Close isn’t Home is a digital art platform created to dissect cross-culturalism, generational heritage, and identity. The website depicts transcendental environments, embodying digital intangibility in relation to physical space and nostalgia. Grace Kwon and Samantha Vassor emphasize upon the digital empathy by connecting diasporas in a responsive forum.
This performance showcase stages from having a limitation created by a collective experience to losing it. This piece is a metaphor for how boundaries can give things shape but also restrictions and how freedom is liberation but also brings uncertainty.
This piece invites you to join in a collaborative musical experience. These instruments (using analog circuitry and coded micro-controllers) are intuitive to play and remove the fear of failure. Through their ease of use, they remove barriers, dispelling the notion that one must be musically-inclined to create music.
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FAKEAT is an online fake food signage generator. It reflects the coexistence and conflict between Chinese culture and Western culture in American society. Participants in FAKEAT can choose one of the four Chinese characters “文化共存” (cultural coexistence) to combine with their favorite Western food to create interesting fake food signage.
Taylor G. Pestorius, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, ’19 Taylor is an interdisciplinary artist and intersectional feminist hailing from central New Jersey. Her…
Cynthia Zhu/ Sallie Xu, Graphic Design MFA 2018 Cynthia Zhu and Sallie Xu are multidisciplinary designers who prioritize creativity and…
GeneWeave investigates how to make genetic code both tangible and visual by translating DNA through fiber-based processes into a hand woven apron and CAD generated weave drafts. Viewers are also invited to preview their own weaving patterns based on genes of interest through the Grasshopper model.
You’re missing your family and haven’t seen them in a while. Phone calls replace physical presence with conversation, but is that enough to remedy homesickness? In Homesick Hotline, Huff and Guo interview people in their community about home and family, to understand the complex relationships between people, place, and memory.