Death or higher resolution: An experimental treatise on processes of inversion in art history and digital imagemaking in the contexts of women, lobsters, and the vanity of the technological precipice.

摘要

Through mass-produced custom objects, print and video that function as markers of performance, performance that functions as sculpture and documentary, and an art practice enacted through the body of a doppleganger named Lexie Mountain, my work explores crossings, inversions and systems of representation. In this document, I examine existing visual and critical structures that reinforce authenticity and authority, and bring into question methods by which meaning is placed upon the human female figure. I address issues of digital resolution and definition in image-making and comprehension, how detail informs aesthetic comprehension using examples in traditional oil painting and contemporary art, and the complex conjunctions where revisions of meaning can be made.