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

  • AnnaLiisa Olilla Gison

    “The Sacred and Profane Dichotomy in the Art of Warhol and Serrano”

  • Katherine Pretti

    “Visual Manifestation of Things Unseen: Relating Abstraction and Trauma”

2022

  • Kyrie Robinson

    “Fragmented storytelling in Lynda Barry’s graphic memoir One! Hundred! Demons!”

  • Razieh Einypourfazli

    “Contemporary Black Choreo-Performers: Intersecting Bodies, Dis/Placement, Race”

  • Hannah Dickson

    “Performing Agency - Contemporary Burlesque and the Feminist Gaze”

  • Maya Burns

    “Ways of Looking: Appropriation in Annie MacDonell’s Originality and Repetition”

2021

  • Cassandra Gemmell

    “The Metrics of Monstrosity & the Visuality of Crime Detection; from the Victorian era’s Photographic Archive to Artificial Intelligence”

  • Lucia Wallace

    “Drop my heart like an urn; dissolve my skin like it’s clay: Dichotomies of Destruction & Creation; the Material & the Intangible”

  • Tanner Serson

    “Understanding Creative Canada: Cultural Policy, Public Sentiment, and Digital Tax Reforms”

  • Stefania Saraiva

    “Conflicting Modernities: Venezuelan art in the 1950s and 1960s”

  • Delilah Rosier

    “Chosen Family Values: Examining the Creative Practices of Kiera Boult, Madelyne Beckles, Kalale Dalton-Lutale and Cason Sharpe”

  • Priscilla Pham

    “Representations and Reality: Defining the Ongoing Relationship between Anime and Otaku Cultures”

  • Victoria Milne

    “Mario Santamaria’s Trolling Google Art Project: Critical Explorations in Google’s Museum Views”

  • Muxuan Hua

    “Borderlessness: teamLab, Immersive Experience, and New Media Installation Art”

  • Julian Golden

2020

  • Erin Szikora

    “Visual Sovereignty and the Making of NIIPA: Tracing an Archival History of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (1985-2005/2006)”

  • 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”

  • Tricia Herman

    “The Phallus, Excess and "Lack" in Police Brutality”

  • Wenjie He

    “Designing the Multilingual: Summer Olympic Sports Pictograms and Universal Design in Cross-cultural Context”

  • Cierra Frances

    “Creating Learning Communities: an analysis of public events at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Toronto Biennial of Art”

  • Evelina Domeikyte

    “Gender in Motion: Exceeding Heteronormative Codes in Salsa Dancing”

  • Emily Dickson

    “The Fine Art of Bureaucracy: Interfaces with Bureaucracy in Contemporary Art”

  • Emily Cadotte

    “Agonistic Possibilities in Ontario’s Regional Galleries, A Proposition”

2019

  • 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)”

  • Rachelle Sabourin

    “In the Pursuit of Permanence, Is There Only Persistence? Contemporary Graffiti Practices in Toronto”

  • Samantha Robbie-Higgins

    “The Chartreuse David: A Florentine Souvenir, Michelangelo's David and the Lens of Kitsch”

  • Alessia Pignotti

    “Unsettling Spaces: Sensing the Affect of Un-calm”

  • 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)”

  • Juan Escobar-Lamanna

    “Why Speed Matters: Collective Action and Participation in Speedrunning Groups”

2018

  • Yilong Liu

    “Confronting Ambiguity: The Intersection of Racial and Sexual Marginalisation and Repression in Rex vs Singh (2008) and Seeking Single White Male (2010)”

  • Emily Lawrence

    “Made with Love: Tracing Personal and Cultural Resilience in Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings”

  • Kate Kolberg

    “Enduring Naïveté: Art & Hellenism in a Global-Turn”

2017

  • Sophie Ratcliff

    “Neo-Kingly Things: Contemporary Furniture in the Restricted Field”

  • Emilie Uzoma Jacob

    “Concrete Maternality: Late Capitalism and High-Rise Horror”

  • Rodrigo Barriuso Gonzalez-Mora

    “Tania Bruguera: Beyond the political, Towards Collective Decoloniality”

  • Henrique Alves de Assis

    “Be YourSELFIE: The Meanings of Gay Bodies on Instagram”

2016

  • Alina Tigountsova

    “Occupy! Activate! Engage! The Politics of Visuality in Occupy Wall Street”

  • Theresa R Slater

    “Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects”

  • Treva Pullen

    “Whimsical Bodies: Agency and Playfulness in Robotic Art”

  • Claudia Andrea Ortiz

    “Spatial Awareness in Locative Media Projects”

