Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item Navigating in the synthetic void: a hardboiled investigation(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2022) Pomarico, Thomas John; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Rollin BeamishSociety is in the midst of a rapid and drastic shift of ontological perception. Technological advancements in connectivity have altered the rhythm and scale of life due to media saturation, social media, and surveillance. The success of these viral technologies has many obvious benefits; however, they also harbor malicious tendencies when left unchecked. Prescience visions of dystopia by authors George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and David Foster Wallace, once seemingly outlandish, have now become apparent. Shosana Zuboff's 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' published in 2018 would have read as science fiction 25 years ago. As a temporary panacea to the pace of technological engagement, I offer the creative process as a way to alter duration. Using 1940s and 1950s film noir as a metaphor for the environment and challenges of the modern artist. Through this examination a code of conduct emerges to navigate the disruptive pitfalls of media addiction. Construction of the art object involves a multistep conceptual and physical practice guiding behavior away from excessive technological encroachment. My research paper aims to elucidate this process and its potential benefits to an outside observer.Item Threading Between Worlds(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2008) Renner, Stephanie Rose; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Richard HelzerThe artworks in this series are my accounts of a deaf woman's experience in a world that constantly pulls her back and forth between two very divergent sides. The images on each panel tell stories about my subjective experiences and in narrating them, I chose images that are easy to recognize and to interpret about my life as a deaf woman and the obstacles I often face in reconciling the worlds of the deaf and the hearing. The themes of unity and balance are also present, and speak to both my affinity with quilt making in both traditional and modern styles and my personal history of constantly changing positions between the deaf and hearing worlds.