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Descriptions and Reflections on my Artistic Output from 8/14 to 4/17

Catalano, Tess Elliot

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2017, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
This paper is a written account and analysis of my artistic production over the past three years as a graduate student in Art and Technology at The Ohio State University in the Department of Art. The work I have produced exists as objects, installations, and situations in real and virtual space to explore power, value, gender, and desire in cultural phenomena and personal experience. Each piece is conceived of viscerally, constructed cerebrally, and results in manipulated replicas aimed at questioning the idolization of the originals. In Part I, I lay out the ideological categories important as threads weaving through my body of work and describe broadly how they manifest in my practice. These ideas are based on critical theory as well as lived experience. Influential texts I’ve read or re-read recently in preparation for this paper are listed in the bibliography. Part II is a chronological narrative account of each piece or series of work I made prior to my thesis project, how each was made and why, in relation to the themes presented in Part I. Part III is a reflection on my thesis work What is Love? (Don’t Hurt Me), an interactive video game installation, which was exhibited in Thesis: The MFA 2017 Thesis Exhibition.
Ken Rinaldo (Advisor)
Roger Beebe (Committee Member)
Dani Leventhal (Committee Member)
53 p.

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  • Catalano, T. E. (2017). Descriptions and Reflections on my Artistic Output from 8/14 to 4/17 [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492634105617535

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Catalano, Tess. Descriptions and Reflections on my Artistic Output from 8/14 to 4/17. 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492634105617535.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Catalano, Tess. "Descriptions and Reflections on my Artistic Output from 8/14 to 4/17." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492634105617535

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)