Arts-Based Inquiry

This chapter examines how arts-based methods informed how this dissertation engaged with medicine's visual culture. Using three media art projects developed in the exploratory phase in research as case studies, this chapter outlines methods and approaches other arts-based researchers may apply to their own investigation.

Section: 1: Introduction

In the introduction to the chapter on arts-based research methods, this chapter reflects on previous artworks developed by the author. In doing so, this section defines an approach to creative methodologies in research that emphasize iteration and critical reflection.

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Section: 2: Terminal Imaginaries & Tuberculous Imaginaries

This section examines two media art installations developed by the author in 2021 and 2022. These projects show a shifting approach to opaque methodologies, and a changing understanding of ethics in the history of medicine.

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Section: 3: Dermographic Opacities

Using the photo essay 'Dermographic Opacities' as its case study, this section delineates how media art installations were applied to a born-digital, web-based photo essay.

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Section: 4: Tactical Pretensions

Reflecting on the three projects outlined in the previous sections, this conclusion thinks through an issue when arguing for new methodologies: how can arts-based research be used in new scholarship, if it is not necessarily better than or superior to already establish humanistic methods?

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