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Fatimah Tuggar, Robo Makes Dinner Artist Statement: Borrowing from the realms of advertising, popular entertainment, folklore, and the experiential, I use technology as medium, subject, and metaphor. My goal is to explore the diverse effects of power dynamics on the realities and interdependencies of our lives. Assemblage, collage, and montage are central to my methods of exploration.

Fatimah Tuggar. Born, Kaduna, Nigeria. Nationality,

My Web-based interactive works allow participants to create their own collages by selecting backgrounds and animated elements. Participants temporarily facilitate the construction or disruption of non-linear narratives, blending their personal perceptions with set components to produce real-time conversations that can be fluid, resistant, or expansive.

I employ assemblage when working with objects. In these works, I address the implications of the juggling acts we perform as we adapt, modify, and are, in turn, modified by the devices and power systems that define our environments. She is a member of the art department faculty at the University of Memphis. Her collages and assemblages often combine West African and Western motifs or imagery to comment on technology and its impact on both cultures.

Her computer montages and video collages blend videos and photographs taken by the artist with found materials drawn from commercials, magazines, and archival footage. Tuggar is the recipient of prestigious accolades, such as the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, ; the W. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website.