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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
- E-mail
- nic AT nicolerademacher.com
- 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
- Copyright Ownership
- Nicole Rademacher
- 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.