Claire Dinsmore

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Claire Allan Dinsmore
Born1961
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Jeweller, designer and new media artist

Claire Allan Dinsmore (born 1961) is an American jeweller, designer and new media artist. [1] [2] Dinsmore was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1961. [2]

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Dinsoore completed her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from Parsons School of Design/The New School for Social Research. [3] She began her artistic career as a jewellery artist, moving later to net art and hypertext. [2] [4] She worked with the trAce Online Writing Center and is a freelance designer of Studio Cleo. [3]

Artwork

Dinsmore artwork work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum [2] and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. [5] Her work is also in the permanent collections of the American Craft Museum, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Instituion, The Montreal Museum of Art, and The Dursky Museum. [3]

Writing

Dinsmore founded and published Cauldron & Net, a collection of electronic literature, from 1997 to 2002. These files are now being served on The NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space, an online digital repository and museum. [6]

Pronunciation: 'fut' or: A tool and its means, in Riding the Meridian, 1997. N. Katherine Hayles writes that this work "renders the fetishized and fragmented female body as culturally scripted technology. [7]

The Dazzle as Question in frAme, 2000 and restored in The NEXT. [8]

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References

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