Claire Allan Dinsmore | |
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Born | 1961 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Jeweller, designer and new media artist |
Claire Allan Dinsmore (born 1961) is a new media and crafts 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]
Dinsmore's artwork 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 Institution, The Montreal Museum of Art, and The Dorsky Museum.[3]
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]