Jenna Ann Altomonte is a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Her background originates in post-WWII art and theory, including postmemory discourse, trauma, and the Jewish Holocaust. Recent scholarly pursuits..
Jenna Ann Altomonte is a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Her background originates in post-WWII art and theory, including postmemory discourse, trauma, and the Jewish Holocaust. Recent scholarly pursuits involve diasporic performance, virtual technology, and video games. She is interested in how the technological evolution informs culture and serves as a medium for artists. Current research endeavors seek to connect representations of trauma to the virtual and cyber realms, focusing on artists from diasporic communities and spaces of unrest in the post-9/11 era.
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