X&M

Cassandra Carosello

X&M explores different typefaces found in public signage, along with dimension and character construction by turning 2D letterforms into 3D models. The concept is to collect characters from two different typefaces and represent them in a 3D form according to their history. The use of wood is inspired by the Mesquite typeface’s creation as part of the Adobe Wood Type series, and the acrylic is inspired by the contemporary take of the unknown typeface. Metal fasteners are used for an industrial look.

Birch plywood, acrylic, metal
5 x 2.5 x 5 in. (X); 5 x 3.5 x 2.5 in. (M)

Waves

Tia Besser Paul

Sandra Alexandre-Aime

This table evolved from an exploration of water and the formation of waves. The interest lay in the repetitive motion of waves being formed, incorporated into the legs of the table. The desire was to utilize abandoned moving crates and give them a second life. To keep the integrity of the wood, the surface was left blemished, there are still marks such as nail holes and the warps in the wood are intact. This gives personality to the surface and hints at its previous life.

Reclaimed wood, steel
40 x 20 x 20 in.

Throw, Grow and Flourish

Sabrina Emanuele

Christina Gancz

Pam Menegakis

Cassandra Carosello

Alexandra Durand

Sophie Michiko Fukuda

The creation of seed bombs is a way of promoting methods of biodiversity conservation that allow others to be more actively involved in their community. Every part of the product is handmade and is either reusable or has an ongoing positive impact on the environment. The project fully embraces the concept of maintaining continuous life cycles of elements important to our city’s biodiversity.

clay, compost, organic muslin
5 in x 5.5 in

Sweet World

Lindy Li Loong

Milin Li

Sweet World is a low-poly 3D video that demonstrates the various desserts of different cultures. They are represented as three cubes on a plate. The top cube is Patbingsu, a Korean dessert. It is made of shaved ice, syrup, red beans, mochi, and fruits. The middle dessert is a mille-feuille, a European pastry made of layers of puff pastry and cream, topped with a glazed icing. The last dessert is American Jell-O filled with fruit punch. Furthermore, the video includes animated versions of Lindy and Milin who have fun in this crazy, sweet world.

Digital video, Blender

Saprophytic Architecture: cleaning up Detroit’s Central Station

Sarah Denis

The project brief was to design a nature-inspired environment that would revitalize one of Detroit’s many vacant spaces. This project works in and around Detroit’s abandoned Central Station, a very important building for the city’s history but neglected since 1988. This project proposes a solution that truly emblematizes Detroit Future City’s mission: it is a progressive taking-over of the complex with closed-loop urban farming and restaurant systems. What about a saprophytic architecture that would work to clean up the host structure by bringing people, money, and infrastructure to the site?

Wood, paper, plastic, metal, ink
36 x 36 x 36 in.

Neo OP

Luis Aretuo

As a daydreamer, Luis spends most of his days thinking of shapes and patterns that pop into his head and move around endlessly. This motion piece represents the styles, influences, and sounds that have shaped his student years, abstract yet relatable. All of it uses 3D software to create two-dimensional pieces that can easily move between both planes and engage the audience.

Cinema 4D and After Effects

Mineral Formations

Dina Bakalova

Anna Luisa Lopes

Carlos Chavez

Felipe Munoz

The concept and fabrication of this coffee table are an interdisciplinary cooperative work between the Design and Engineering departments. The inspiration comes mainly from bio-mimicry, though also some influence from the neatness of Scandinavian design. The table depicts natural formations such as rocks and crystal structures, highlighting the coldness of those sharp-edged shapes through the usage of steel, formed liked the facets of a gemstone. The aim is to entangle the visually appealing with the functional by balancing the bleakness of the steel with warmth and softness of the pinewood.

White pinewood, steel sheets, coating stain, anti-co
36 x 24 x 17 in.

Letterform Sculptures

Camila Acosta

This project aimed to explore the architecture of letters in the built environment. The constructed characters are the “A” from Ardene’s logo, and the “M” from Clément’s logo. The colour palette is inspired by the CMYK colour model. The materials used are a combination of Plexiglas, glass paint, and steel.

