90s Were so Sexy: locating sexuality, pleasure and desire in work produced by Indigenous women identified artists during the 1990s and early 2000s in Canada”
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Tricia Herman
“The Phallus, Excess and "Lack" in Police Brutality”
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Wenjie He
“Designing the Multilingual: Summer Olympic Sports Pictograms and Universal Design in Cross-cultural Context”
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Cierra Frances
“Creating Learning Communities: an analysis of public events at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Toronto Biennial of Art”
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Evelina Domeikyte
“Gender in Motion: Exceeding Heteronormative Codes in Salsa Dancing”
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Emily Dickson
“The Fine Art of Bureaucracy: Interfaces with Bureaucracy in Contemporary Art”
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Emily Cadotte
“Agonistic Possibilities in Ontario’s Regional Galleries, A Proposition”
2019
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Katherine Walker
“Re-framing Tradition in Cai Guo-Qiang’s Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 metres: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 10 (1993)”
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Rachelle Sabourin
“In the Pursuit of Permanence, Is There Only Persistence? Contemporary Graffiti Practices in Toronto”
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Samantha Robbie-Higgins
“The Chartreuse David: A Florentine Souvenir, Michelangelo's David and the Lens of Kitsch”
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Alessia Pignotti
“Unsettling Spaces: Sensing the Affect of Un-calm”
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Madeleine McMillan
“Surface Memory: Understanding the Uncanny through the Use of Projection in Adrian Stimson’s Bison in the Bowl: This is Indian Land (2005)”
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Juan Escobar-Lamanna
“Why Speed Matters: Collective Action and Participation in Speedrunning Groups”
2018
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Yilong Liu
“Confronting Ambiguity: The Intersection of Racial and Sexual Marginalisation and Repression in Rex vs Singh (2008) and Seeking Single White Male (2010)”
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Emily Lawrence
“Made with Love: Tracing Personal and Cultural Resilience in Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings”
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Kate Kolberg
“Enduring Naïveté: Art & Hellenism in a Global-Turn”
2017
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Sophie Ratcliff
“Neo-Kingly Things: Contemporary Furniture in the Restricted Field”
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Emilie Uzoma Jacob
“Concrete Maternality: Late Capitalism and High-Rise Horror”
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Rodrigo Barriuso Gonzalez-Mora
“Tania Bruguera: Beyond the political, Towards Collective Decoloniality”
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Henrique Alves de Assis
“Be YourSELFIE: The Meanings of Gay Bodies on Instagram”
2016
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Alina Tigountsova
“Occupy! Activate! Engage! The Politics of Visuality in Occupy Wall Street”
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Theresa R Slater
“Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects”
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Treva Pullen
“Whimsical Bodies: Agency and Playfulness in Robotic Art”
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Claudia Andrea Ortiz
“Spatial Awareness in Locative Media Projects”
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Cydney Langill
“Embodiment and the Digital Continuum: Post-Cinematic Diffractions in Ex Machina, Her, and Under The Skin”
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Archana Dalmia
“Anish Kapoor: Embedded Impressions of Indian Culture”
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Katherine N Connell
“Objects in Human Drag: The Queerness of Object-Oriented Ontologies”
2015
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Samuel Strong
“The Comic's Heartbeat: Framing Affective Structures in Comics History”
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Melanie Schnidrig
“Seeing Beyond the Visual: Sensory Perception and Synesthesia in Contemporary Installation Art”
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Marianne Fenton
“Interrogating Accents: Brendan Fernandes, Katarina Zdjelar and Nicoline van Harskamp”
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Pamela Carlson
“Idea or Individual? Indigenous self-representation and narrative: Shannon Masters’ Empire of Dirt as a Case Study”
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Brittany Higgins
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Jennifer Snyder
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Melanie Girwood
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William Fraser
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Marysa Maharani
2014
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Tara Akitt
“Get Your Mind Outta the Gutter: Actor-Network Theory and Panel Layout in Comics”
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Ali Bassidji
“A.N.T, Agency and Cinematic Authorship”
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Behnaz Djabarouti
“Cultural Displacement: Gender and the design of identity of the Iranian diaspora, from Iran to Toronto -‐ 1979 to 2013.”
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Nathan Heuvingh
“Sampling Beyond Sound: Contemporary Sound Art and Popular Music”
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Terry Jenkins-Bricel
“A Gallery of Culture in Our Times: Julia Peyton-Jones and the Serpentine Pavilions”
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Kaja Erika Jorgensen
“Sapologie: Performing Postcolonial Identity in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
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Rusiko Lomtatidze
“Spectacular Castration: Labiaplasty as Body Negation in the Age of Globalization”
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Alex McLaren
““I’m touching myself” An Investigation of Ann Hirsch’s Twelve”
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Hyeyun Park
“Performance Art as Mirroring Identities: As Examination of Nikki S. Lee's Projects (1997-2001)”
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Martha Robinson
“Sheepish: Posthumanism and the ovine in contemporary art”
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Amanda Roy
“New Media as a Platform for Indigenous Self-Representation and Socio-Political Activism: As Seen Through TimeTraveller™ and Skins”
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Rosalba Uriega Gutierrez
“Rafael Lozano-‐Hemmer: Exploring Mexican Identity in Interactive Media”
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Roberta Schultz Santos
“PANTONE: Identity Formation Through Colours”
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Gorana Tolji
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Liza Wallman
“Indigenous Hip Hop as a Tool of Decolonization: Examining Nicholas Galanin’s Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan Part One and Two and Kevin Lee Burton’s Nikamowin (Song)”
2013
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Vanessa Mae Bateman
“Why Look at Dead Animals? Taxidermy in Contemporary Art”
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Jessica Cappuccitti
“G.I. Jane Doe: Witnessing War in the Exhibition Overlooked / Looked Over”
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Valerie Krizan
“Now You See Me, No You Don’t: Lorna Simpson and a Pin-Up’s Photographs”
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Chunmei Li
“Crafting Modern China: the Revival of Yixing Pottery”
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Julie Matheson
“Performing (Inter)Nationalism: The Restoration of the Český Krumlov Castle Theatre”
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Yvonne Nowicka-Wright
“Seduced by Form: Aesthetics of Spectacle in Contemporary Art Museum Architecture”
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Alison Snowball
“Immaterialities of Dematerialization in Contemporary Art and Finance”
2012
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Kimberly Armstrong
“Andrew Kuo’s Ironies: The Influence of Social Networking on Contemporary Identity and Self-Representation”
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Laura DiMarco
“Commodity Production as Social Stimulus in Vik Muniz’s Brazilian Art Practice”
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Cheryl Dipede
“Canadian Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s: The Shaping of a Profession”
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Javier Ruiz Sandoval
“Teresa Margolles: Death in Venice… Literally”
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Meyung Joh-Carnella
“Generative Connections: Affective Links in the Media Works of Cathy Sisler and Lindsay Seers”
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Beverly Joan Kelly
“The Journey Home: An Examination of Hybridity and Place in the work of Brian Jungen”
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Christine Kim
“The Art of (Dis)Playing Video Games: Theory Meets Praxis”
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Caoimhe Morgan-Feir
“Spinning a Yarn of Bioart and Labour”
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Yoanna Terziska
2011
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Adriana DiLonardo