A Digital Home for Athabasca's Images: Reading Illegible Oil Sands Territories
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This thesis investigates the Athabasca oil sands as a site removed from the public's perception. As a result of physical distance and specialization, the oil sands are perceived dominantly through images circulated by artists, activists, and industry. The image-based experience constructs an illegible territory on paper and screens, stemming from a site whose complexities resist representation. Through this research, I will analyze the perception of sites that are not directly experienced and create a visual infrastructure for oil sand representations already widely circulated, that are 'siteless' in the imagination of those for whom the site is off-limits. Architecturally, this work will focus on the role of scale in transitioning images from inaccessible realities to highly disseminated paper spaces, and onwards to the imagination. How can we read this land and what are the challenges and limits of representational media?
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Copyright © 2019 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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