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- 6Oliver, Marilène
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2025-01-01
My MFA thesis exhibition, entitled This Show is Trash, had its genesis in the Fall of 2020 when I first began collecting historical trash objects from the North Saskatchewan river valley in what is colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta. In the first half of the 20th century, waste was deposited...
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2025-01-01
WE WERE NEVER CIVILIZED We were sold on the packaging. Fed juicy ideals and glossy dreams, we gobbled it up. We were told to dream big -- that hard work and perseverance would pay off. Soaring optimism. Booming economies. Predictable weather. Everything and everyone in their place. We were...
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2025-03-01
Beyond the threshold of the large rolling doors is a gateway - in lies a trove of treasures: cases of can tabs, binders filled with antique coins, and wardrobes crowded with family mementos, hand written archives and obsolete technology. Each item had been deemed precious, meticulously stored to...
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2024-06-01
Oliver, Marilène, Smallwood, Scott
Abstract (from author, in quotation marks): "This paper delves into the aesthetics and ethics surrounding the collaborative virtual reality artwork, Your Data Body. Made using medical scan data as a metaphor for our ever-ex-panding bodies of intimate personal data, Your Data Body seeks to...
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2024-07-01
Oliver, Marilène, Smallwood, Scott
Abstract (from author, in quotation marks): This paper delves into the aesthetics and ethics surrounding the collaborative virtual reality artwork, Your Data Body. Made using medical scan data as a metaphor for our ever-expanding bodies of intimate personal data, Your Data Body seeks to challenge...
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On creating appropriate visual communication for the Tlicho community, stories, and culture
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In 2022, I began a creative collaboration with the Tlicho community, in the region of the Northwest Territories of Canada. As a visual communicator designer and researcher new to the country, I set out to help create an online tool for the Tlicho that would archive as well as visualize...
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Salutogenic Design: Bringing the ‘Person’ Into Personalization in Healthcare by Designing for Disabilities of the Hand
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Disability affects around 8 million people in Canada and around 1.3 billion people globally. Those who are disabled experience higher rates of obesity, physical and mental health conditions, and higher rates of poverty than those who are not. This thesis explores disabilities of the hand through...
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Digital Self-Tracking Technologies, Disordered Eating Behaviours, and Athlete Populations: Exploratory Research to Inform the Design of Future Technologies
Download2024-09-01
Background: Clinically diagnosed eating disorders, subclinical disordered eating, and their associated disordered eating behaviours can lead to serious and potentially life-threatening consequences (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2022; Deloitte Access Economics [DAE], 2020). Some...