FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION: please call (512) 322-2099
Hana Hillerova, Director, Creative Research Laboratory
EXHIBITION DATES: May 6- May 27, 2006
RECEPTION: Saturday, May 6, 6 - 9 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12-5 pm
2006 UT SENIOR DESIGN SHOW
Works by 22 Graduating Seniors in Design
May 6 - May 27, 2006
You're invited to the only place where you'll be able to eat your words, learn Helvetica jokes, and annoy 22 design seniors with the question: "What is design?" (Or even better, "do you have a job yet?")
There is no simple answer to the question of "What is design?"-- There is the idealists' response: design solves problems and makes people's lives better. There is the cynical retort: we make things look pretty. And then there is the more accurate, more complicated, and far lengthier explanation that involves processes of working, iterations of ideas, the melding of form + content, and the concise presentation of projects. But if you really want to go into all THAT, come talk to us in person at the opening. (And before you ask us "What kind of design?"-- Our program is "interdisciplinary," so we've done a little bit of everything from graphic to products to environments to interactive multimedia... and we've each had to figure out for ourselves what comes next.)
"So, seriously, what is design?" Ask 22 designers, and you're likely to get 22 different answers. But the core of the group's response should be of the same spirit because we've been through Design Boot Camp together for the past 3 years. We've been straining our eyes in front of computer screens, ruining our postures hunched over X-Acto blades, and mastering daunting machines the likes of letterpresses, vacuum formers, and guillotines... so come to the opening, and let us show you some cool work. While you're at it, enjoy our ice sculpture, choose a limited edition collectible button to take home, and give us jobs so that we can keep doing this thing called design.
Heart,
Angela Pan, Angela Turner, Caren Lewis, Casey Morse, Christina
Tran, Cindy Chang, Elana Farley, Gena Fishbeck, Hunter
Thomas, Joyce Lee, Julianna Budding, Kelly Green, Ksenija
Kuzmina, Laura Janisch, Leslie Lewis, Maura Murnane, Mike
Lozano, Paul DeVay, Paula Ring, Ryan Willis, Rick Kocian, &
Samantha Lipman
Also - check out our website at:
http://www.utdesigners.com
The Creative Research Laboratory is a component of the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts in the Department of Art and Art History. It serves as a flexible interdisciplinary educational environment, advancing professional practices in Studio Art, Art History, Design, Visual Art Studies and Art Education. As a creative incubator, it is designed to facilitate collaboration between artists and scholars and connect with diverse communities at large. Creative Research Laboratory presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions of work by students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, and facilitates workshops, performances, demonstrations, seminars and collaborations. Creative Research Lab is located in East Austin at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, inside Flatbed World Headquarters. There is ample free parking and bus service available on Capitol Metro's route 18. The activities of the Department of Art and Art History and the Creative Research Laboratory are free and open to the public.
For more information about the Creative Research Lab contact Gallery Director Hana Hillerova, crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu, or 512.322.2099.
For more information about the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, contact Carolyn Porter, carolynp@mail.utexas.edu, 512.471.3379.
Hana Hillerova
Director: Creative Research Laboratory
at the Department of Art and Art History,
University of Texas at Austin
2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78702
directions: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/map.html
phone: (512) 322-2099
email: crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu
url: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/
gallery hours: Tu-Sat, 12-5 p.m