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Eleventh Annual MFA Design Thesis Exhibition & Forum
Thesis Forum
Participants Include Design
Leaders
Paola Antonelli, John Carlin, Allan Chochinov and Scott Stowell
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
11am - 7pm, reception to follow
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street
Thesis Exhibition
April 30 - May 15, 2010
Reception: Tuesday, May 4, 6-8pm
School of Visual Arts presents "Unleashed,” an exhibition of products, campaigns and services developed by 21 students graduating from the MFA Design program at SVA. Both commercially viable and culturally significant, these products have been realized through graphic, web, industrial and motion design. The exhibition is curated by Ada Whitney, a faculty member at SVA and co-founder and creative director of Beehive.
For the second time in the program’s 12-year history, the graduating class will also present their work at a daylong thesis forum held at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, on April 20 from 11am to 7pm. A keynote lecture by Paola Antonelli, senior curator, department of architecture and design, MoMA, will start the morning session and John Carlin, founder of Funny Garbage, will offer the endnote. Design leaders Allan Chochinov, editor-in-chief, Core77.com, and Scott Stowell, proprietor of OPEN, will moderate the event. Other participants include MFA Design co-chairs Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. The thesis forum is open to the public and provides an opportunity to learn more about each project directly from its creator. To encourage further dialogue, a closing reception will follow the event.
CREATING NEW EXPERIENCES
With Po?tiq, Dohun Park combines poetry with everyday objects, encouraging individuals to find inspiration in the mundane. Helga Schmid offers a campaign to promote handwriting as a means of expanding our perceptions with Table and Chair, Pen and Paper, Text and Time. Addressing social concerns, Ashley Stevens’ The Ah Project provides an online outlet for families and friends of loved ones with mental illness. Meital Gueta’s interactive exhibit Touching Yellow allows sighted individuals to experience the world through the eyes of the visually impaired. In the interactive realm, Giho Lee's MOSA is a virtual museum of sound and art that offers inspiration through the integration of these two art forms, while Ekta Daryanani’s Tedi Galli is a smart phone application that connects commuters in Mumbai and enables them to share traffic information instantly.
CHANGING PERCEPTION
Matthew Heckart’s Two Wings campaign draws attention to the plight of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered asylum seekers. Marlyn Dantes’ Sentimentalyst is a web application that evaluates bias in news coverage. Grace Marie Amico's Get Busy addresses the problems associated with unhygienic disposal of dog waste. C?line Bouchez advocates for living efficiently in American culture with her Stand Small movement. Carli Pierce’s Spoonful is a magazine that inspires New Yorkers to think locally and seasonally about their food. Through Illuminated Atheist, Matthew Luckhurst proposes a new way to approach Atheism. Matthew Stipano’s Speak of Love is a performance piece that sheds light on same-sex relationships and equality.
PRODUCTS THAT INFORM AND DELIGHT
Tonya Douraghy’s series of books, Time/Place, each use a personal narrative to present the political history of modern border conflicts. In Spaghetti with Milk, Ifaat Qureshi uses a collection of stories and visual art to explore how memories of food shape our personal and cultural identities. Irina Lee’s First Person American is a website that explores modern immigrant identity through personal stories, visual documentation, and interactive media. On the topic of visual communication, Mariana Uchoa’s I’m a Designer and I Can’t Draw is a book for designers about visualizing ideas, while Seungjoo Lee’s X-Height is a website for Korean students who want to continue their design studies oversees. Jackie Lay’s animation series, Ism, introduces philosophical ideas in 30-second motion graphics. Bronson Stamp offers One Word Dictionary as a model for the exploration of a word’s definition and it’s actual use. Through game-play with virtual animals, James Yang’s iPhone application Lazy Green teaches aspiring environmentalists effective ways of saving energy..
The MFA Design Department at SVA, also known as the Designer as Author program, prepares students to excel as authors of original concepts across a broad range of media. Drawing on fluency with the language of visual communication in both the fine arts and the applied arts, the program focuses on independent creation of culturally and environmentally responsible objects of value that integrate the best design.
Media Contact: For more information, please contact John Wyszniewski at 212.592.2209 or jwyszniewski@sva.edu.
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New York,
NY 10001
212.592.2145
The Visual Arts Gallery is SVA's premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, it comprises four state of the art galleries and a large terrace with a commanding view of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. Staffed by six full-time professionals, Visual Arts Gallery offers select students the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the same environment as some of the country's leading artists--a number of whom have exhibited there as well.
Since the Visual Arts Gallery moved from 137 Wooster Street in Soho to its present location in 2004, it has exhibited works by renowned SVA alumni such as Renee Cox, Inka Essenhigh, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Lazzarini, Sol Lewitt, Vera Lutter, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson and Sara Sze, Works by Richard Avedon, Milton Glaser, Anish Kapoor, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastiao Salgado have also been exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery.
SVA students of every discipline derive great educational benefit from being able to study the work of celebrated artists, hear them speak at lectures, or even get the chance to meet them in person -- all right here at the College.
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