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New Views 2015: Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
- 2015
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The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) presents New Views: FIT Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, which opened Saturday, March 7, and features more than 90 works—from intimate to large-scale installations—including masks, photography, collage, painting, sculpture, illustration, video, interactive media, installation, textiles, apparel, and jewelry.
Miss Communication
- 2014
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"Communication is supposed to be easy," Pansum Cheng, sculpture technologist, Fine Arts, said while watching people connect with his new site-specific sculptural installation, Miss Communication, outside of the Pomerantz Center. "It's the most direct way to interact with someone."
But this assemblage of 2,400 empty cans attached to two walls with a grid system and connected with fishing wire—at once simple and enigmatic—gives the viewer no instructions on how to use it. "That never even occurred to me," Cheng said. "Because communication is a very personal experience, allowing people to figure out what to do with it is in and of itself a form of communication."
Each can is attached to the one directly across from it on the opposite wall by the fishing wire, creating a familiar communication mechanism: a telephone device like the ones children make. "Before technology, communication is play," Cheng said. "It's childlike innocence.
Cheng also enjoys watching the juxtaposition of people using mobile phones near his installation, dealing with the distractions of city life, while others are trying to figure out the intricacies of the sculpture. "I see people play with it but also get frustrated with it."
But there is another way to look at Miss Communication, which came out of a proposal Cheng, who is from Mainland China, submitted to the FIT Diversity Council. It can be viewed as a means to examine the experience of being an outsider in an ever-changing subculture, which can be arduous when trying to identify both with peers and strangers. Through the various experiences that people have with the installation, the aim is to challenge them to explore different mindsets of a multicultural society.
"It was born out of the experience of people not being able to align with each other in a common experience," said Cheng. "Age, sex, background, and every experience can change the way you look at things. The project is a very simple idea, but every idea that's simple is never really that simple when you elaborate on it. I was looking for something everyone could relate to. I read a lot of philosophy, but I don't have big ideas for my art. I only have personal ideas that people can connect with."
The Diversity Council chose the project, in part, because it speaks to the issues of difference in culture and because it serves as a platform for communication.
The installation, which took nearly five months to install, will be on view through February.
--from Press Release on December 18, 2014
But this assemblage of 2,400 empty cans attached to two walls with a grid system and connected with fishing wire—at once simple and enigmatic—gives the viewer no instructions on how to use it. "That never even occurred to me," Cheng said. "Because communication is a very personal experience, allowing people to figure out what to do with it is in and of itself a form of communication."
Each can is attached to the one directly across from it on the opposite wall by the fishing wire, creating a familiar communication mechanism: a telephone device like the ones children make. "Before technology, communication is play," Cheng said. "It's childlike innocence.
Cheng also enjoys watching the juxtaposition of people using mobile phones near his installation, dealing with the distractions of city life, while others are trying to figure out the intricacies of the sculpture. "I see people play with it but also get frustrated with it."
But there is another way to look at Miss Communication, which came out of a proposal Cheng, who is from Mainland China, submitted to the FIT Diversity Council. It can be viewed as a means to examine the experience of being an outsider in an ever-changing subculture, which can be arduous when trying to identify both with peers and strangers. Through the various experiences that people have with the installation, the aim is to challenge them to explore different mindsets of a multicultural society.
"It was born out of the experience of people not being able to align with each other in a common experience," said Cheng. "Age, sex, background, and every experience can change the way you look at things. The project is a very simple idea, but every idea that's simple is never really that simple when you elaborate on it. I was looking for something everyone could relate to. I read a lot of philosophy, but I don't have big ideas for my art. I only have personal ideas that people can connect with."
The Diversity Council chose the project, in part, because it speaks to the issues of difference in culture and because it serves as a platform for communication.
The installation, which took nearly five months to install, will be on view through February.
--from Press Release on December 18, 2014
New Views 2014: Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
- 2014
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The first of the School of Art and Design Faculty annual exhibition
The New Age of Digital: Digital Transformation of the Chinese Luxury Market
Dong Yang
- 2024-07-12
- Fashion Business Management
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- Conference proceedings
My study investigates how luxury brand employed innovative technologies to transform their go-to-market strategy targeting Chinese luxury consumers –and the extent to which these new technologies can support luxury brands in further strengthening their brand values.
Fashion Psychology Defined
Dawnn Karen
- 2024-05-25
- Social Sciences
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- Presentations (communicative events)
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Conference proceedings
Fashion Psychology Defined integrate internal and external factors: Use color to boost confidence and self-expression. Choose clothing to adjust and balance emotions. Dawnn Karen advances this holistic approach, preparing students to enhance lives through thoughtful fashion choices.
FIT Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2022-2023: Sanctuary
- 2023
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- Exhibition installation photographs
Exhibition title and theme:
"Sanctuary", Dawn Dinh, ITDP
"Sanctuary", Dawn Dinh, ITDP
Crafting Change Exhibition 2022
- 2022
- Textile/Surface Design
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- Exhibitions (events)
- Exhibition installation photographs
The work of FIT alumni and faculty takes center stage in the exhibition Crafting Change. Organized by the Textile/Surface Design Department in conjunction with New York Textile Month, the works featured in Crafting Change use long-established techniques in a modern context to highlight the potential for promoting connection, community, and wellbeing through creating textiles. These works explore the potential for art to promote connection with ourselves and others and how the tactility of textiles can provide balance to time spent in the digital realm.
