Date of Graduation

5-2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts in Art (MFA)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Art

Advisor/Mentor

Musgnug, Kristin A.

Committee Member

Faur, Amjad

Second Committee Member

Mazow, Leo G.

Third Committee Member

Swartwood, Larry

Keywords

Communication and the arts; Original artwork

Abstract

Pixel; Ghost is an exhibition of video and sound installations that explore the creation, change, and degradation of memory, transitional states of mind, and family. The pieces are structured around cinematic clichés such as dream sequences, flashbacks and establishing shots, using them as a language to translate personal experience into something more universal.

In my work, Pixel refers to the individually active component of a larger system. A pixel itself changes and has its own characteristics, though these are ultimately subservient to its role in the larger system of a screen. The purpose and meaning of a pixel comes not from its internal content but from its spatial and time-based context.

Ghost refers to memory and its active function in the present. Memory is inherently tied to video; watching recorded moments of the past can be a séance, bringing the past into the present where its meaning will change depending on the surrounding circumstances of the remembering.

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