Plexiglas and metal
5 x 5 x 3 in.

Lampada

Samantha Dicriscio

Lampada is a lamp created solely from wood, hollow inside, strong on the outside. It was created to touch upon the concept of “eternally yours”, a companion through life, or an object that can be passed down. The manipulation of the lamp and lighting was created to give each user the freedom to change it whichever way they feel fits within their lifestyle. This creates a whole different effect and meaning to the overall look. With the lamp comes an interactive graphic piece accentuating different parts to enhance the user experience.

Wood, LED, paper
20 x 5 x 13 in. (lamp), 7 x 4 in. (book)

Slow Cookbook

Laurence Pilon

Jessica Maher

The intention of this project is to reconnect individuals with the provenance of the food we consume on a daily basis. The writing, the design, and the printing of Slow Cookbook address the notions of slow food, local food, while also highlighting many important sustainability practices. Furthermore, food waste can be countered by raising awareness within our communities, thus empowering individuals through knowledge of what they consume daily.

Screen-printing, paper
8.5 x 11 in.

Game therapy, Feng shui edition

Katerine Dennie-Marcoux

Alexis Dionne

If colouring mandalas can be a Zen and relaxing activity, so can furnishing a virtual room with colours and the five elements. Using a few important key elements of Feng Shui, the object of the game is to help the characters be happy by giving them a chance of a better life by arranging their living room space. Take this opportunity to relax.

Computer

Les plantes sauvages du Québec

Anne Moncion

́Emile Archambault

Marie-Pier Larose

Fanny Marcoux-Lebeau

Francis Leclerc-Charron

Every person, as a consumer, politician, and instigator of social change, can model their lifestyle towards having a net-positive impact on the environment and a personal wellbeing. Quebec has no fewer than 10,000 plant species native to various environments. Picking wild plants can become a gratifying activity for it supplies healthy, highly diverse, and free food. It is a splendid opportunity to discover things about our environment and to share the fruit of these adventures with our loved ones, creating new standards in our nutrition system. Until then, perhaps the weeds in our gardens, which we shamelessly pull out, can possess new potential.

Website

Average Joe

Maria Mahdessian

This project is a stop-motion animation that portrays the life routine of Average Joe, which consists waking up, eating, going to work, watching television, and sleeping, all without any excitement. Years pass by in a flash without a change and without Average Joe truly enjoying his life. At the end of the animation, there is darkness, which represents his final spiritual and physical death. This project’s intention is to show that life is a journey of adventures and experiences through which a person can feel truly alive. The skeleton symbolizes death and the use of grey scale represents a boring, plain, and uninteresting life.
Audio: “Living Fully Now” by Alan Watts.

Digital, skeleton dummy

Boxed Light

Emilie Kehm

Boxed Light is made to accompany those prone to change spaces, for it is a design effortlessly integrated in diverse environments. Its simple, minimalist design enables it to be easily compacted in order to avoid any damages when being transported. It incorporates the notion of practicality and sustainability, repurposing an existing object for a new design.

Wood, recycled glass bottle, LED
10 x 5 x 5 in.

Senescentis Felix (Happy Aging)

Tia Besser-Paul

Luis Aretuo

Marie-Andrée L’Italien

Johnson Ta

Alexey Lazarev

Senescentis Felix explores the stigma around aging and ways to create a positive discussion around it. It was developed through research of people’s perception and the different kinds of aging. This wearable is a step towards the embracement of wrinkles. It encourages its wearer to play with its pulley devices to create deep, dense wrinkles along their own neck. The more intense the wrinkles, the more interesting the piece becomes. This wearable acts as a platform for discussions between the wearer and the people that interact with them.

Organza silk, cotton, transparent thread
30 x 20 in.

Nef pour quatorze reines, Polytechnique Memorial Proposal

Julie Tremblay

John Shukin

Although the soil is never fully fertile, we must still plant seeds of hope for women around the world.
Nef pour quatorze reines is a proposal for a memorial commemorating the Polytechnique massacre. It is an attempt to help reflect on the tragedy, but also to provide a seed of hope and a way to move forward. Made using predominantly burnt cedar, the memorial comprises a seating area surrounding an inner sanctum filled with plants, offering an opportunity for meditation and renewal.

Burnt wood sticks, MDF, Plexiglas, FIMO paste, soil
15 x 11 x 6 in.

Speak

Laurence Pilon

Quebec has a complex history of linguistic conflicts still affecting the present multicultural society. “Speak White” refers to a racist expression used by English authorities in the late 60s to regulate French-Canadian workers. It is also the name of a poem, written by Michèle Lalonde after the Quiet Revolution, that critiques the ethnic and linguistic tensions. Quebecer Marco Micone, born in Italy, wrote “Speak What” years later in response to Lalonde’s work, suggesting that intolerances prevailing in the province are now directed against immigrants.

Ink, Paper, Poetry
2 x 24 x 36 in.

U & I

Jade Brisson

Edward Nyamenkum

Frédérique Pelletier

Gabrielle Vaillancourt

Tea interacts with three different senses: taste, smell, and touch. Tea is also a culture and experience, which is why the tea bags are bound in pairs. This encourages the receiver to share the moment of enjoyment of a warm cup of tea with a loved one. The tags are perforated so they can be split in two like a wishbone. They contain seeds meant to be planted, adding another level of depth to the ritual of tea, one that continues beyond a cup.

Fabric (cotton), tealeaves, wood
16 x 12 in.

Je suis malade…

Stéphanie Bélanger

It is a book about the different phases of acceptance of a person suffering from a critical illness. The illustrations and the writing style are somewhere between childhood and the point of view of an adult. In some way, this book is about the child that hides in the depth of our being and who is scared. They show us the negative counterparts and the difficulties met by the adult who does not know where to hide their sorrow. Illnesses are present like those monsters that haunt us in our childhood, which we did not see but that were true in our eyes.

Recycled paper, string
4.5 x 4.5 in.

Helvetica No More

Alyssa Zwonok

This poster is designed for a lecture held at Concordia University by type designer Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer. The large modular typeface and small cursive font were designed in Illustrator, inspired by handwriting and sketches. Ideas of space, movement, and the construction of typographic forms were explored in a neutral colour palette with a pop of turquoise to emphasize important information. The focuses of this project were expressive type, concept development, poster composition, and information hierarchy.

Poster
24 x 36 in.

YMCA’s cooking class

Kira-Alexandra Gwilliam

The project consists of finding an internship in a non-profit organization and participating in one of its programs. Kira chose the passport program for education at the YMCA. Her role consists of teaching young people between 13 and 17 years old how to cook once a week every week. She teaches them basic techniques, simple and healthy recipes, as well as the artistic presentation of dishes. Kira thinks it is an important project because cooking is a basic skill that is slowly being lost. It is a crucial skill for young people to have in order to have a better diet.

Postcards
4 (8) postcards, 6 x 4 in.

Subbacultcha

Francis Leclerc-Charron

Subbacultcha had its initial life as a poster in a contest for the alternative rock band The Pixies. As part of a course, it was transformed into a series of postcards reflecting a designer’s ethos statement.

Poster, postcards
4 postcards, 24 x 36 in. (poster), 6 x 4 in. (postcard)

Orange Julep

Fanny Marcoux-Lebeau

Julie Tremblay

Murielle Dufort

This project is a rebranding of Montreal’s famous Orange Julep in order to revive it and attract a larger clientele. The juxtaposition of pastel colours with a touch of humour creates a playful identity engaging Montrealers to rediscover the place and build new memories, while enjoying an orange frappe. The branding itself is catchy in order to grasp the attention of both newcomers and regulars.

Illustrator, Photoshop, screen-printing, paper
3 posters, 13 x 19 in., 11 x 17 in. (t-shirt)

Brandon Grotesque Folded

Edward Nyamenkum

Based on Brandon Grotesque Black, Brandon Grotesque Folded takes inspiration from folding paper to create a layering typeface. By overlapping the different type styles and by playing with different combinations of colour, fills, and strokes, paper-folding effects can be visually mimicked in a 2D environment. This typeface was developed by experimenting with folding paper letters, recreating the process through a 3D rendering software, and importing the resulting vector shapes into Illustrator and Glyphs.

Paper
9 x 12 in. (book), 24 x 36 (poster)

I Love Myself

Sam van der Walde

I Love Myself is a compilation of blog entries written throughout the semester about the lessons Sam learned as a graphic designer and how they link to her life as a twenty-something-year-old. The entries are used to showcase the typeface Eva, a modern and geometric sans serif. Eva has two weights, regular and display, for legibility and versatility.

Paper
7 x 9 in.

Neige Typeface

Marie-Pier Larose

Neige is a handmade typeface that was inspired by the observation of snow falling in the surrounding environment. With soft colours and thick traits, Neige’s booklet emulates the forms created by ice crystals coming in contact with flora and by the burial of the landscape under the snow. The characters have irregular outlines with a consistent large stroke. The letters’ rounded lines often finish with curved tips, for better interlocking typography.

Paper, ink
6 x 6 in.

Galaxix

Cassandra Carosello

Inspired by constellations, Galaxix is a sans-serif typeface constructed with linear and circular forms. Because of its unique details, this typeface is best suited for large headings or display type. The concept of the project was to find inspiration in physical or digital objects/elements and develop a typeface based on it. Based on geometric angles and the list of star signs, Galaxix was developed with a futuristic/science-fiction style. A specimen booklet illustrates the typeface’s complete development.

Sketch paper, matte cardstock, inkjet
6.25 x 5 in. (closed), 6.25 x 18 in. (open)

Alain Ducasse Stationery

Christina Gancz

Sarah Denis

Alain Ducasse Stationery is a speculative rebranding of a five-star Parisian restaurant, Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athenée. The restaurant is very high-class and prides itself on the transparency of its cooking methods: every meal showcases all its individual components. The restaurant is also proud of knowing the origin of all its foodstuffs and developing a stable network of trusted food providers.

Stationery
Paper
24 x 12 in.

Le Sol Est…

Alyssa Zwonok

This series of posters was designed for an SDGQ contest to raise awareness of the importance of healthy soil. It uses earth-grown vegetables to illustrate possible negative consequences. To avoid overgrazing, land must be cultivated using a crop rotation system. Water infiltration systems are encouraged to help in the event of heavy rainfall and run-off. Populated crops and humus-rich soils are essential in protecting vegetation from harsh winds.

Paper
24 x 34 in.

Alain Ducasse Stationery

Alyssa Zwonok

Samantha Dicriscio

The Plaza Athenée is a luxurious five-star hotel in Paris, with a five-star restaurant named after the head chef Alain Ducasse. The stationery represents this restaurant. The specific, luxurious ingredients Alain Ducasse uses in his dishes are brought to life within the design. The stamping of the pears, peppers, and caviar is a compelling addition to the stationery; it adds an upper-class feel to the overall look. The stationery is also printed on a paper with a slight frosted shine to push the luxurious feel.

Stationery paper
10 x 25 in.

Suburbia

Bianca Su

Suburbia is a piece that triggers conversation about the contrast between two common images of the suburbs: one of monotonous residential scenery and the other of a family life. The framed typography sits in a box that may suggest an unchanging and isolated depiction of the suburbs. By way of translating this duality of isolation and new life into visual type in space, the “ouvert” sign displays a decaying typography, yet shows liveliness. This open lit sign welcomes its viewer while conveying a feeling of neglect.

Masonite, acrylic, paint, LED
7 x 16.5 x 4 in

Cityscape to Sacred Space: A Visceral Sculpture Map

Hannah Materne

Mel Palapuz

This sculpture map is the physical manifestation of the visceral and emotional experiences while crossing from the chaotic cityscape of Boulevard René-Lévesque into the sacred space of the cathedral Mary Queen of the World. The bead, representing the human, is pulled along a wire path as it travels from the chaos of the street, through the imposing vertical threshold of the modern city, and finally, into the warm hearth of the illuminated sacred space. The journey, repeated in the opposite direction, draws out a shred of fabric from the sacred space, showing that the experiences of each space colour one another.

