Teresa Chen.
Independent artist
Visual artist USA / Switzerland
Shifting Identities
About the Research
"Shifting Identities" is an exploration of how media (e.g. film, television, photography, Internet) and migration affect [contested] concepts of identity and ethnicity. This research will analyze visual representations of difference in media and explore how institutional structures (political and representational) affect knowledge about cultural difference. The author is interested in examining concepts of diaspora and cultural hybridity as models of integrating pluralistic views and plans to compare historical and current forms of media and art as communication tools and exhibitions for these views.
About the Researcher
Teresa Chen was born in USA and has degrees in Computer Science (Brown
University) and Photography (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst
in Zurich). She has worked as a software developer and has been active
in the conceptualization and organization of various exhibition projects:
KLINIK: Morphing Systems, (Zurich), GameOver (Museum für Gestaltung,
Zurich), sWISH*, (expo. 02, Biel). She lives and works in Zurich,
Switzerland, as an independent visual artist.
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