DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/2E3G-QH19
Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0001-7665-4797
Defense Date
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Photography and Film
First Advisor
Jon-Phillip Sheridan
Second Advisor
Mark Boulos
Third Advisor
Nicole Killian
Abstract
This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic developments must be framed within the post-Internet sphere.
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VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-8-2018
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