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Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2016
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
Unstable Systems or Why Is My Junk So Raw? is an exploration in the raw aesthetics of exposed electronics; showing the complicated systems that make our everyday electronics work using the visual language of formalism to display these “broken” consumer electronics as art. The work in my thesis show explores the creative potential of death and impermanence through the failing of technology. The work in the exhibition combines my interest and childhood fascination in electronics as well as my experience with my father’s illness. Accidentally and intentionally broken TV’s and electronics are producing live glitches which emphasize the instability of these otherwise closed systems.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/8490991
First Advisor
Jenny Vogel
Second Advisor
Shona Macdonald
Third Advisor
Copper Giloth
Recommended Citation
Musgrave, David, "Unstable Systems or Why Is My Junk So Raw?" (2016). Masters Theses. 365.
https://doi.org/10.7275/8490991
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/365