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Title
Access Type
Open Access
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
January 2007
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
video, truth, truthtelling, lying, confessional art
Abstract
This thesis explores the experience of telling and constructing truths and lies, and receiving and interpreting truths and lies within the context of contemporary culture. This thesis both augments and is founded in the production of the digital video In the Absence Of, itself an exploration of truth, self and identity.
First Advisor
Susan E. Jahoda