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Sui Generis 

Digital ink jet prints on canvas (2005-2006)
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Swallow (50 x 90 inches)
Corpus Escapement (73 x 50 inches)
​Neither/Nor  (36 x 44 inches)
Sui Generis is a series of self-portraits that locate the body as a fanciful machine with hints of technological tropes that suggest a relational functionality totechnology. The body is a fine machine, a perfect machine that persists regardless of the weak will of the mind.
Swallow and Corpus Escapement are based on the X-ray imagery of my swallow-test - a visual assessment of my newly sculpted stomach. Shortly after surgery I was wheeled to the x-ray room and given a barium substance to swallow. I was mesmerized as the liquid snaked through my gastro-intestinal system and painted my insides with a chalky white trail. "Take the pictures quick, it's not going to stay down." I warned the technician as my body rejected the alien white substance.  In Neither/Nor the fatty layer of my cranium has been molded into the boolean NOR symbol. Inspired by the idiom "neither fish nor fowl," I reveal the complexity of what I may or may not be. I'll leave the arguments blank for others to fill.

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  • Pamela L. Jennings, PhD (WORK)
  • SPEAKING
  • PROJECTS & RESEARCH
    • DIGITAL MEDIA + CODE >
      • CONSTRUKTS
      • speaks volumes
      • book of ruins & desire
      • solitaire: dream journal
      • constellations
    • VIDEO + SOUND >
      • sleep now
      • pumpelly scat
      • I've Never
      • dance & the camera
      • the silence that allows
      • ACT-UP - Target City Hall
    • VISUAL COMPOSITION >
      • sui generis
      • folded spaces
      • lateral movement
      • play
      • dream
      • decisive moment
      • digital re-mix
  • LEADERSHIP PORTFOLIO
    • RESEARH & EDUCATION POLICY >
      • NAS- Branches from the Same Tree
      • NSF - CreativeIT Grant Program
      • NSF/NEA - Art + Technogy Workshops
      • NAS- Speculative Data Exhibition
      • NSF - Creativity Support Tools Workshop
      • ISEA - Helsinki Agenda
      • New Media Arts | New Funding Models
    • RESEARCH & EDUCATION PROGRAMS >
      • NCState - A2W
      • UNC - Center for Design Innovation
      • SAIC - Shapiro Center
  • About
  • Contact
  • Pamela L. Jennings, PhD (WORK)
  • SPEAKING
  • PROJECTS & RESEARCH
    • DIGITAL MEDIA + CODE >
      • CONSTRUKTS
      • speaks volumes
      • book of ruins & desire
      • solitaire: dream journal
      • constellations
    • VIDEO + SOUND >
      • sleep now
      • pumpelly scat
      • I've Never
      • dance & the camera
      • the silence that allows
      • ACT-UP - Target City Hall
    • VISUAL COMPOSITION >
      • sui generis
      • folded spaces
      • lateral movement
      • play
      • dream
      • decisive moment
      • digital re-mix
  • LEADERSHIP PORTFOLIO
    • RESEARH & EDUCATION POLICY >
      • NAS- Branches from the Same Tree
      • NSF - CreativeIT Grant Program
      • NSF/NEA - Art + Technogy Workshops
      • NAS- Speculative Data Exhibition
      • NSF - Creativity Support Tools Workshop
      • ISEA - Helsinki Agenda
      • New Media Arts | New Funding Models
    • RESEARCH & EDUCATION PROGRAMS >
      • NCState - A2W
      • UNC - Center for Design Innovation
      • SAIC - Shapiro Center
  • About
  • Contact