Biography

Artist, Carrie Ida Edinger’s current “collections” project is formed and defined by material culture methodologies, social and culturally based research, and visual documentation in a form of media, such as print media objects or video. Her studio art practice is an interdisciplinary engagement between contemporary art and observational processes related to anthropological methods. Carrie has her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. In 2003, Carrie was the recipient of the Emerging Artist Fellowship from the US State of Delaware for Works on Paper and Printmaking.

Illustrated Talk

Print Media Coupon as Artifact
The Print Media Coupon as Artifact demonstrates how the coupon collection is an artifact of the transitional process of the print media culture and the social interaction of exchange between a person and the printed object that is the coupon. The forming of the collection began by acknowledging that the form of the coupon is in an alternating state of being tangible (print media form) or intangible (stored digitally in an electronic device).

These transitions in media culture alter the participant’s participation in forming

115information. Nick Stevenson’s Understanding Media Cultures references historical transitions of the print media culture and the division of modes of communication that contributed or not to a form of participation .

The coupon’s expiration date is an aspect of space and time within the social interaction and communicative process within a community. The grouping of the coupon collection by the expiration date is referenced to Anthropologists who refer to the absences in artifact studies that pertain to social and cultural relations of the objects functionality .

As an artist, I have formed the coupon collection using material cultural methodologies such as social anthropology and archaeological curatorship , rather than using fine art methods of visual representation of printed images. The methods of archaeological curating will be practiced with present day print media resources instead of a museum institutions collection. The significance of the coupon collection is to analyze the printed objects as artifacts and cultural forms of the present day social interactions between mass consumption and print media culture.

Acknowledging and employing these material culture methods has enabled me to classify the coupon collection in broader cultural terms and understand the implications and limitations for the future development of other collections within my studio art practice.

Poster Presentation

Print Media Coupon as Artifact 
The Print Media Coupon as Artifact demonstrates how the coupon collection is an artifact of the transitional process of the print media culture and the social interaction of exchange between a person and the printed object that is the coupon. The forming of the collection began by acknowledging that the form of the coupon is in an alternating state of being tangible (print media form) or intangible (stored digitally in an electronic device).
These transitions in media culture alter the participant’s participation in forming information. Nick Stevenson’s Understanding Media Cultures references historical transitions of the print media culture and the division of modes of communication that contributed or not to a form of participation .
The coupon’s expiration date is an aspect of space and time within the social interaction and communicative process within a community. The grouping of the coupon collection by the expiration date is referenced to Anthropologists who refer to the absences in artifact studies that pertain to social and cultural relations of the objects functionality .
As an artist, I have formed the coupon collection using material cultural methodologies such as social anthropology  and archaeological curatorship , rather than using fine art methods of visual representation of printed images. The methods of archaeological curating will be practiced with present day print media resources instead of a museum institutions collection. The significance of the coupon collection is to analyze the printed objects as artifacts and cultural forms of the present day social interactions between mass consumption and print media culture.
Acknowledging and employing these material culture methods has enabled me to classify the coupon collection in broader cultural terms and understand the implications and limitations for the future development of other collections within my studio art practice.