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A hypermedia and Project-based approach to Music, Sound and Media Art Koutsomichalis, Marinos G. This thesis describes my artistic practice as essentially project-based, site-responsive and hypermediating. Hypermediacy—i.e. the tendency of certain media or objects to keep their various constituents separate from their structure—is to be understood as opaque, juxtaposed and after a recurring contiguity with different kinds of interfaces. Accordingly, and within the context of the various projects that constitute this thesis, it is demonstrated how, in response to the particular places I work and to the various people I collaborate with, different kinds of materials and methodologies are incorporated in broader hybrids that are mediated (interfaced) in miscellaneous ways to this way result in original works of art. Materials and methodologies are shown to be intertwined and interdependent with each other as well as with the different ways in which they are interfaced, which accounts for an explicitly projectbased, rather than artwork-based, approach which, on its turn, de-emphasises the finished artefact in favour of process, performance, research and exploration. Projects are, then, shown to be explicitly site- or situation- responsive, as they are not implementations of preexistent ideas, but rather emerge as my original response to the particular sites, materials, people and the various other constituents that are involved in their very production. Interfaces to such hybrids as well as their very material and methodological elements are also shown to be hyper-mediated. It is finally argued that such an approach essentially accelerates multi-perspectivalism in that a project may spawn a number of diverse, typically medium-specific and/or site-specific, artworks that all exemplify different qualities which are congenital to the particular nature of each project. De Montfort University 2015-12 Thesis or dissertation Doctoral PhD en http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11432 https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstreams/16fefe9c-d67e-41bc-aa68-64ee09a23a1b/download 9941dadd5e657f7eb5964148206e0264 https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstreams/9bb04cde-9299-4e92-a8f2-7e7c055d6c2a/download 78074e3b8a5534add636297b434f123a https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstreams/f2861b32-8b47-4594-9a35-ac673263bbb0/download de8adb74f8c002dc4cd8045eda459ea8 sound art Media Art aesthetics hypermedia generative art art research research through design algorithmic art annotated portfolio Faculty of Technology