Making Strange

dc.contributor.advisorLattanzi, Barbara
dc.contributor.advisorContino, William
dc.contributor.advisorScheer, Joseph
dc.contributor.advisorChen, Xiaowen
dc.contributor.authorUnderwood, Mathew
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-08T16:22:28Z
dc.date.available2019-11-08T16:22:28Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.descriptionThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.en_US
dc.description.abstractMy work deals with translation. What happens when information moves into a different framework / technology / media? What aspects get amplified, diminished, resonated, distorted, shifted, remapped, or broken? Self expression is not of interest to me, I am more interested in what is revealed when something is pushed to its limit. How does this activity of translation make us question and reimagine our conventional ideas of proper use and aesthetic value? As Marshall McLuhan famously said in 1964, “the medium is the message”. Now more than ever we all need to retask ourselves with becoming literate of our cultural landscape. Content enacts itself differently upon us depending on the medium or form it takes. My practice reflects heightened sensitivity to what is generally invisible to our perception of the everyday. The work of “making strange” opens up the senses to an odd and untraditional beauty.en_US
dc.format.extent93 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10829/23517
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofScholes Libraryen_US
dc.rightsThe author has granted Alfred University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other rights.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://libraries.alfred.edu/AURA/termsofuseen_US
dc.subjectMFA thesisen_US
dc.subjectElectronic Integrated Artsen_US
dc.subjectMulti-channel videoen_US
dc.subjectSnodgrass Galleryen_US
dc.subjectInstallations (art)en_US
dc.subjectArduinoen_US
dc.subjectProjectionen_US
dc.subjectCeramicen_US
dc.subjectPaintingen_US
dc.subjectLaser cuten_US
dc.subjectSculptureen_US
dc.subjectBook arten_US
dc.titleMaking Strangeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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