Juliet Davis | USA \"Pieces
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(\"Pieces of Herself\") is an exploration of feminine embodiment and identity in relationship to public and private space. Using a drag-and-drop game interface, viewers scroll through familiar environments (e.g., domestic, outdoor, work) to collect metaphoric \"pieces\" of the self and arrange them in compositions inside the body. As each piece enters the body, it triggers audio clips from interviews with women, music loops, sound effects, etc., so that layered narratives form. The project, which was inspired by Elizabeth Grosz\'s theories about embodiment, comments on social inscription of the body. The environments are composites of more than 400 photographs, the pieces include 40 vector drawings, and the audio clips include segments from interviews with 10 women.
www.julietdavis.com/studio/barbie.html Our four-decade fascination with the Barbie doll holds unsettling implications about how we view ourselves and our world, and how we attractively package even the most unnerving aspects of culture, from war to religion and reproductive technologies. This project’s selections are sequenced to represent major components of the “American Dream”, including “country”, “god”, and “self”. Feel free to visit the project online at: www.julietdavis.com/studio/barbie.html.
Juliet Davis (Assistant Professor of Communication at The University of Tampa) is a new media artist and writer focusing on sociopolitical issues of gender, desire, and media, with particular interest in cyberfeminism. Her work has appeared in the Tampa Museum of Art, FILE 2004, Dallas 500X, the Rhizome ArtBase and other venues. With an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College, an M.A.T. from Brown University, and a B.A. in Honors English from Indiana University, she has chaired media arts departments and owned her own multimedia development business. Feel free to visit her web site at www.julietdavis.com. |
