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YS03

The designers practice is always in play with the reverberations(RIVEER_BERATIONS) of their personal life. These traditionally separate poles are not easily kept apart in lived experience. Not for any of us. They are rarely if ever the mutually exclusive zones that we are, or were, led to believe them to be. And they often, if not usually must be engaged on more or less the same terms at the same time and in the same situations. Like at work, for example.
Returning to graduate school, I find it is more difficult than ever to try to separate practice from the personal. This stems from my competing roles as a father, husband, son and designer. My path from home to studio and back again is characterized by multiple detours/disruptions/interruptions. From the mandatory National Service back in Singapore, to getting married, being a parent, my rekindled bmx obsession and the Masters program at Yale, the projected path of my life is an improbable pattern produced through selective interventions, divine or human made. Surprisingly, these diversions have brought me unforeseen benefit – serendipity of sorts.
In most cases, admittedly, decisions were made for me. Growing up in a city-state, with what the western democracies consider an authoritarian form of governance, intervention is familiar, common. Throw in my strict monotheistic religious upbringing, which sometimes seemed incompatible with modern living, and it can be said that the doctrine of interruption is ingrained in my every fiber.
I am interested in the moment of contact, the instance when something from the outside, a foreign entity interacts with a set of systematic structures. Just the way those unexpected disruptions interacted with my daily life, the results could be a violent expansion of energy or just a mere puff. What I’m after is how the merging of things that don’t make perfect sense together can translate into a design methodology. (MET_THOD_DOLO_GIE))
Juxtaposition What are the various forms of interruptive strategies? What if I upset a set of regulated system or break the visual tranquility of a form or setting, what might happen? I’ll appoint myself the advocator, an agent of disruption, like a nosy father stretching his parenting skills. What if I insert my own fictions into the reality like placing an object that is foreign into a non-homologous environment. Will this result in a story that the space might tell if it were given the chance?

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YS17

Would embodying the characteristics of a different agent restrict you to follow the same prescribed rule? Here, Dr. Sam Beckett, travels through time, randomly “leaping” into the bodies of other people, attempting to prevent history-altering catastrophes. When you intervene and disrupt a given arrangement, a structure or some form of ideology, do you adapt to the rules or personality or is it the other way around? Who controls whom, what controls what?

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YS12

The Ryugyong Hotel – Wallpaper Can the idea of representation changed through intervention? If a magazine like the Wallpaper, a product of the capitalist west, sold the Ryugyong(REE_YOU_GIONG) Hotel as a cool architectural destination. Would the meaning be construed by the audience?
In praise of chance Let’s reverse the role a bit, lets bestow the power of meaning upon the viewers. A game of participation and decision-making. A form of applied intervention using the inventions created by other people. A study of possible chaos, a “Lord of the Flies” experiment or much like giving unrestrained freedom to a 3 year old in a Toys R Us. These experiments seek to give viewers and readers independence in forming their opinion. To achieve these results, I plan to stage narratives by implementing new hierarchies through inventions, mechanical or artistic. These projects explore the use of deliberate interruption to increase the prospect of new forms of creation.

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YS10

I am fascinated by the 2D nature of the hotels form and its sharp symmetrical shape. A looming and hollow graphic symbol. The tale of North Korea’s monolithic landmark embodies interruption on many levels. The hotel is a jarring visual and geographical oddity that breaks the monotony of the landscape. This is an impossible reality mirroring the current political climate of the communist nation in a time of capitalism.

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DS13

with others that work with, alongside, around, and happen to have come before or after me; The advertisers here did not intend for their ads to be placed next to each other. Yet their serendipitous juxtaposition allows one to complete the image of the other. The two form a more complete image together than they do apart. It’s a nice illustration for a way to think about design’s role towards a quality for interconnectedness. It encourages one thing to complete another so that the work doesn’t have to, indeed can’t, be done entirely by one part alone.

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DS03

The second is the form of a circle template with a range of different sizes that the variety of objects can fit into.

