I must be streaming
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Doody, Jorden Blue
issued: 2021-06-21T21:50:25Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Master of Fine Arts - MFA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This supporting paper investigates the process and outcomes of my thesis art exhibition I Must Be Streaming held at the Kelowna Art Gallery. My MFA thesis exhibition and research paper investigate how contemporary culture responds to notions of presence and absence of the body in the digital age where illusion, escape and distraction are at the forefront of the collective consciousness. Through a practice led research, I engage in a wide variety of creative processes including sewing, felting, woodworking, mural painting, and post digital design. By presenting a group of artworks that are the result of both traditional and contemporary studio processes I am uncovering new areas of knowing while connecting my artistic practice to the rich interdisciplinary context of feminist research. My main objective for this written research is to acknowledge the visual language and supporting context that has emerged from the overlapping aspects of installation art and the concept of site specificity. With the rising tide of online digital communities, I am interested in how culture instinctively shares experiences using key attributes and theories of relational aesthetics. By examining the importance of touch and how our four senses were once engendered in a hierarchical manner dividing men, women and nature my research explores ecofeminism and aligns the parallel inequalities that women and nature have shared under the reign of capitalism. This topic leads me to discuss the desensitization of touch through the digitally mediated aspects of our social lives where we remotely communicate with one another on a regular basis. By creating an immersive installation, it is my aim to welcome the viewer as a crucial catalyst that activates the works of art in a dream scene sequence of experiences. Through the examination of spatial aesthetics, fabricated objects, and the mediated image, my thesis explores the tangibility of sharing tacit knowledge and embodied experience through networ…
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/78746
note: I MUST BE STREAMING by Jorden Blue Doody B.F.A., The University of British Columbia, 2008 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS In The College of Graduate Studies (Visual Arts) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) May 2021 © Jorden Blue Doody, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: I Must Be Streaming submitted by Jorden Blue Doody in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Fine Arts. Renay Egami, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisor Michael V. Smith, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Suzanne Gott, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Emily Murphy, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner iii Abstract This supporting paper investigates the process and outcomes of my thesis art exhibition I Must Be Streaming held at the Kelowna Art Gallery. My MFA thesis exhibition and research paper investigate how contemporary culture responds to notions of presence and absence of the body in the digital age where illusion, escape and distraction are at the forefront of the collective consciousness. Through a practice led research, I engage in a wide variety of creative processes including sewing, felting, woodworking, mural painting, and post digital design. By presenting a group of artworks that are the result of both traditional and contemporary studio processes I am uncovering new areas of knowing while connecting my artistic practice to the rich interdisciplinary context of feminist research. My main objective for this written research is to acknowledge the visual language and supporting context that has emerged from the overlapping aspects of installation art and the concept of site specificity. With the rising tide of online digital communities, I am…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0398482
language: eng
degree discipline: Visual Arts
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Egami, Renay
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78746