Master of Arts in Visual Arts
Claudia Mazzotta
Master of Arts in Visual Arts
Stitching as Registration: labouring over maternal care
Whilst conducting an artistic practice in the home I am constantly manoeuvring to balance the workload of motherhood and artist. This project seeks to respond to the inquiry: How can stitching as a contemporary textile practice register the unseen labour and time of mothering?
In response to this question, three monumental, stitched artworks were created which record the unseen labour of life as a mother and artist. The labours of the home are rendered in an intricate, embroidered artwork that tallies these efforts onto large-scale fabric substrates composed of reclaimed antique cotton pillowcases and vintage cotton threads. Conducted around the kitchen table, my artistic practice occurs between, around and after mothering duties.
My research has been guided by the theoretical frameworks of first and second wave feminism, matricentric feminism and the history of embroidery and samplers. Through my practice-led research, ways of subverting the stereotype of mother and artist have been examined, making visible the unseen labour of the mother. My work transcribes a mother’s laborious day into a textile artwork, made in a private domestic setting, for display in a public domain such as a gallery. This artwork honours and makes visible the unseen labour of mothers everywhere.
Keywords: Motherhood, textiles, labour, repetition, domestic setting, feminism.
Kanishka Gupta
Master of Arts in Visual Arts
This project explores the experience of the home and the crossover of space and place, being central to the occurrence of a liminal state, a temporality that is both space and place yet neither. Through the use of photography, the works abstract the familiarity of home and interpret it through an index of light and shadow and aim for the audience to reconsider their relationship to self and home.
Master of Design
Yutong Bian
Master of Design
College students are increasingly troubled by the inability to reasonably manage the use of social media. As a third-party application, Super APP makes rational use of a wide range of social media resources for the purpose of locking college students to effective content in a valuable time. Through background data filtering and intelligent searches, it introduces a new user experience to college students.
Chen Xu
Master of Design
Chinese romantic movie posters have become the starting point for this research. By interacting with posters, studying the influence of visual communication design on the media's treatment of Chinese female body images or visualizing more diversified aesthetic standards, it focuses on adjusting female body image and appearance, including skin tone, face shape, figure, freckles and age.
Gongbo Jiang
Master of Design
The title of the zine,「喜乐」in Mandarin has the double meaning of "delighted to hear and see" and "Joyful mood". "Xǐ Lè", is a zine created for Chinese youth to show how they can obtain happiness.
Yaoqi Si
Master of Design
The "Visually Impaired & Safety in China" website is a knowledge popularization platform for the visually impaired and ordinary people. Its main functions are: collecting data, surveying questionnaires, sharing cases, etc. The project hopes to help the visually impaired to speak out and change the status quo by popularizing the travel difficulties of the visually impaired.
Elnaz Aslani
Master of Design
This study speculated two different scenarios around digitalise physical and verbal cues. ‘Ahura’ is an auto assistant tutor who assists university students when they are confused and it can bring up information to them and help them during their online lecture. It also reports the educational state of the online students to teacher to help instructors adjust the speed of the class.
Mengqi Sun
Master of Design
Emotional eating is becoming more common in modern life. Positive and negative emotions lead to eating behaviours detrimental to good health. Mood Chips is a new snack option designed for emotional eaters, with healthy ingredients to reduce the risks of emotional eating. Combining important packaging design features of high-calorie food, Mood Chips are designed to support emotional eaters.
Jiachen Xu
Master of Design
This proposes the application of a human-centred design approach to focus on user demands and experiences when designing an app aimed at seniors. Outcomes of this project will help designers to come up with better solutions to address seniors’ loneliness and enhance their well-being.
Keywords: Loneliness of the elderly, Mobile app design; Human-centred design; Practice-led research.
Thi Minh Khue Tran
Master of Design
Recently in South Australia, farmers and governments have promoted the IPM approach in growing vegetables. The study takes a practice-based approach to developing the communication designs for IPM products and introduces the brand: BUGTACUS which includes a generated brand identity, posters, animation videos, pamphlets.
Keywords: Integrated Pest Management, agriculture marketing, communication design.
Vivi Chen
Master of Design
Lifeboat is a website designed for young people to alleviate anxiety caused by social isolation during COVID-19. Lifeboat symbolises the hope of saving people in trouble. It is designed to engage people with the daily activities of exercise, meditation, movie recommendations, daily scheduling, a chat room and message board to connect, creating balance and assisting in the alleviation of anxiety.
Dongchen Hou
Master of Design
The lack of interest and understanding of traditional tea culture among young Chinese people today means this traditional culture is being lost. This project uses visual design to engage young Chinese people’s interest and understanding of traditional tea culture. YUECHA is a traditional tea brand created for young Chinese people, using a modern design style to create a unique visual experience.
