Intermediality as a Tool for Disseminating Socio-Political Issues: A Critical Examination of Artistic Intention, Process, and Audience Reception
In my artistic research project, I explore how intermedial artworks—works that integrate multiple media in an interwoven form—serve as tools for mediating socio-political issues, particularly within critical data studies and feminist frameworks, based on the scholarship of danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Angela Davis and Judith Butler.
My inquiry is guided by key questions: How does the intent of political dissemination shape artistic choices and in which ways does the dissemination unfold within an intermedial work? How is the boundary between mediation and propaganda defined within an intermedial work? And how does artistic research on intermediality intersect with critical data studies and feminist frameworks?
To address these questions, I employ a qualitative methodology grounded in auto-ethnography and interviews. Through three case studies, I analyze the interplay of intention, process, and reception, investigating how aesthetic strategies mediate socio-political concerns and, in turn, shape artistic practice. By critically engaging with the artistic process, this research contributes to discussions on the role of art as a mode of critique and a site of transformation, offering new ways to navigate, question, and reimagine intermediality as a tool for socio-political dissemination.
First supervisor: Univ. Prof. Andreas Weixler, ABU
Second supervisor: Dr. Leopold Dick, HKB
Biography
Anda Kryeziu born in 1993 in Kosovo is a composer, performer and intermedial artist. Her music has been performed at various festivals, such as: ECLAT Festival, Munich Biennale, Neue Musik Rümlingen, Darmstädter Ferienkurse Monstra Sonora Valencia, November Music etc. In 2023 her Opera PERSONA after the film from Ingmar Bergmann was premiered, as a cooperation between Theater Basel and Gare du Nord. She has received several scholarships and prizes, including the 69. Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart 2024, the price of Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin and the Akademie Musik Theater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation. Her music is currently being released as a CD portrait by Edition Zeitgenösische Musik Katalog. She currently works as a lecturer at the Hanns Eisler School of Music. Her works focus on various genres such as instrumental music, multimedia and music theater.