Keywords

fan studies, avatar, media studies, video game, gender and video games, fan art

Abstract

“Making Art for the Love of the Game” interweaves visual aesthetics from video games and associated online fan community practices with self-portraiture to reflect and process personal past medical trauma, a developmental period in online interactive environments, and showcases self-expressive fan content which joins an underrepresented and emerging sub-culture to contemporary art. Working through an interdisciplinary studio practice, combining printmaking, found-sticker collage, and painting refracts digital aesthetics found in online communities. I intentionally juxtaposed these physical modes of making with digital subjects to examine these subjects’ merit as artistic mediums.  It reflects a contemporary mode of art making, and acts as preservation for these communities as the digital world generationally and constantly moves forward.

Completion Date

2026

Semester

Spring

Committee Chair

Burell, Jason

Degree

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

College

College of Arts and Humanities

Department

School of Visual Art and Design

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

Identifier

DP0053257

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