Rongxin Yue
Master of Design
This project used online shopping addiction as a research topic, creating the app Thinking Pay as a solution. Thinking Pay is a unique application that combines online shopping and a third-party payment application platform into one. It has features to help users alleviate their online shopping addiction, reminding those who are not yet addicted to shopping appropriately.
Lin Sun
Master of Design
This project explores the impact of discarded clothing on the development of a sustainable environment, using the proposed RF Camera technology, a popular information carrier. It allows for a visualization of the donation process, showing what happens to clothes after they have been donated. This gives the user a sense of achievement, enhancing user experience and encouraging recycling practices.
Danqi Xiao
Master of Design
In today's society, people are increasingly concerned about the topic of fitness. Due to the development of technology and the improvement of living standards, people are pursuing a more scientific approach to health. Fitbug has been created to increase engagement and enjoyment in the area of fitness through the use of Avatars, in a personal fitness app.
Herny Xu
Master of Design
With the development of society, contemporary Chinese people's requirement for the living environment is becoming much higher than before. The target of the project is to develop a new typology for interior design that merges traditional elements with contemporary contexts. In addition, the final outcomes include a professional booklet and posters.
Zhang Hanxue
Master of Design
Young Chinese people's knowledge and engagement of Chinese traditional festivals has been impacted by globalisation. New technologies can motivate young people to engage and participate in these traditional festivals. The "Festive Calendar" App combines traditional Chinese festivals and AR interactions, to conveyed knowledge to users, arousing interest and encouraging participation in the festival.
Coco Hsiao
Master of Design
This project investigates the environmental impacts associated with the production of paper waste within allied health. ‘Better Access’, a digital solution was created as an outcome of case study research. Better Access is a mobile app and desktop software program that allows patients and practitioners to access medical records electronically, eliminating the need of physical documentation.
Sunny Jiang
Master of Design
This project explores the integration of global culture into Australian master-level design education. Using traditional Chinese folk culture as an example, the work includes a toolkit for educators to broaden students' cross-cultural horizons and aims to reduce cultural bias. Courses will be displayed on the website, as well as posters and trifold brochures in a personal exhibition.
Since I was born in China, I studied design and lived in Korea for 5 years, and I am studying for my second postgraduate course in Australia now. During my studies in Korea, my major was mainly in media design and visual communication design, which also included some graphic design studies. When I was studying Korean language, I discovered the uniqueness of this language. I once tried to bring Korean language into my design works to show its artistic sense. Therefore, these experiences made me think about exploring the relationship between culture and learning. As a researcher for this project, this has also prompted me to have a strong interest in how to integrate different cultures from all over the world into design education.
Awarded the Geli Excellence Award, Griffith English Language Institute, Griffith International.
Master of Interactive Media
Rahul Suresh Pillai
Master of Interactive Media
To design a Visual-Haptic Outdoor Sports Training Solution that can be used within the personal spaces and at the comfort of your homes in this pandemic affected era. The product is specially designed to consumers, with a sports background and for those are starting out at a certain sport, to train indoors.
Angela Goh
Master of Interactive Media
‘Waiting for Spring’ is an immersive, AR storytelling experience that explores ephemeral affects associated with site-specific, performative works. The story cards take you on an audio-led journey, and follows the story of Emma, who finds herself reminiscing the loss of her love at their favourite café in the suburbs. Audiences are required to use their mobile phones to engage with the experience.
Carr Zheng
Master of Interactive Media
New technologies are constantly introduced in Education improving teaching and learning experiences. AR technology can bring new opportunities for teaching through multi-sensory experiences, increasing the engagement of students by combining visual environments and real objects. CTC is an AR application, developed to allow users to experience Chinese traditional clothing in a more engaging way.
Royce Liu
Master of Interactive Media
An important issue plaguing China's economic development is the imbalance between rural and urban development, with poverty alleviation and rural revitalisation gaining attention. 5G Cloud Farm is an app that helps farmers manage their crops and land, using emerging technologies that can improve the efficiency of agricultural work and help regional populations to collaborate and share prosperity.
Akshya Aravind Anand
Master of Interactive Media
My work explores interactive lighting using biomimetic generative designs that showcase the dynamic patterns within nature. Natural patterns within controlled settings such as cymatics, inspire my designs and intrigues my enthusiasm for the physical patterns that evolve from the waves of sound. This allows me create generative designs where the brush is held by nature in itself.
I did work on an internship with MYND Initiative, making suggestions for event planning and design. It was very educational and I learnt quite a lot about mental health services.
