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Owens, Rachel
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Spring 2025
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2025
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This project explores generational identity and technological transformation through a triptych structure; Then, Now, and The Twins. Interweaving personal narrative, critical theory, and digital media, it examines how nostalgia, social media, and algorithmic culture have shaped a sense of self over time. Beginning with childhood attachments to the Nintendo DS and early internet culture, it traces the shift from analog play to digitally mediated adulthood marked by disillusionment, performance, and surveillance. Drawing on thinkers such as Nam June Paik and Hito Steyerl, the text critiques the emotional and epistemological consequences of living through screens. The final section, centered on the sculpture The Twins, embodies the binary between low-fidelity memory and hyper-detailed digital presence, suggesting that identity today exists in the unresolved space between nostalgia and data. This work is both a reflection and a reckoning – a coming-of-age story shaped by pixels, platforms, and the ghosts of technology past.
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