[Nettime-bold] mediawork 16 | Print Post Print

["Peter Lunenfeld" <peterl@artcenter.edu>]

mediawork 16 | Print Post Print
Saturday | May 19 | 1-6 PM | LAT Media Center
Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida St. | Pasadena, CA 91103

For decades, the design of dynamic media derived many of its precepts from
the traditions of graphic design. Recently, though, the flow has shifted.
Motion graphics, Flash animations, title design, broadcast graphics,
net.art, hypertext, and the like are exerting ever more influence on
contemporary print design. Print may not be the dominant medium anymore, but
as notions of the paperless society and the death of the book look ever more
absurd, this is a good point to examine what print is, and where it should
go, in a post print environment. London's Eye magazine wrote recently that a
group of independent designers has emerged "working together to foster what
has become a highly focused, technologically literate creative community in
the sprawling enormity of the LA basin." mediawork: The Southern California
New Media Working Group invite you to join some of the region's leading
designers -- Anne Burdick, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Geoff Kaplan, Rebeca
Méndez, and Louise Sandhaus -- as they show their transmedia work and
discuss the Moebius strip connecting print and post print design.

mediawork is free, but please RSVP to <peterl@artcenter.edu> or 626.568.4710
to reserve a seat. Directions to Art Center can be found at
<www.artcenter.edu> or call the main switchboard 626.396.2200. The LAT Times
Media Center is on the lower level, park in the student lot.

As an added attraction, during the break between sessions, we will be
hosting a release party and signing for long time mediawork participant Lev
Manovich, whose book, The Language of New Media, has just been published by
the MIT Press <www.manovich.net>.  Finally, Art Center's Williamson Gallery
will be open before and after mediawork, featuring Telematic Connections -
The Virtual Embrace, a show of interactive and networked art curated by
Steve Dietz of the Walker Art Center <telematic.walkerart.org>.

Participants

Anne Burdick is the principle of The Offices of Anne Burdick, a hybrid
practice, mixing commercial graphic design,with editing/curating projects,
design research and criticism, literary collaborations, and design
education. Burdick's client-collaborators work (and play) in the arenas of
experimental fiction, lexicography, electronic literature, poetry,
criticism, and conceptual art. Burdick is the design editor of ebr - The
Electronic Book Review ­ and guest edited ebr6/7, "image+narrative." The
Fackel Wörterbuch, a 1,200 page dictionary of idioms that she designed for
the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1999-2000 was awarded the Golden Letter,
the highest honor given in the Preisträger des Wettbewergs "Schönste Bücher
aus aller Welt 2001" competition.  <www.burdickoffices.com>

Denise Gonzales Crisp is a self-proclaimed "decorationalist." She has been
the senior designer for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California, for nearly four years. She simultaneously maintains the studio
SuperStove! where she designs the quarterly artext magazine, and
collaborates with artists, writers and other designers. She is designing
Utopian Entrepreneur, by Brenda Laurel, the first installment of the
Mediawork Pamphlets series, which will be published by the MIT Press in the
fall. She is a core faculty member in Art Center's graduate Media Design
program.

Geoff Kaplan is the head of General Working Group, a design studio located
in Atwater Village, Los Angeles. He has produced both motion projects, web
and print work for Cranbrook Academy of Art, CalArts, MOCA, The Walker Art
Center, Oliver Stone, Channel One, Reebok, and AIA. Several projects by
Kaplan are in SFMOMA's permanent design collection. He currently teaches at
CalArts. <www.generalworkinggroup.com>

Rebeca Méndez is principal and creative director of Rebeca Méndez
Communication Design, the proprietor of reasonsense® productions, and the
Senior Partner and creative director of Ogilvy & Mather's Brand Integration
Group. She was creative director of Art Center's Design Office from 1991 to
1996. She has worked in print, brand identity, digital media, and television
for clients ranging from Microsoft, to the Tsunami Asian Grill in Las Vegas,
to director Mike Figgis, on his groundbreaking digital feature, Timecode.
Her work was featured in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt's inaugural National
Design Triennial. Other recent honors include participation in the ACD's One
Hundred Show and RESFEST's Digital Film Festival.

Louise Sandhaus is co-director of the Graphic Design Program at CalArts and
partner in Durfee Regn Sandhaus, a multi-disciplinary design firm that
develops material and electronic "information spaces." Recent projects
include LACMA¹s controversial exhibition, Made in California, and upcoming
projects for UCLA Hammer Museum, and the Huntington Library. Print projects
include designing the journal Errant Bodies, guest editing the "Mutant
Design" issue of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, and serving as
co-editor and co-design director with Anne Burdick for the ACD Journal "New
Media. New Narratives?" <www.drsstudio.com>


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