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HJ15

American artist Elaine Sturtevant is famous for mimicking other Defying our notions of artistic originality, as well as seriously infringing copyright laws, she reproduces the work of several important male artists in her own form of provocative imitation. Her intention may be to critique myths of creativity, but she also tells us how the act of imitation and mimesis is fundamentally human.

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HJ12

In the process of imitation, the meanings or values of an image can be transformed; recontextualized through a form of mimicry. When the natives of Congo saw the painting of St. Sebastian, they interpreted it to be a nail fetish that would bring good luck.

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HJ21

There is no way to distinguish between them. But in this way they offer a convincing image of the world in which we live, where many of its most authentic-seeming parts are imitations based on other representations.

Mimesis has stimulated the development of human thought and behavior. The history of shapes, and the form of man-made and mass-produced objects, including typefaces and graphic symbols, are themselves the result of long term mimetic connections. It may not be possible to understand who we are, or why we make the things that we make as artists and designers, without understanding the mimetic process.

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HJ05

The movie The Playhouse, based its form and structure on patterns of mimicry and duplication.
Buster Keaton plays every role including a conductor, a musician, an audience member, a dancer and a stagehand. The movie achieves its symmetrical structure.
As a designer I am interested in all the visual forms of mimicry – symmetry, mirroring, multiplicity and duplication.

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HJ04

Acting is a form of mimicking in that actors do their best to be someone else.

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HJ01

Mimesis is a form of imitation, either by an individual or by an entire social group, in direct response to the behavior of others or to the environment in which we exist.

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IJ10

Space can present itself as form of stage and viewing can sometimes become a kind of theatrical experience. ‘In the Lights going on and off,’

Martin Creed looks at museums as a place to experience art with an installation that offers, unlike Flavin’s work, both a beginning and an end.

Photography is a language of light.

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IJ06

I attempted to record the general morale of the studio by developing a program in which individually colored light threads were assigned to each of my fellow colleagues. A message would arrive inside their inbox that they could either choose to answer or avoid. By clicking on one of the two reply links, users were given the ability to change the form of their thread. If someone chose not to participate his or her line remained level for neutrality. Together, the colored threads began to weave spontaneous, collaborative patterns that changed throughout the day.

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IJ03

Neon, or ‘liquid fire’ as it was once called, has also brought life to dark spaces, seducing the public with its mood-changing glow. The element has aided, and in many ways predated the unbridled excess of Las Vegas. Small towns and suburbs quickly became addicted to its nocturnal presence. Today the signs provide a form of captured nostalgia and an experience many find difficult to forget.

Illumination affects how we experience life but its shape can cast itself in a variety of forms. There is a literal model and the figurative or metaphorical structure. However, even an allegorical realm appears to exist.

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ND17

Also playing with the form of language is Dan Graham, who in Schema, creates a poem with an inventory of constituent parts. The description of the thing becomes the thing itself: a rigid, self-reflexive, quantitative system as poetry.

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ND16

Following in Crouwel’s footsteps in their use of the grid, Experimental Jetset repeat the title We Build New Sentences in a highly ordered form. However, they replace one word in each occurrence of the title, literally building new sentences, but not in a way that we’re used to encountering them.

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ND02

But is there room for disruption when the everyday subverts itself before designers have a chance? One morning in July over breakfast at Laguardia Airport, I noticed that hanging from the ceiling of the food court was not an array of actual advertisements, but fake ads, decorative wall hangings in the visual form of advertising, but without purpose or product.

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RB49

The form of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial is minimalist yet highly active, meant to evoke, in her words, a “wound that is closed and healing.”

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RB24

Each can be expressed in physical form:

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RB05

human form and

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JB11

The alarms in my 100 Days Project are all manufactured exactly the same, however resonate at slightly different frequencies. One individual alarm sounds different within the whole. Constructed in an abstract form, I would’ve liked to see a visual resemblance to the noise it made.

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