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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> _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold