Claire Dinsmore

Claire Allan Dinsmore (born 1961) is a new media artist and crafts artist.

Dinsmore was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1961.

Dinsoore completed her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA from Parsons School of Design/The New School for Social Research. She began her artistic career as a jewellery artist, moving later to net art and hypertext. She worked with the trAce Online Writing Center and is a freelance designer of Studio Cleo.

Artwork
Dinsmore artwork work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her work is also in the permanent collections of the American Craft Museum, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Montreal Museum of Art, and The Dorsky Museum.

Writing
Dinsmore founded and published Cauldron & Net, a collection of electronic literature, from 1997 to 2002. These files are now being served on The NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space, an online digital repository and museum.

Pronunciation: 'fut' or: A tool and its means, in Riding the Meridian, 1997. N. Katherine Hayles writes that this work "renders the fetishized and fragmented female body as culturally scripted technology.

The Dazzle as Question in frAme, 2000 and restored in The NEXT.