Graduation Year

2025

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Media Studies

Reader 1

Alessia Lupo Cecchet

Reader 2

Nancy Macko

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Abstract

This paper accompanies a short film demonstrating the role of chance and randomness in media consumption. From the rejuvenating qualities of unpredictability, to the transformative process of meaning-making that occurs in collaboration with randomized media, there are many beneficial aspects to the chance occurrence for the artistic mind that I explore in my film, A Chance of Worms. The format of my video piece draws heavily on the chance experiments of Surrealists like Duchamp in combination with the use of televisual signals and receptors as the mediums of chance as utilized by video artist Nam June Paik. The theoretical concepts I explore are derived mainly from experiences described by André Breton and the meaning-making facilitated by his found objects as well as the theories of funneled consumption developed by Gary S. Cross.

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