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Cultivating Territories and Historicity: The Digital Art of Skawennati

Hancock, Mary T
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396530332

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2014, MA, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Art History.
Skawennati Tricia Fragnito is a digital artist whose work emerged in the 1990s and continues to involve themes of colonialism through Internet communities and narrative. This study examines the artist’s Internet artworks, first looking at CyberPowWow (1996-2004) and Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (2008-) as virtual gathering places to discuss possibilities of using the Internet as an alternative place for First Nations and Native Americans to show artwork. In her Webworks, such as the TimeTravellerTM (2007-) series and Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2000-2001), Skawennati reworks historical notions of the past to expose colonialism from the perspective of a Native character. The most recent body of work, 80 Minutes, 80 Movies, 80s Music, is a series of freely-distributed music video project hosted on the video sharing Website Vimeo that was founded in 2004, that explores the historic colonization of network television and music in the 1980s by undermining notions of nostalgia and broadens perspective onto current electronic colonialism. Skawennati’s work keenly exemplifies digital art’s participating and expansive possibilities for understanding territory, distribution and sharing of “space.”
Kimberly Paice, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Jordan Tate, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
Morgan Thomas, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
59 p.
Art History
Skawennati; colonialism; historicity; Internet art; Native American; First Nations

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  • Hancock, M. T. (2014). Cultivating Territories and Historicity: The Digital Art of Skawennati [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396530332

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hancock, Mary. Cultivating Territories and Historicity: The Digital Art of Skawennati. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396530332.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hancock, Mary. "Cultivating Territories and Historicity: The Digital Art of Skawennati." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396530332

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