  • Cydney Langill

    “Embodiment and the Digital Continuum: Post-Cinematic Diffractions in Ex Machina, Her, and Under The Skin”

  • Archana Dalmia

    “Anish Kapoor: Embedded Impressions of Indian Culture”

  • Katherine N Connell

    “Objects in Human Drag: The Queerness of Object-Oriented Ontologies”

2015

  • Samuel Strong

    “The Comic's Heartbeat: Framing Affective Structures in Comics History”

  • Melanie Schnidrig

    “Seeing Beyond the Visual: Sensory Perception and Synesthesia in Contemporary Installation Art”

  • Marianne Fenton

    “Interrogating Accents: Brendan Fernandes, Katarina Zdjelar and Nicoline van Harskamp”

  • Pamela Carlson

    “Idea or Individual? Indigenous self-representation and narrative: Shannon Masters’ Empire of Dirt as a Case Study”

  • Brittany Higgins

  • Jennifer Snyder

  • Melanie Girwood

  • William Fraser

  • Marysa Maharani

2014

  • Tara Akitt

    “Get Your Mind Outta the Gutter: Actor-Network Theory and Panel Layout in Comics”

  • Ali Bassidji

    “A.N.T, Agency and Cinematic Authorship”

  • Behnaz Djabarouti

    “Cultural Displacement: Gender and the design of identity of the Iranian diaspora, from Iran to Toronto -­‐ 1979 to 2013.”

  • Nathan Heuvingh

    “Sampling Beyond Sound: Contemporary Sound Art and Popular Music”

  • Terry Jenkins-Bricel

    “A Gallery of Culture in Our Times: Julia Peyton-Jones and the Serpentine Pavilions”

  • Kaja Erika Jorgensen

    “Sapologie: Performing Postcolonial Identity in the Democratic Republic of Congo”

  • Rusiko Lomtatidze

    “Spectacular Castration: Labiaplasty as Body Negation in the Age of Globalization”

  • Alex McLaren

    ““I’m touching myself” An Investigation of Ann Hirsch’s Twelve”

  • Hyeyun Park

    “Performance Art as Mirroring Identities: As Examination of Nikki S. Lee's Projects (1997-2001)”

  • Martha Robinson

    “Sheepish: Posthumanism and the ovine in contemporary art”

  • Amanda Roy

    “New Media as a Platform for Indigenous Self-Representation and Socio-Political Activism: As Seen Through TimeTraveller™ and Skins”

  • Rosalba Uriega Gutierrez

    “Rafael Lozano-­‐Hemmer: Exploring Mexican Identity in Interactive Media”

  • Roberta Schultz Santos

    “PANTONE: Identity Formation Through Colours”

  • Gorana Tolji

  • 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

  • Vanessa Mae Bateman

    “Why Look at Dead Animals? Taxidermy in Contemporary Art”

  • Jessica Cappuccitti

    “G.I. Jane Doe: Witnessing War in the Exhibition Overlooked / Looked Over”

  • Valerie Krizan

    “Now You See Me, No You Don’t: Lorna Simpson and a Pin-Up’s Photographs”

  • Chunmei Li

    “Crafting Modern China: the Revival of Yixing Pottery”

  • Julie Matheson

    “Performing (Inter)Nationalism: The Restoration of the Český Krumlov Castle Theatre”

  • Yvonne Nowicka-Wright

    “Seduced by Form: Aesthetics of Spectacle in Contemporary Art Museum Architecture”

  • Alison Snowball

    “Immaterialities of Dematerialization in Contemporary Art and Finance”

2012

  • Kimberly Armstrong

    “Andrew Kuo’s Ironies: The Influence of Social Networking on Contemporary Identity and Self-Representation”

  • Laura DiMarco

    “Commodity Production as Social Stimulus in Vik Muniz’s Brazilian Art Practice”

  • Cheryl Dipede

    “Canadian Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s: The Shaping of a Profession”

  • Javier Ruiz Sandoval

    “Teresa Margolles: Death in Venice… Literally”

  • Meyung Joh-Carnella

    “Generative Connections: Affective Links in the Media Works of Cathy Sisler and Lindsay Seers”

  • Beverly Joan Kelly

    “The Journey Home: An Examination of Hybridity and Place in the work of Brian Jungen”

  • Christine Kim

    “The Art of (Dis)Playing Video Games: Theory Meets Praxis”

  • Caoimhe Morgan-Feir

    “Spinning a Yarn of Bioart and Labour”

  • Yoanna Terziska

2011

  • Adriana DiLonardo