The SAIC Thesis Repository is a digital archive of recent, print theses produced by the students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in November 2013, new theses are digitized as they are received by the library. Works in this repository can be read online from any location on the SAIC campus. Theses cannot be printed or copied from this repository, nor can texts be read off campus. (Only descriptive information and abstracts are available for browsing by outside visitors.) Archival paper copies of theses are kept in the SAIC/AIC libraries.
This thesis considers the work of artist Sammy Baloji in relation to recent trends in scholarship on the concept of an African photographic archive. In his Me moire series (2006), Baloji superimposes... Read more
This thesis is an analysis of the adaptive capacity of contemporary non-profit arts and cultural organizations. I will consider three organizations as case studies to animate this analysis: Hyde Park... Read more
The Administration of Artifacts as Cultural Display aims to understand how art museum policies affect museum administrators in the display of and education about art objects, and how policy ultimately... Read more
Beijing arts districts were protected after 2006 by a cultural planning strategy fostering the development of cultural creative industries. But under a new city plan in effect since the winter of 2016... Read more
This project-based thesis takes two tracks in exploring an evolution in organizational structure situated around the making and presenting of performance art in Chicago, following the organizational l... Read more
The contemporary art market is shifting away from its traditional gallery model, to an event-driven system where art fairs are slowly taking over. Not only fairs are a mirror of the market's tren... Read more
As art museums struggle to remain relevant they are moving beyond the traditional didactic toolbox and quickly adopting new avenues of interpretation aimed at improving visitor experience. Under its n... Read more
At present, existing discourse of digital solutions focuses primarily on the operations of for-profits, and yet there is clear, statistical evidence of rapid technological adoption in the non-profit s... Read more
This thesis idea began with the need to address the lack of academic arts administration programs in India, and through that exploration to develop a new paradigm for the development of the field in t... Read more
A fundamental change that art museums today have been noticing is the encouragement of audiences to actively shape their own self-directed experiences. This corresponds to what young visitors increasi... Read more
Performers, composers, directors, and writers of color, have historically been left out of the cannon of opera, being typecast or overlooked in favor of those who outwardly exemplify the predominantly... Read more
Increased mobility and mass immigration during the two decades on each side of the millennium have dramatically changed our society and understanding of contemporary culture. Giving rise to my project... Read more
Degree
Dual Degree: MA in Arts Administration & Policy & MA in Modern Art History, Theory, & Criticism
