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Virtual and Physical Environments in the work of Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, and Olafur Eliasson

Tucker, Ashton
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337084536

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2012, MA, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Art History.
The common concerns of artists Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962), Doug Aitken (b. 1968), and Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) are symptomatic of key questions in contemporary art and culture. In this study, I examine key works by each artist, emphasizing their common interest in the interplay of virtual space and physical space and, more generally, their use of screen aesthetics. Their focus on the creative interplay of virtuality and physicality is indicative of their understanding of the fragility and uncertainty of physical perception in a world dominated by screen-based communication. In chapter one, I explore Pipilotti Rist’s Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) and argue that the artist creates work where screen based projection and installation are interrelated elements due to her interest in creating spaces that engage the viewer both physically and virtually. In chapter two, I discuss Doug Aitken’s work and argue that he democratizes the viewing experience in a more radical way than Pipilotti Rist. In the final chapter, I discuss the work of Olafur Eliasson as it relates to California Light and Space art and the phenomenological aspects of the eighteenth-century phantasmagoria. Informed primarily by phenomenology, this study argues that the artists share common aesthetic beliefs related to their generation of artists.
Morgan Thomas (Committee Chair)
Jessica Flores, MA (Committee Member)
Kimberly Paice, PhD (Committee Member)
88 p.
Art History
Pipilotti Rist; Doug Aitken; Olafur Eliasson; installation art; phenomenology; virtuality;

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  • Tucker, A. (2012). Virtual and Physical Environments in the work of Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, and Olafur Eliasson [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337084536

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tucker, Ashton. Virtual and Physical Environments in the work of Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, and Olafur Eliasson. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337084536.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tucker, Ashton. "Virtual and Physical Environments in the work of Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, and Olafur Eliasson." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337084536

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