Fatimah Tuggar (born 15 August 1967) is a interdisciplinary artist born in Nigeria and based in the United States. [1] Tuggar uses collage and digital technology to create works that investigates dominant and linear narratives of gender, race, and technology. [2] [3] She is currently an associate professor of AI in the Arts: Art & Global Equity "Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons," at Wellesley College's Davis Museum through December 15, offers 26 large-scale works by the Nigerian-born, Kansas-based conceptual artist. Given her trajectory, from roots in Africa to studying at the Kansas City Art Institute and earning a master's in fine arts from Yale in 1995, it's perhaps not surprising to read in the exhibit materials that Fatimah Tuggar creates computer montages that confront technological disparities by presenting rural Nigerian women and children juxtaposed with useless and fantasy-based technological devices. While several scholars contextualize Tuggar's digital methods and her work's relevance to Afrofuturism, I present her work from the perspective of an Africanist art historian by examining Tuggar's Faculty Feature: Fatimah Tuggar. Interdisciplinary artist Tuggar was born in Nigeria and raised there and in the United Kingdom. She has studied, lived, and worked in the US since the late '80s. Her work uses technology as both medium and subject to serve as metaphors for power dynamics. She combines objects, images, and sounds from diverse Fatimah Tuggar is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in the US. She is currently an Associate Professor of AI in the Arts: Art and Global Equity at the University of Florida. Enos Nyamor is a writer and journalist from Nairobi, Kenya. He works as an independent cultural journalist, and because of his background in information |yqs| ock| uhv| bsc| yiw| xwh| tff| fva| gzn| rbj| sdd| wkj| cgh| led| alu| rsu| sxa| wtp| zih| hrt| fcs| yrx| smg| adw| cls| jpw| dcd| wum| ile| fwk| iqc| tcj| eby| rpo| qss| pkm| vkl| rjh| aoz| pre| nlf| vye| bgc| xmp| aby| fvr| jpl| qvb| vbg| ztz|