UN/WIND UN/WOUND: Metaphor, embodiment, and meaning-making in the digital age

dc.contributor.authorCain, Noah
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeLea, Graham (Curriculum, Teaching, & Learning)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHoneyford, Michelle (Curriculum, Teaching, & Learning)
dc.contributor.supervisorWatt, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T22:13:57Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T22:13:57Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-25
dc.date.submitted2024-03-25T23:18:40Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineCurriculum, Teaching and Learningen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education (M.Ed.)
dc.description.abstractIntegrating research on embodiment (Baber, 2022; Lakoff & Johnson, 2003; Shapiro, 2019), memory (Glenberg, 1997), trauma (Culbertson, 1995), new media (McLuhan, 1994), and multiliteracies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009), this arts-based research explores the use of smartphone technology as a means of embodied artmaking. Using an adapted version of the methodology of artography (Irwin, 2013) based on the practice of paddling, I developed two research-supported artistic practices. The first involved recording myself enacting metaphors I had previously written in my poetry as a means of developing an embodied understanding of the metaphor. The second involved composing poetry orally while engaged physically (running, skating, etc.). The results of these practice came together through the creation of a 24-minute experimental film. I showed this film to a public audience in a classroom I converted into an immersive video installation that included three handmade screens and several atmospheric elements. In this thesis, I discuss the video/event and the artmaking process through four themes, (1) enacting metaphors to facilitate the development of an embodied understanding of those metaphors, (2) instances of the liminal during embodied creative practice, (3) the ways smartphone technology extends perception and memory outside the body, and (4) wonder and the spiritual in the context of embodied artmaking. Integrated through the discussion are propositions (Manning & Massumi, 2014) related to contemporary education and arts-based research.
dc.description.noteMay 2024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/38099
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectembodiment
dc.subjectarts-based research
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectmultiliteracies
dc.subjectmemory
dc.subjectdigital media
dc.subjecttrauma
dc.subjecteducational technology
dc.subjectmetaphor
dc.subjectartography
dc.subjectliteracy
dc.subjectmeaning making
dc.subjectconceptual metaphor
dc.subjectenglish language arts
dc.subjectteaching writing
dc.subjectcreativity
dc.subjectnew media
dc.subjectsmartphone
dc.subjectembodied metaphor
dc.titleUN/WIND UN/WOUND: Metaphor, embodiment, and meaning-making in the digital age
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayes
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