Butch Siriani GA Grad Makes Beat Music Big!

GA alum Butch Serianni and his beat making talents have helped to endorse and enhance a cutting edge instrument maker's website called Native Instruments.  Head to Native Instruments site, or click here  listen to Butch's work, OddKidOut (his stage name), on Machine Jam. 

 

Katrina Whiting: GA Alum Designer Returns to GA

Katrina, a Senior Experience Designer at Method in San Fran Shares the New Space of Work (which just happens to support all of our work in 21st Century skills) graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art two years ago. She visited art students to share what an experience deisgner does:

They are collaborators:

We work with you to frame the problem or opportunity space to ensure we are solving the right challenge. We are flexible and adaptive to fit your needs and context. We run projects with small, focused teams that integrate with clients and their customers throughout the design process, often co-creating with them in our studios in San Francisco, New York, and London.

They are insight driven:

We gather and synthesize customer and market insight to inform the design process. We use a combination of data-driven quantitative research and market and consumer trend analysis with ethnography and user testing to provide design insights that help guide decision making.

They work iteratively:

We believe that the best products and services are the ones that are shaped by the people who use them. We take time to understand the business challenge or opportunity, and then we work iteratively to test hypotheses and assumptions through prototypes and user research to continuously build and test the products and services we create.

The consider the big picture:

No product or service exists in a vacuum—neither do we consider design in isolation of the overall brand experience. We consider the varying touchpoints and experiences a customer might have with a brand and ensure that any new interaction both fits and builds upon the overall customer experience.

They deliver beautiful design:

No matter what the ask, our dedication to the highest quality of craft remains constant, in both our thinking and the final work. We are dedicated to the details of design, delivering both beautiful form and function.

And they design for and with technology.

GA Alum Adam Bell's Latest Book

Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts by ADAM BELL AND CHARLES H. TRAUB

“A remarkable compendium of important artists, practitioners, theorists, and essayists, who muse on what constitutes creativity in the lens and screen arts today. I think this book is destined to be essential reading for all those thinking about the future of our visual culture.” Mark Lubell, Executive Director, International Center of Photography “Brings together prophetic historic texts with the best of recent thinking to create an essential reader. This book provides a critical framework
that genuinely supports a creative life in photography.” Charlotte Cotton, author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities
and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. Vision Anew brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars
to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts. Presenting essays on photography and the moving image alongside engaging interviews with artists and filmmakers, Vision Anew offers an inspired assessment of the medium’s ongoing importance in the digital era.

Karen Martin GA Alum Designs Featured in Sucker Punch

Andrea YOAS & Karen MARTIN: The Museum of Useless Things investigates the thinking of design parts as estranged objects within the context of the building. University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign.  critic: Ferda KOLATAN.  For more info click here.

GA Alum Designs a 3D Printed Camera

Clay Kippen '07,  is about to finish a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Product design at The School of the Visual Arts in New York City, details the process of the prototyping phases of his thesis project on his  Tumbler site. You can follow the journey of the design of his Lucid Picto, a pinhole camera prototype made on a 3D printer.  His vision is to use the LUCID modeler as a platform to teach other subjects in schools that rely on illustrated images and 3D models.  To see the evolution of design, click here. 

Stefanie Li '10 Thesis Exhibition at Milk Gallery in NYC!

On Tuesday, May 20th, 6-9:30 pm Stefanie LI, GA class of 2010, will be celebrated along with fellow students at Parsons BFA Photography Exhibition, The Milk Gallery is located at: 450 W 15th sStreet, NYc, NY.   Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 20th, 6-9:30pm Exhibition: Tuesday, May 20th until Friday, May 30th.

Joseph Maida GA '95 Photographs Opening at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC

Joseph Maida

New Natives

September 12 - November 2, 2013

Opening Reception: September 12, 6-8pm

This is the first solo show by New York based artist, Joseph Maida, GA '95. The exhibition includes 14 large-scale color photographs and one single-channel video. Below notes excerpted from a press release on the exhibition.

The subjects of New Natives are aspiring male models of mixed ethnicity and race from Hawaii, whom Maida scouts through social media and photographs in their local landscape. Drawing from Hawaii’s royal history as well as its Eastern and Western influences, New Natives presents multifaceted visions of masculinity. In addition to a strong emphasis on native Hawaiians, the photographs portray men who are covered in tattoos of Polynesian, Japanese, and contemporary origins who identify as Cherokee, Chinese, English, Filipino, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kenyan, Kiwi, Laotian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Spanish, Thai, and Visayan. These unprecedented photographs expand the face of American manhood by depicting a cross-section of one of the United States’ most diverse and under-represented populations.

Joseph Maida received his B.A. from Columbia University and his M.F.A. from Yale University. He has exhibited in New York at the Queens Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, Artists Space and Art in General, among others, and internationally at institutions including the Reina Sofia National Museum, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, the Kunsthalle Wien, and the Nikon Salons (Tokyo and Osaka). His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. For the last decade, Maida has also been an influential teacher with appointments at Yale University, the School of Visual Arts, SUNY Purchase, and Parsons, the New School for Design.

Katrinna Whiting '09 Wins Prestigious Design Award

GA Alum Katrinna Whiting, finishing up her senior year at Maryland Institute College of Art, is already making bug waves in the national design community!  


On February 8-10, GOOD held a Hacking Energy Culture hackathon at Maryland Institute College of Art, aimed at generating new ways to interface with energy consumption, waste, and preservation.  The winning solution was from a team that included Katrinna along with Nicholas DePaul, Kevin Zweerink, and Kacie Mills. 

You can see Katrinna's winning App design called Recess here. You can even see her presentation for the competition here, by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking Download Documentation. 

Alum Joseph Maida Featured Online at TIME Lightbox

Celebrate Japan’s White Day with Joseph Maida by Lily Rothman

Joseph Maida, an American photographer who has been working on a Japan-based project since 2007, was in a department store in Kyoto when he first saw the little plastic miniatures of Western consumer goods. The toys sparked nostalgia but were clearly not the product of his own culture. “On the surface they seem completely Western,” he says, “but at their core they’re actually based on something Japanese.”

That collision formed the basis for his ongoing project, selections from which are featured in the gallery above. The series, Dream Factory, is his take on how Western culture is filtered through Japanese culture. The simplest example of the phenomenon, he says, is in the country’s food, where a dish can look like hamburgers or spaghetti but cater to the taste buds of a Japanese palate. Other instances, such as the scene of a woman playing a keyboard in what looks like a glass bubble (shown above), are subtler, as they require the viewer to think about a Japanese instrument based on a European instrument, played during a Japanese winter festival that uses Western ideas of what a “winter wonderland” should look like.

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/13/celebrate-japans-white-day-with-joseph-maida/#ixzz1p6JsPNpr