Date of Award
Spring 5-1-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Paul Soulellis
Second Advisor
Alicia Chang
Third Advisor
Clement Valla
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Abstract
Digital dualism, a term coined by Nathan Jurgenson in 2012, suggests that there is a divide between physical off-line and digital on-line realities. With the influence of social media on how people network there is a shift in how we understand this play between realities. Jurgenson believes that the divide is, in fact, a fallacy. Boundaries between the physical and digital are fluid and overlapping. We are working out a new spatial paradigm and system of exchange.
This thesis takes as its focus how our bodies are interpreted and reformed continuously in relation to the network and the discourse. Putting into view the ways in which our body traverses through physical and digital spaces allows for an understanding of how on line networks and infrastructures affect our conceptualizations of the embodied self, human identity, and our role within these structures.
The incentive of this thesis is to make multiple critical interventions that show how the body in relation to the network is built from a series of conditions. Conditions that include: the exchange of the body within the network, archiving the body, and the porous nature of our corporeal body and digital body.
Recommended Citation
Recht, Sarah Jean, "Over Several Networks: Designing Intimate Technologies" (2016). Masters Theses. 1512.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1512
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Comments
Additional Masters Examination Committee members / advisors: Bethany Johns and Benjamin Shaykin.