Pattern, the Grid, and Other Systems
- 2023
- Fine Arts
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- Exhibitions (events)
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Curated by FIT Associate Professor of Fine Arts Julia Jacquette, this exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology features work that utilizes and explores all aspects of repetition and pattern.
Pattern is often thought of in terms of art and design: the repetition of shape in surface design. But the definition of pattern can be even more expansive: It’s a regularity or repetition in the world in general. It includes the repetition of abstract ideas as well as form.
Pattern, the Grid, and Other Systems will include two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based artwork from FIT faculty, students, and distinguished alumni, as well as from guest artists. In addition, panel discussions and talks by participating artists and guest lecturers will take place during the run of the exhibition.
Pattern is often thought of in terms of art and design: the repetition of shape in surface design. But the definition of pattern can be even more expansive: It’s a regularity or repetition in the world in general. It includes the repetition of abstract ideas as well as form.
Pattern, the Grid, and Other Systems will include two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based artwork from FIT faculty, students, and distinguished alumni, as well as from guest artists. In addition, panel discussions and talks by participating artists and guest lecturers will take place during the run of the exhibition.
Crafting Change 2018: New Textile Work by Students and Faculty
- 2018
- Textile/Surface Design
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- Exhibitions (events)
- Exhibition installation photographs
The work of FIT students and faculty took center stage in the Gallery FIT exhibition Crafting Change. Organized by the Textile/Surface Design Department in conjunction with New York Textile Month, the works featured in Crafting Change used long-established techniques in a modern context to explore the shifting boundaries between art, design, and technology. Combining hand-crafting techniques with digital processes preserves tradition while pushing textiles into the future. Projects bridging science and textiles have the potential to revolutionize the fashion and textile industries, leading us to a more sustainable world. These works were promising examples of how FIT is successfully encouraging interdisciplinary mergers of craft, technology, and sustainability in order to usher textile arts into the 21st century.
Crafting Change 2017: New Textile Work by Students and Faculty
- 2017
- Textile/Surface Design
- Image
- Exhibitions (events)
- Exhibition installation photographs
The work of FIT students and faculty took center stage in the Gallery FIT exhibition Crafting Change. Organized by the textile/surface design department in conjunction with New York Textile Month, the works featured in Crafting Change used long-established techniques in a modern context to explore the shifting boundaries between art, design, and technology. Projects bridging science and textiles have the potential to revolutionize the fashion and textile industries, leading us to a more sustainable future. These works were promising examples of how FIT is successfully encouraging interdisciplinary mergers between craft, technology, and sustainability to usher textile arts into the 21st century.
Vanishing Cultures, Vanishing Communities: The Nomads and the Weavers of Taurus Mountains, Turkey
- 2020
- Gladys Marcus Library
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- Exhibitions (events)
- Exhibition installation photographs
An exhibition as a part of an ongoing visual ethnographic research on the impact of migration and globalization on the nomadic communities, documenting the daily lives of nomadic people and weavers and putting a face to this (in)visible community and their vanishing culture.
Design Inclusive Spaces with Accessibility and Universal Design
Carli Spina
- 2022
- Gladys Marcus Library
- Text
- Articles
As spaces that are used by a wide range of people, it is important that libraries be built with the needs of a diverse set of users in mind. Without this focus on usability for individuals with varied needs, libraries become spaces that exclude both potential patrons and employees. In addition, many libraries are subject to laws that set minimum legal accessibility standards to ensure that individuals with disabilities are not excluded from spaces and services. It is therefore both ethically and, potentially, legally imperative that libraries focus on inclusion throughout their design process. Unfortunately, all too frequently, topics of accessibility and inclusivity are sidelined during building projects, limiting the options available when they are finally considered.
Through thoughtful design, it is possible to build spaces that are comfortable, welcoming, and inclusive for users and meet any relevant legal requirements. To achieve this, it is important to understand accessibility requirements and best practices, as well as the principles of Universal Design. Taken together, these offer guidance for successful design projects. This chapter introduces these topics, explains how they can improve library spaces, and suggests best practices for integrating them into building projects.
Through thoughtful design, it is possible to build spaces that are comfortable, welcoming, and inclusive for users and meet any relevant legal requirements. To achieve this, it is important to understand accessibility requirements and best practices, as well as the principles of Universal Design. Taken together, these offer guidance for successful design projects. This chapter introduces these topics, explains how they can improve library spaces, and suggests best practices for integrating them into building projects.
Graphic Math: A Collection of Interviews With Creators of Mathematically Themed Graphic Novels
Audrey A. Nasar
- 2021
- Science and Math
- Text
- Articles
- Interviews
This article presents interviews with five noteworthy creators of mathematically themed graphic novels in effort to provide insight into how they developed their storylines and visuals to incorporate mathematical concepts. The creators interviewed include Larry Gonick of the educational graphic series The Cartoon Guide to (Gonick and Smith, 1993; Gonick and Huffman, 2008; Gonick, 2012; Gonick, 2015), Robert Lewis and Jennifer Granville of Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations (Granville and Granville, 2019), Apostolos Doxiadis of Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Doxiadis et al., 2009), and Gene Luen Yang of Secret Coders (Yang and Holmes, 2015). Two of the interviewees created graphic novels for scholastic purposes and were therefore guided by pedagogy, while the others let the story be their guide. Despite these differences, the combination of interviews offers advice and suggestions for writers, illustrators, and educators interested in creating or using mathematical graphic content. The interviews took place between the 5th of June and 31st of December, 2020.