Wire, aluminum, clay, foam core, fabric, LED
10 x 4 x 8 in.

We Don’t Think in Binaries

Jeremy Segal

This installation explores the increasingly blurry dichotomy that exists between our natural, biological selves and the mesh of computational technology in which we are embedded. Using glitch art methods, the video’s code is directly manipulated in text form, producing visual noise. The sound is a direct sonic reading of the video’s code. This project aims to extend the definition of typography in digital media, shifting it towards the code itself.

Acrylic cube, iPhone 6S+, mannequin hand, grass rug, soil, lights
8 x 8 x 8 in.

STREET ART: MTL

Mel Palapuz

STREET ART: MTL is part photo-documentation and part city mapping. It poses many questions: How do different styles of street art in Montreal exist based on their respective neighbourhoods, if they exist at all? What is street art really saying to us?

Book
Glossy cardstock, paper
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 in.

Before Effects

Francis Goodship

Tam Vu

Since AfterEffects is typically used as a post-production tool, it is interesting to use it for the opposite, creating all the video animations as preproduction. A box was constructed to allow the juxtaposition of the animations in real time, which in effect leaves room for error. This sort of imperfection is an attempt to broaden the common spectrum of video animation.

Glass, iPad, screen
12 x 17 x 6 in

The Race Booklet

Alyssa Zwonok

Samantha Dicriscio

Tess Kuramoto

The Race Booklet was designed for a short experimental play written by Concordia professor Dr. Louis Patrick Leroux. The text is complimented by original illustrations and photographs. The booklet itself focuses on the layout, the text-image relationship, and the content structure. It is printed in black only with an accented bright yellow on the cover. The typesetting emphasizes both legibility and the meaning of the text, supporting the desired atmosphere.

Book
Paper, ink, thread
6 x 7.5 in.

I Digitalove

Johnson Ta

Abejane Lou Alvarez

This is a speculative project that critiques our society’s carefree approach to sharing personal information on the Internet. Set in 2056, it is a world where the death of a person is missed more virtually than physically. In order to comfort a family member, a lover, or a friend, an online company called “I Digitalove” creates an Artificial Intelligence based on that individual’s social media and online footprint. The AI becomes the perfect individual; it has the same memories and psychological and behavioural patterns. Hence, it becomes possible to continue communicating online with loved ones that have died.

Paper
8.3 x 11.7 in.

Mrs Eaves

Camila Acosta

This book was a collaborative project where every student was responsible for designing a signature for his or her assigned typeface. This signature presents Mrs Eaves, a typeface created by Zuzanna Licko in 1996. The delicate and feminine approach to the design reflects the nature of the typeface itself, as well as the woman that inspired its creation. Each student designed individual dust jackets and endpapers; the book was bound using a sewn binding technique.

Signature
Paper
5 x 7 in.

Perception + Colour

Edward Nyamenkum

Perception + Colour is a two-part book on theories of perception and colour. This accordion saddle stitch book takes references from well-known design books to explain their theory in a fun and whimsical manner. By using photographs of fruits to illustrate each example, Perception + Colour manages to convey important information with an interesting and playful twist.

Book
Paper
2 books, 5 x 9 in.

The Cocoon, or the Phone Removal Treatment

Alexandra Durand

Nomophobia is the anxiety felt when separated from our mobile device. Set in a speculative future, this project The Cocoon is meant to be a treatment for this condition. By knitting a physical cocoon for your mobile device, not only are you cutting yourself from it, but also enjoy the meditative craft of the process. Since it is not permanent and can be undone at any time, the project brings forth the idea of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: in a system in which no external forces act, disorder will increase.

Yarn, knitting needles, cardboard, paper
8 x 8 x 3 in.

Dee & Ampersand

Alexandra Durand

This project sought to experiment with items that are typically 2D, in this case letters and other glyphs, by bringing them into a 3D context. These two characters are meant to be an exploration of materiality and texture. The letter “D” is knitted and stuffed; appearing soft and squeezable, while the ampersand, embroidered using French knots, creates texture and plays with tactility. Both letters are made with what are considered artisanal crafts, pushing against the idea of mass-production. These two sculptural pieces are unique; even if they were to be redone, they would not be the same.

Wool, synthetic stuffing, canvas, embroidery thread, foam
5 x 5 x 5 in. and 5 x 5 x 1.5 in.

Oyster Board

Annabelle Daoust

This functional object is the result of a reflection about craft and design, functional and aesthetic, as well as the boundaries of distinct practices and the way they intermingle. The curves of the board are an inspiration of the oyster itself. Designed to be set on a standard dinner table, the oyster-shucker works in a standing position, at working station height. The board serves as an oyster tray and a condiment rack. The Oyster Board is designed for kitchen parties where guests and their host gather around the board for an enjoyable evening.

2015
Birch, aluminum
14 x 10 x 9 in.

Fluid Surface Controller

Etienne Surprenant Legault

This project seeks to take the interaction between the controller and the player to the next level. The new surface created for the game controller deforms and changes shape directly under the players’ fingers. It sends an organic feedback via force push as opposed to the mechanical feedback from the vibrations. This project engages touch in a new way and that needs to be felt.

2016
Game controller, electromagnets, arduino board, ferrofluid
6 x 5 x 2.5 ft.

Tangible Physics Engine

Nima Navab

This application enables the user to bridge the line between the physical and the virtual world by tracking real-life objects and assigning items to them in the application. By doing so, the chosen objects become registered as object-oriented within the code. This allows for all sorts of phenomena, events, and special effects to occur in the built environment, in real-time. Furthermore, if additional real-life objects are placed into the frame, new interactions/relations can occur between them, demonstrating the code’s ability to control action flow while encouraging participation.

2016
Wood, found objects, metal, Plexiglas
48 x 72 in.

Privilege

Sandra Alexandre-Aime

Danielle Thompson

Alexandra Durand

Sophie Fukuda

Privilege is meant to highlight our place in society and make us more aware of the things we take for granted. It is meant to show the user their situation of privilege. This item was made in the context of 5 Days for the Homeless, a countrywide fundraising event for local not-profit organizations participating in fighting homelessness.

2015
Organic canvas, recycled leather and recycled winter coats
20 x 12 in.

Handmade puppets with pillows

Sabrina Emanuele

Kira-Alexandra Gwilliam

Sunny Liu

Cassandra Carosello

Dina Bakalova

Emily Hines

Kimberly lam

Felipe Munoz

Sarah Maier

The puppets were created as a project for community engagement involving the Montreal Children’s Hospital. A play pack consists puppets, pillows, and colouring books created for patients. The goal is to give them an opportunity to channel their creativity through play and to have something they can turn to as a distraction. Together, the different elements act as items that children and their parents can use during more difficult times.

2015
Organic muslin, felt
7 x 9 in.

Hamac Urbain

Stephanie Belanger

Charlotte Krzentowski

Catherine Martial

Hamac Urbain begun as a project seeking to raise funds for the event 5 Days for the Homeless in January 2015. Today, it has morphed into a young company that advocates values of responsible, local, and social consumption. Hamac Urbain also gives a second life to many materials that can no longer be used for their first intended purpose (rock climbing ropes and harnesses). For every sold hammock, $2 is given to Dans la Rue.

2015
100 % cotton, recycled climbing ropes and cherry wood
Folded city bag: 103 x 63 in. (open) 13 x 15 in. (closed)
Interior chair: 40 x 47 x 24 in.

Doubt

Sasathorn Bhirom

Zachary Hershman

The purpose of Doubt is to explore possible mindsets a person goes through when experiencing doubt. The installation features a narrative whose outcome will depend on the user’s decisions. The user is presented with three storyline tangents to choose from. Each tangent is beneficial for one of the three characters of the story. All try to dissuade the user from siding with either of the other two, even chiming in and asking the user to reconsider their decision, causing the user to doubt.

