COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Quod Nomen Mihi Est?
Work Title (variant):
What Is My Name?
Image Title:
full view of wall-recessed diorama
Work Dates (display):
1998
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2012-03-07
Work Creator (display):
Paul Pfeiffer (American, born 1966)
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966, but spent most of his childhood in the Philippines. Pfeiffer relocated to New York in 1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Pfeiffer's groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. In a series of video works focused on professional sports eventsincluding basketball, boxing, and hockeyPfeiffer digitally removes the bodies of the players from the games, shifting the viewer's focus to the spectators, sports equipment, or trophies won. Presented on small LCD screens and often looped, these intimate and idealized video works are meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. Many of Pfeiffer's works invite viewers to exercise their imaginations or project their own fears and obsessions onto the art object. Several of Pfeiffer's sculptures include eerie, computer-generated recreations of props from Hollywood thrillers, such as "Poltergeist," and miniature dioramas of sets from films that include "The Exorcist" and "The Amityville Horror." Pfeiffer is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, most notably becoming the inaugural recipient of The Bucksbaum Award given by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000). In 2002, Pfeiffer was an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas. In 2003, a traveling retrospective of his work was organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (Art 21 website
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 2006
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Subject:
displays
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displays
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Work Subject:
interpretation
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interpretation
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Work Subject:
dollhouses
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dollhouses
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Work Subject:
bedrooms
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bedrooms
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Work Subject:
sculptures (visual works)
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sculptures (visual works)
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Work Subject:
furniture
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furniture
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Work Subject:
reproductions (derivative objects)
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reproductions (derivative objects)
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Work Subject:
privacy
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privacy
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Work Worktype:
dioramas
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dioramas
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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Work Measurements (display):
10 in (H) x 16 in (W) x 18 in (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Collection of Lois Plehn
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
site
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-8109-4609-2
Image Source Reproduction page number:
195
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© The Project New York and Los Angeles
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
©Paul Pfeiffer
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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