The Presence of Palestinian Female Visual Artist in New Media Arts: Map's Iconography, Diaspora's Memory, and Aesthetics of Identity
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https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i5.872Keywords:
Palestinian contemporary art, visual media, creative media, criticism of art & communication media, Palestinian aesthetics, sociology & psychology of visual artsAbstract
Objectives: This paper aims to investigate the Palestinian women's experience in new media arts by analyzing the creative process of three Palestinian female artists. Driven by an aesthetic attitude that deconstructs the elements of Visual Culture in Popular Media and then reconstructs them in new creative media.
Methods: The current research philosophy utilizes a meta-critical analysis to investigate the authorship of the artists' aesthetic attitude towards media representing Palestinian symbolisms/narratives in the displacement spaces that create visual impacts on their contemporary artistic practices. Accordingly, the methodology employs a meta-critical Qualitative Content Analysis that re-connects map iconographies in the artworks with the artists' individualities as they respond to their visual environments.
Results: The artists focused on the map iconographies in contemporary Palestinian arts to exclude the contents of mainstream media as the addressed female artists deconstruct and reconstruct the symbolisms of the Palestinian issue and its connotations through new creative media. In the twenty-first century, expressing identity is a social action practiced elevating communal harmony and peace. In comparison, the expression of identity is an act of cultural resistance among Palestinian artists.
Conclusions: The impact of this study is present through the significance of Palestinian women’s art as a contemporary research subject. This subject manifested significant implications in research and academic experimentation as Palestinian artists stood aesthetically and culturally to prevent the occupier's actions of iconoclasm against Palestinian heritage.
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