Interrogative Design - Krzysztof Wodiczko
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 06 Apr 2006 at 6:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
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This lecture will be held in conjunction with the 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student April 6-8, 2006, the highest national venue for academic discourse about design education. Titled Intersections: Design Education and Other Fields of Inquiry, this conference will be comprised of three keynote lectures, an exhibition, panel discussion, and more than ninety paper presentations. All papers have been triple blind peer-reviewed paper by an international panel of abstract reviewers. We anticipate that the event will attract more than one hundred fifty participants from all over the world. It will be an extraordinary opportunity for students to review the current work in various design fields and draw inspiration for their own studio projects.
Conference Schedule:
INTERSECTIONS: Design Education and Other Fields of Inquiry
22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, April 6-8, 2006
www.design.iastate.edu/NCBDS
April 6, 2006
6-8 p.m. Keynote address: Interrogative Design
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sun Room, Memorial Union
April 7, 2006
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Paper sessions, Memorial Union
Schedule is available at www.design.iastate.edu/NCBDS/schedule.htm
6-7:30 p.m. Keynote address: Drawing Forth
Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK
Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design
(Department of Architecture Lecture Series)
April 8, 2006
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Paper sessions, College of Design
Schedule is available at www.design.iastate.edu/NCBDS/schedule.htm
10-11:30 a.m. Panel discussion: Design Education and Its Discontents
Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design
Panelists:
Laura Briggs, Parsons School of Design /BriggsKnowles Architecture+Design
David Gersten, The Cooper Union
Peter Lynch, former chairperson, Cranbrook Academy Dept. of Architecture
Moderator:
Dan Hoffman, Arizona State University / Studio Ma, Phoenix
6-7:30 p.m. Keynote address: The Making of Design Principles
Kyna Leski, Rhode Island School of Design
Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design
Please note that all ISU students, staff and faculty who are not presenting papers can attend the conference free of charge. No registration is necessary. More information is available on the conference Web site: www.design.iastate.edu/NCBDS. Please direct all inquiries to co-organizers Igor Marjanovic and Clare Robinson at .
Wodiczko Bio:
Wodiczko holds an MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (with an emphasis on architecture, industrial design and the visual arts.
Born in Warsaw in 1943, Wodiczko emigrated twice, from Poland to Canada and then from Canada to the United States. He now shares his time between New York and Cambridge, Mass., where he is the director of ACT, the Center of Art, Culture and Technology (formerly known as the Center for Advanced Visual Studies) at MIT.
Since 1980, Wodiczko has created more than 70 projections of politically charged images on monuments and public buildings. Public projections include the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (1988); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989); Arco de la Victoria, Madrid (1991); City Hall Tower, Krakow (1996); Bunker Hill Monument, Boston (1998); A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima (1999); and El Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Tijuana (2001).
In 1996, Wodiczko began projecting video images involving sound and motion. The Hiroshima Projection, his third video projection, was organized after he was awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize in 1999 for his contribution as an artist to world peace.
Wodiczko is working on a public project to be completed next summer for the city of Barcelona with the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, which utilizes a new form of projection. With recordings from alienated groups of citizens of Barcelona, Wodiczko will be creating an interactive projection that will animate monuments for two-way conversations with a viewer. A similar projection is being planned in St. Louis, where Wodiczko will animate one of the city's most historic buildings, the Old Courthouse, for conversations with residents.
Throughout his career, Wodiczko has also developed a series of public intervention instrumentations, such as Homeless Vehicle (1988-89), Poliscar (1991), Alien Staff (1992), Porte-Parole (1994), AEgis (2000) and Dis-Armor (1999-present). Dis-Armor, a continuing cultural project first developed for the City of Hiroshima, was presented in the exhibition Tactical Media at MASS MoCA in spring 2004. Wodiczko's work has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions, including the Kwang-ju Biennale, Kwang-ju, South Korea; the Venice Architectural Biennial, Venice, Italy; and the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York.
Wodiczko and architect Julian Bonder currently are developing a major public monument that commemorates the abolition of slavery in Nantes, France.
Wodiczko's work can be found in the collections of the Fundació Tapies, Barcelona, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; the Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.