The Embedded American Artist

As our world ramps up the speed of its connections, our identities merge with increasing speed and angles of confluence. Not only are new identities created, but also the more fringe social and cultural elements of our world are exposed to mainstream consciousness. My work is a product of my own fringe background (namely its sheer breadth of experiences not normally visited upon a single person's life). My aim is to add variables to our social and cultural speed of combination and new variety by creating work that is derived from my own experiences to speak to those who are of the newer combinations and newer social recognition. I am motivated to create this work both to perpetually define and redefine myself, and also to give ground to an ‘identity of no identity' on a global scale, to our artistic dialogue and catalog.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.F.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Fine Arts

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Chaffin, Jason Edward

Contributors dc:contributor

• H.J.Richard
• Jenkens, A.Lawrence
• Gertjejansen, Doyle

• Chaffin
• Art
• Sculpture
• Identity
• Fringe
• Culture
• Fugue
• Transience
• Demographic
• Category
• Biography
• Performance
• Fraternity
• Déjà-Vu
• Material-specificity
• Technology
• Connectivity
• Memory
• Idiom
• Character
• Iteration
• Diaspora

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1162

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2145