- 2-D animation
- 3-D animation
- Abstract
- Abstract Painting
- Alt. process photography
- Animation
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- Art History
- Arts Writer
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- Book arts
- Book Illustration
- Branding
- Calligraphy
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- Color Photography
- Comics
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- Commission
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- Curator
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- Digital 3-D modeling
- Digital Fabrication
- Digital Media
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- Documentary
- Eco-Art
- Editor
- Editorial photography
- Engraving
- Etching
- Event photography
- Fab Lab
- Fashion
- Feminist
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- Fiber Art
- Figure
- Film
- Film Photography
- Freelance
- Furniture Design
- Gallerist
- Game developer
- Garments
- Gender
- Goldsmith
- Graphic design
- Health and medical
- Home furnishing
- Identity Design
- Illustration
- Installation
- Interactive
- Interior Design
- Interior Painting
- Jewelry
- Kinetic
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- Landscape Architect
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- Model maker
- Monotype
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- Mural Artist
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- Performance art
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- Porcelain
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- Preparator/ Art Handler
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- Robotics
- Screenprinting
- Sculptor
- Sculpture
- Sign painter
- Social media
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- Stone
- Stop Motion Animation
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- Teaching artist
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Description
Our love for looking at a digital screen stems from our fascination of having a voyeuristic experience. The act of looking upon bodies that entertain our lust is readily accessible and encouraged by those who crave instant gratification, especially online. We have the power to choose what content to consume and lean toward subjects that validate our social and physical aspirations. The yearning to meet society's standard for beauty has led to a higher demand for extremely invasive procedures that alter the body permanently. My refusal to accept this reality prompted the creation of a new one that is critical of social media's effect on youth culture, body image, and the objective gaze by manipulating my body through discomforting actions. I hope I can further the deconstruction of our society?s normalized patriarchal and materialistic culture through performing with my body and surroundings to create a new reality is critical of popular culture by using its language. The first step in rejecting aesthetic medicine is addressing how we contribute to the power structures that have normalized it.
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Darby Olcott
BFA Student
Major: Photography
Graduation Year: 2018
Artist Statement:
Our love for looking at a digital screen stems from our fascination of having a voyeuristic experience. The act of looking upon bodies that entertain our lust is readily accessible and encouraged by those who crave instant gratification, especially online. We have the power to choose what content to consume and lean toward subjects that validate our social and physical aspirations. The yearning to meet society's standard for beauty has led to a higher demand for extremely invasive procedures that alter the body permanently. My refusal to accept this reality prompted the creation of a new one that is critical of social media's effect on youth culture, body image, and the objective gaze by manipulating my body through discomforting actions. I hope I can further the deconstruction of our society’s normalized patriarchal and materialistic culture through performing with my body and surroundings to create a new reality is critical of popular culture by using its language. The first step in rejecting aesthetic medicine is addressing how we contribute to the power structures that have normalized it.