Undefinition

Miller, Geoffrey Owen

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Undefinition

dc.contributor.advisor	Shona Macdonald
dc.contributor.author	Miller, Geoffrey Owen
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	Art
dc.date	2023-09-22T19:58:30.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T20:58:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T20:58:18Z
dc.date.issued	2009-01-01
dc.date.submitted	2009-May
dc.description.abstract	This essay is an introduction to the context and processes of ‘undefinition’ in the work of the author. Through fragmentation of the original image, the depicted image problematizes identification. Gaps in the portrayal allow for personal interpretation to bias the definition in order to make our perception visible. Definitions are the means of power, and we primarily order and define the world visually. Foucault describes this as Panoptic technology. Unless we learn to understand how we see individually, authoritarian definitions will remain the de-facto means of operating powerfully.
dc.description.degree	Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7275/836806
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/46403
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1360&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	Fine Arts
dc.subject	painting
dc.subject	identity
dc.subject	order
dc.subject	definition
dc.subject	power
dc.subject	panoptic
dc.subject	Art Practice
dc.subject	History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
dc.subject	Philosophy
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	Social and Behavioral Sciences
dc.subject	Social Psychology
dc.subject	Sociology
dc.title	Undefinition
dc.type	campus
dc.type	article
dc.type	thesis
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