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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00093
- Thesis Title
- Stranger's images: Net Art and an-other representation
- Author
- Maria Victoria Guglietti
- E-mail
- mvguglie AT connect.carleton.ca
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master of Arts in Communication Studies
- Year
- 2004
- Number of Pages
- 117
- University
- University of Calgary
- Thesis Supervisor
- Dr. Brian Rusted
- Supervisor e-mail
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Communication Studies
- Copyright Ownership
- Maria Victoria Guglietti
- Languages Familiar to Author
- Spanish/English/Italian/French
- URL where full thesis can be found
- Keywords
- Net Art/ Epistemology/ Otherness
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- Stranger’s images: Net Art and another representation By María Victoria Guglietti This thesis explores the way in which the Internet facilitates artists in constructing an-other knowledge, defined as the deconstruction of a Modern and Western regime of knowledge/representation organized around the axis subject/object. Based on Fairclough’s three dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis I have analyzed nine on-line artworks and five months of on-line and face to face interviews with Canadian based on-line artists. The result was a reading of these works in terms of strategies of subversion. I argue that Net Art, art produced, exhibited and distributed for and on the Internet, constitutes a field where it is possible to observe Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) technology’s contribution to the deconstruction of binary oppositions such as self/other, body/mind, technology/nature. This thesis proposes a shift from traditional definitions of Otherness as the non-Self to a notion of Otherness as a locus for reflection, a third term, an “in-betweeness”.