DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/P4M5-9E07
Defense Date
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Roy McKelvey
Second Advisor
Laura Chessin
Third Advisor
Rebecca Conrad
Abstract
In this work, I discuss how global products/ identities are made, transported and consumed, and the inevitable ‘mis-’ in acts of transmission. This research ranges from the miscommunication in languages and linguistics, to the gap between production and consumption. I investigate how things and humans are misread, mispronounced, misfit and mistranslated when they traverse social and cultural borders, arriving at a place in between languages, holding on to and letting go of things that are familiar to neither and both cultures. This work explores diverse media such as publications, videos and installations, and examines how they maybe used to address such contexts as factory production, global trade, circulation and tracking of commodities as well as identities.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-10-2019