2016
Wooden stands
5 x 5 ft.

Falling Utopia

Milin Li

Charles Hanna

Julian Glass-Pilon

Joseph Gabereau

Falling Utopia is a one-player mobile game. The concept is to save people leaping to their deaths from a floating city. The user, as the main character, needs to maneuver a cannon and shoot parachutes towards those falling. As soon as the parachute hits them, it is activated and they slowly fall to safety. There are three levels in this game. As each level is passed, the fire in the city grows fiercer, signifying the next level, and the difficulty increases. At each new level, people with more complex falling mechanisms are introduced to keep the player on their toes and give variety to the game-play.

http://cargocollective.com/milin/Falling-Utopia

2015
Digital Game
6.23 x 3.07 x 0.29 in.

Canis Minor

Milin Li

Hope Erin Phillips

Amanda Tom

Canis Minor is an experimental game that explores loneliness, death, and communication over time. As the player drifts through space without any control, their only hope is to intercept messages or to send out their own. However, the player soon realizes that they are playing a dog sent into space as an experimental subject with no chance of returning home. Death is unavoidable.

2015
Digital Game

VS

Philippe Caron

Are you left or right? Liberal or conservative? Such questions continuously fuel debates in our democratic society. It defines and segregates us. We never seem to agree on one universal idea. As long as we have a leader, we seem to move along quite nicely. However, all leaders are ephemeral, which occasionally brings us along conflicting axes. This web piece is a wicked and cynical approach to provoke a debate between the two parties. Using a JavaScript library called Enchant, the game has historically conflicting figures fight for their opinions forever, relentlessly, and purposelessly.

2015
Website

Peekaboo

Eliza Nguyen

Peekaboo is an intervention in the public/private spheres of the web, over which users may or may not have control. It is inspired by Michel Foucault’s theory on the power of the observer via the Panopticon. This website brings forth those ideas and gives the user an experience with a camera that invades their personal space. The Internet is open source and straddles the notions of public and private. Once the user has entered the site, they can choose to use the camera as a tool to either engage or disengage with the rest of the world. If they decide to take a photo, the image will forever be published on the Internet for anyone to see.

2014

Website

20 in x 12.5 in

 

Pájaro/Queer

Armando Lopez-Bircann

Drawing from the artist’s own experience and research, the Pájaro 2000 project questions what is the influence of globalized media on the identities and expression of queer, millennial Dominicans, given their own culture’s rejection. Through the use of original music and visuals, he aims to reframe the word Pájaro, which means bird, but is also used as a derogatory identification for gay men.

2016

Video

Visual Wall

Hanieh Kavehei

How can we produce a healing environment in the psychiatry ward?

Accurate and flexible relationships between many elements such as space, technology, patients, and practices in a hospital can create a healing environment. In the psychiatry ward, occupational therapy is an effective part of generating the healing environment. Occupational therapists encourage psychiatric patients to create art using different tools. Painting is one of the patients’ favorite practices, since it helps to express themselves and reduce their anxiety. “Visual wall” is an innovative method of painting through technology. In this prototype, patients are able to paint on the canvas with their hand motion.

2016

Leap motion, canvas, string, projector

72 x 60 in.

Cuerpos

Agustina Isidori

Cuerpos is a symbolic fusion between nature and women; it proposes a new language to reflect on the naturalized violence against women and the aftereffects of trauma.

The atmosphere is filled with haunting motionlessness, an intangible melancholy adorned by the beauty and painful fragility, yet strength, of the image. The deep sadness and disquieting peace is accompanied by a communal living between beauty and sorrow, quietude and violence, poetry and pain.

Trauma is the cornerstone of this project. What happens on the surface of the earth is closely connected to what happens underground. Trauma is a wound on the body and on memory, a profound rupture in everyday life, which attacks the self from the outside, impacting its surface and tearing the skin. Trauma is an inherited wound. Trauma builds subterranean psychological states; it makes solid footing uncertain and occasionally causes earth above to collapse.

Cuerpos is a call to understand the origin and maintenance of a naturalized scar on women’s bodies. Feminicide is the ultimate link of a long chain of hate, disdain, and violence reinforced by a patriarchal society. Cuerpos explores the body as a tool and battleground to denounce violence.

These are portraits that do not shout out of fear, but out of anger.

2016

HD Double Screen Video Installation