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]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lewin, Susan Grant (1994). One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today. H.N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-3198-5.
  2. ^ a b c d "Claire Dinsmore | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  3. ^ a b c "ELO State of the Arts Symposium: Claire Dinsmore". eliterature.org. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  4. ^ Nadine, Desrochers (30 April 2014). Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture. IGI Global. ISBN 978-1-4666-6003-8.
  5. ^ "Claire Dinsmore". mfah.org.
  6. ^ "Cauldron and Net".
  7. ^ Hayles, N. Katherine (1997). ""Open-work: Dining at the Interstices"". Heelstone Press.
  8. ^ "The Dazzle as Question". The NEXT. Retrieved 2024-04-08.