The Evolution of the Body in Contemporary Art and Digital Media: Asger Carlsen, Julie Rrap, Leah Schrager, Juliana Huxtable

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dc.contributor.advisorMansfield, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorMowbray, Alexandra
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Art Historyen
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDigital media has fundamentally altered the way the body in contemporary art is represented and viewed inside the museum and gallery and on the screen. From technical production facilitated by photographic editing to global visibility by an interactive audience, the myriad platforms of digital media have created a contemporary visual culture that reflects a shift from body-consciousness to body-centricity. While social networking sites have fostered inclusive communities shaped by bodily images and identities, technological advancements that manipulate and fragment the body have empowered artists to question and critique the enduring lure of corporal objectification and truth in an age of increased visual presence, physical difference, and cultural diversity. This thesis seeks to examine how the creative processes and fields of display peculiar to the digital age have influenced the representation and reception of the body in the contemporary digital age of the twenty-first century. It investigates the impact of digital media, including social media, on the making and meaning of the body as a concept in the artistic practice of four contemporary artists of different generational (‘Baby Boomer’, ‘Generation X’, and ‘Millennial’) and gender perspectives: Asger Carlsen; Julie Rrap; Leah Schrager; and Juliana Huxtable. Despite the shared concentration on bodily representation using a digital lens, each artist amplifies a unique aspect of contemporary body culture derived from the digital landscape of filmic affect and the materiality of screen violence, feminist discourses on body objectification and commodification, the sexualised body and online pornography, and bodies contextualised by queer and racial politics. These changes in digital culture and process have resulted in contemporary interpretations of the abject, uncanny, and grotesque, and encouraged the emergence of the online persona.en
dc.description.dissertationThesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Art History, 2023en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/138534
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dc.subjectsocial media, body, contemporary art, digital media, fourth wave feminism, Asger Carlsen, Julie Rrap, Leah Schrager, Juliana Huxtableen
dc.titleThe Evolution of the Body in Contemporary Art and Digital Media: Asger Carlsen, Julie Rrap, Leah Schrager, Juliana Huxtableen
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