Shifting Surfaces: Developing a Visual Language with Emergent Patterns and Abstracted Bodies

Shifting Surfaces is an MFA thesis exhibition comprised of screenprints and sculptures. The written thesis contains documentation of the exhibition and a selection of related works, focusing on the progression of research and artmaking which led to the development of a new visual language. Shifting Surfaces employs emergent phenomena and abstraction to evoke the enmeshed relationship between bodies, ecology, and technology.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Technologies

Department dc:contributor.department

Art and Art History

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Hammer, Sarah Christine

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• King, Nathan

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Blanchard, Samuel Paul
• Thompto, Chelsea
• Lechner, Amanda Louise

• Art
• Emergence
• Moiré
• Queer
• Ecology
• Mesh
• Abstraction
• Screenprint
• Sculpture
• Hologram

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:40916

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/119503