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  • MAS 005 Gestures and Displays

  • MAS 005 Gestures and Displays

  • Ausstellungsdesign
    Szenografie
    Kuratorische Studien und dramaturgische Praxis
    Dokumentation
    2020
    2019
    2018
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    •     1-9 Gestaltung Cécile Kobel & Severin Geißler
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    • Betreuung:
      Andreas Müller, James Langdon

      Studierende/r:
      Francesca Audretsch (Kunstwissenschaft), Severin Geißler (Kommunikationsdesign), Ioana Spanachi (Kunstwissenschaft), Christina Scheib (Szenografie und Ausstellungsdesign), Klemens Czurda (Medienkunst)

    • The starting point for this issue is a collection of digital images belonging to designer James Langdon. These images — around 300 — are of a specific type, readily found on amateur archaeology websites and forums. They show objects once buried in the ground, now dug up and presented to the camera. The objects themselves are various and probably not valuable. What defines this collection, though, are the hands that hold the objects: their poses, gestures, and the messages they seem to convey.

      These are gestures of display. The positions of the hands — flat, open palms; grips and closures; offering and pointing signs — serve as a frame to mediate the objects they hold. The camera forces these to be communicative gestures, but there is something immediate here too. Objects shaped by humans signal to other humans. Even the most primitive tools make affordances that signal to our hands: wield me, covet me, behold me. In these photographs we witness the reception of these signals — sometimes doubtful, sometimes deterministic, sometimes speculative — and we see the circular dynamic between hand, eye, and brain on display.

      To facilitate the conversation reproduced on the following pages, prints from the image collection were arranged on a large working table in the HfG Karlsruhe. Around the table a group of commentators spread the images out, compared and discussed them. Present were James Langdon, art historian Matthias Bruhn, curator Nadja Quante, and the MAS editorial team. Matthias Bruhn is professor for art research and media theory at HfG Karlsruhe. Nadja Quante is artistic director at Künstlerhaus Bremen. James Langdon is professor for communication design at HfG Karlsruhe.
      The MAS team consisted of Francesca Audretsch (Kunstwissenschaft), Severin Geißler (Kommunikationsdesign), Ioana Spanachi (Kunstwissenschaft), Christina Scheib (Szenografie und Ausstellungsdesign), Klemens Czurda (Medienkunst).

      Order: mas@hfg-karlsruhe.de

    • Ausstellungsdesign
      Szenografie
      Kuratorische Studien und dramaturgische Praxis
      Dokumentation
      2020
      2019
      2018

      Betreuung: Andreas Müller, James Langdon

      Studierende/r:

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    • MAS 004: Jan van Toorn, Rethinking the Brief
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    • MAS: 003: László Moholy-Nagy, Der Kaufmann von Berlin
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    • MAS 001: Judith Barry, MAS 002: Stanisław Zamecznik
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