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Felt sentiments: The representation of invisible struggles through wearable sound

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Felt sentiments: The representation of invisible struggles through wearable sound

Tchilinguirian, Patil (2020) Felt sentiments: The representation of invisible struggles through wearable sound. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Through research-creation, this thesis presents imaginative perspectives from which critical stories about the “hidden Armenians” can be told and worn on the clothed body. These stories embed notions of Armenian collective memoires of cultural loss, and illustrate the complex relationship between cultural identity, oppression and expression, as they negotiate hidden political information to unveil unknown histories of suffering. These stories are materialized through textiles, which when enhanced with wearable technologies, become an archival interface that store tactile and acoustic material. In this project, tactility and sonification are used and intertwined to transform the clothed body into a space for cultural dialogue where narratives of social justice can be transmitted. As a result, alternative modes of cultural transmission are manifested by the marriage of the clothed body with fabric speaker technologies to elicit an emotional and immersive experience that accommodates representations of invisible struggles through wearable sound. Sound is employed to mitigate the tensions of visibility and to echo silenced voices, all the while amplifying the political struggle of the unheard to wider audiences. As such, this thesis postulates on the possibility of embedding a multilayered and non-linear system of meaning on the clothed body, further enhanced by wearable technologies, to create transcendental interpretations of wearable space. Seeking to inspire new questions and ideas on the different ways research-creation can engender alternative modes of cultural durability and transmission, through a practice-based and practice-led process, the corpus of work in this thesis evolved with an iterative design methodology that combed craft and technology as a creative process to interweave interactive storytelling and textile design.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Fine Arts > Design and Computation Arts
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Tchilinguirian, Patil
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.Des.
Program:Design
Date:1 June 2020
Thesis Supervisor(s):Langshaw, pk
Keywords:Wearable sound, wearable technologies, electronic textiles, hidden Armenians, the Leftovers of the Sword
ID Code:986921
Deposited By: Patil Tchilinguirian
Deposited On:25 Nov 2020 16:20
Last Modified:25 Nov 2020 16:20
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