Graduation Year

2024

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Art

Second Department

Physics

Reader 1

Kasper Kovitz

Reader 2

Janet Sheung

Abstract

Technology, machinery, and the internet are integral to the way in which we conceive our lives in terms of how we work, how we play, and how we communicate with the greater world around us--all of which has been exaggerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each moment, our lives become much more automated through our use of and the growth of technology. In my work, I aim to explore aspects of automation that drive our society and the ways in which our social constructs such as gender and technology are informed by each other. To this end, I am building an inanimate but personified robot that enacts its art on the world around it. Through this work, I attempt to explore the boundary or lack of boundary between the self and our products, particularly in relation to machines and technology; I pair this with an obsession with oddities of the human body and ultimately a Frankenstein-ian whim to mechanize such a body in the creation of my cyborg.

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