Image/Object

  • Our daily lives entail a constant interaction with form and image. Urban spaces and shopping centers have often been focused on as environments where structure and sign overlap and weave into our consciousness. Yet from packages of chips to architectural ornament and signage, to entire buildings enveloped in an iPhone ad, image and object intertwine to constitute meaning design. In this seminar, we experimented with the integration of image and object in a series of exercises using both analog and digital methods. We constructed moduls using various materials and image surfaces. We also used photography throughout the semester to 'stage' objects within imaged environments. Through research in urban space and presentations on art and design, we expanded contextual knowledge. As the semester progressed, we focused on a concept of 'things', including reading excerpts form 'Das Ding' (1950) by Martin Heidegger and 'Les Choses' (1965) by George Perec. Students selected a 'thing' to research both haptically and through its representation.Our daily lives entail a constant interaction with form and image. Urban spaces and shopping centers have often been focused on as environments where structure and sign overlap and weave into our consciousness. Yet from packages of chips to architectural ornament and signage, to entire buildings enveloped in an iPhone ad, image and object intertwine to constitute meaning design. In this seminar, we experimented with the integration of image and object in a series of exercises using both analog and digital methods. We constructed moduls using various materials and image surfaces. We also used photography throughout the semester to 'stage' objects within imaged environments. Through research in urban space and presentations on art and design, we expanded contextual knowledge. As the semester progressed, we focused on a concept of 'things', including reading excerpts form 'Das Ding' (1950) by Martin Heidegger and 'Les Choses' (1965) by George Perec. Students selected a 'thing' to research both haptically and through its representation. This lead to the final project 'A Fair of Various Things', shown later in this booklet. Through in-class exercises, research and discussions, we developed a sensibility for the experience and imagination of space created by the interplay of image and object. We thereby examined the role that representation (in impage, form, text, language) can play in both constituting and communicating subjects.show moreshow less

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Author: Jo AchermannGND, Megan Sullivan
ISBN:978-3-9818148-0-4
Publisher:Eigenverlag
Place of publication:Cottbus
Editor: Jo AchermannGND
Document Type:Book
Language:English
Year of publication:2016
Number of pages:48
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 6 Architektur, Bauingenieurwesen und Stadtplanung / FG Bildende Kunst
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