Text by Anther Kiley • Photos by Anther Kiley and Cassandra Cisneros
The course set out to investigate translation between two and three dimensions, as practical technique, as rhetorical device, and as subject for critical inquiry. Responding to a series of readings and viewings, students in the course were challenged to create work that questions or expands the way we conceive of, articulate, and work with space in graphic design. Amongst the pieces on view were: a 3d homage to Josef Albers’ ‘Homage to a Square,’ browser icon bracelet charms, 3d software surface texture wrapping paper, and a lenticular window into the adjoining gallery.
The design of the exhibition took inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’ imagining of a map the same size as the territory it maps, and by the split nature of the gallery space. Physical work was presented in one of the two identical rooms, and a two-dimensional graphic and textual map of that work, constructed from vinyl and dry transfer typography, was presented in the other.
The ‘2d room’
Margaret Andersen (MFA 2016), ‘Minimal Construction’
Dasol Jung (MFA 2016), ‘2d Wannabe’ and ‘3d Wannabe’
Iris Chung (MFA 2016), ‘Erased Horizons’
Katie Barger (BFA 2016), ‘Gradient Zoetrope’
opening crowd
Participants:
Margaret Andersen (MFA 2016)
Katie Barger (BFA 2016)
Iris Chung (MFA 2016)
Cassandra Cisneros (MFA 2015)
Henrique Eira (MFA 2016)
Dasol Jung (MFA 2016)
Jessica Lee (MFA 2016)
Noha Khashoggi (MFA 2015)
