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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00237
Thesis Title
The Ubiquity of New Media Forms Allows for More Pervasive Video Art to Occur: a look at new experimental documentary and its roots in consumer practices and experimental movements.
Author
Nicole Rademacher
2nd Author
3rd Author
Degree
MFA
Year
2008
Number of Pages
28
University
New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
Thesis Supervisor
Andrew Deutsch
Supervisor e-mail
adeutsch AT alfred.edu
Other Supervisor(s)
Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
Electronic Integrated Arts
Languages Familiar to Author
English, Spanish, French, Catalan
URL where full thesis can be found
Keywords
video art, experimental, documentary, consumer, new media, video, short, the Other, class, technology
Abstract: 200-500 words
Cameras and camcorders have become ubiquitous in Western society thus granting artists, professionals, and consumers the ability to create moving images. Simultaneously the omnipresent nature of camcorders hides them from our perception. The benefits of this invisibility through inundation allow for a different type of documentary to occur: one where the subjects are oblivious to the camera, not because they do not see it, but because they simply do not acknowledge it. Camcorders have become almost unperceivable and this has enabled me to produce a body of work that challenges ideas of video art, the gaze, the Other, and the familiar. It has allowed me to create the body of work An Infinite Ordered Set of Events. This body of work relies on Experimental movements, ethnographic film, and home movies for inspiration.