Abstract
This thesis presents six web-based tools built for audiovisual or audio performance, alongside a portfolio of works developed and performed with them. The research investigates the notion of a creative performance practice that utilises website-making as its medium, and “the web” as its critical subject.Central to this research is the concept of ‘critical technical practice’, understood here as an approach wherein a critical inquiry into the technologies used to make a work forms the main conceptual theme of that work. In a critical technical practice technologies are not treated as neutral tools but as systems with social, political, and cultural consequences to be examined, challenged, and commented on.
The works draw on live coding, net art, and non-idiomatic improvisation as conceptual and aesthetic influences, and engage with cultural and political issues relating to the contemporary web.
| Date of Award | 30 Jun 2026 |
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| Original language | English |
| Supervisor | Alex Harker (Main Supervisor) |