New views on art, race, and technology
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Fatimah Tuggar
Home's Horizons
Renowned for work that layers binary code with handmade craft, Fatimah Tuggar is one of the most original, incisive conceptual artists of the digital age. Tuggar’s sculptures, photomontages, videos, and interactive works challenge romanticized notions of both ancient traditions and recent inventions.
description
Born in Nigeria and based in Kansas City, multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar (b. 1967) interrogates the systems underlying human interactions with both high-tech gadgets and handmade crafts. She seeks to promote social justice by implicating everyone in these systems, while playfully proposing new ways of seeing and making. Her work destabilizes the attachment to a single city, nation, or continent as a “home” in a world of migrants who may move between different kinds of homes. The essays here address Tuggar’s œuvre within the confluence of the histories of conceptual art, tech art, and African art. In an interview with curator Amanda Gilvin, the artist reflects on the resonance of her early works and the goals of her new experiments in Augmented Reality (AR).
press commentaries
In “Home’s Horizons” is cheerily pointed out how dichotomies are coded with social meaning, such as the supposed opposition between high-tech and handmade.
The Boston Globe
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Ed. Amanda Gilvin
In stock
Foreword by Lisa Fischman
Contributions by J.Bajorek, D.Collier, N.R.Fleetwood
144 pages, 70 colour illustrations
28.5 x 23 cm, hardcover
Contributions by J.Bajorek, D.Collier, N.R.Fleetwood
144 pages, 70 colour illustrations
28.5 x 23 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3316-5
Events
Wellesley
| Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Keywords
Sculpture, Digital Art, Interactive Art, Performance Art, 21st century, Contemporary Art
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