Date of Award
Spring 4-24-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art and Design
First Advisor
Craig Drennen
Second Advisor
John Decker
Third Advisor
Craig Dongoski
Abstract
Science/Fiction lays out the philosophical and personal underpinnings of the homonymous exhibition. The works shown are driven by an engagement with source materials ranging from the film, The Trial, to the experience of complexity and exclusion as it applies to certain genres of language. I explore themes of automatic authority, familiarity/unfamiliarity, and the experience of opacity using paint, photocopier, typewriter, and other methods. Through strategies such as exhaustive repetition and the intentional obfuscation of information, images and words are stripped of their original semantic freight.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/7035839
Recommended Citation
Adams, Nicholas, "Science/Fiction." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/7035839