Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: MA Pitch (Draft)" is a Master's project rejected before it even started.In October 2023, near the beginning of my second year in my PhD program, I was told that an MA exam that did not fit the norms of traditional scholarship would not be passed, and that the current project I had pitched would need to be reworked into a traditional paper.The project in question was critiquing how the standards of traditional scholarship (writing and presentations) flatten 3D objects and limits them to single orientations, ignoring their unique, virtual physicality.Initially envisioned as a virtual gallery or game, this idea would not be possible in a paper format, and a non-paper project would not be recommended to advance, therefore I began the immediate, and somewhat terrifying, process of applying to other programs.Using Blender, photography, journal entries, illustration, and glitch work, this .blendfile is a record of the overlapping personal, professional, and political actions that non-traditional and creative scholarly work requires.This 3D model, a copy of my bedroom-studio-study-space in graduate housing at the University of California, Irvine, is a site where many of my administrative woes have been contemplated, and a place that is now embedded and representative of this process.I invite users to play with, break, and change this Blender file, see all the little bits and pieces that would have been lost from this 3D space if it had been locked into a screenshot, and what would have vanished from both my work and my scholarly practice if I had abandoned this project altogether.
Author: Elliot Yu
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4413398274