CALL TO ARTISTS / ARCHITECTS / DESIGNERS

POST FACT: Visualizing Information

An abundant range of potentialities for visualizing information has emerged.  Data is increasingly being used to generate complexity in the design of graphics, packaging, objects, exhibition spaces, interiors, and architecture.  Across the allied disciplines, shaping an experience by marrying visual metaphor to information has taken on deeper meaning in our globally connected world.  Inducing complexity to frame a particular point of view that connects, addresses, inspires, or confounds can offer new portals into a project.  By seeking such complexity, designers engage critical opportunities to define, frame, and focus seen and unseen forces operating across time, space, and context.  Thus, an ability to simultaneously convey simplicity through greater complexity offers new territory for both author and audience.  Today, research and diagramming are being applied in unconventional ways.  Aesthetically and procedurally elaborate, such methods – on occasion approaching art, o
ffer sophisticated and stimulating tools that provide clarity through visual richness.  post fact:visualizing information seeks work in graphic design, industrial design, exhibition design, interior design, and architecture that showcases various research-based methodologies employing data-driven design and information visualization.  The exhibition seeks trans-disciplinary work that illustrates the potential for complexity, simplification, and readability by employing techniques and forms of expression that expand the role of information in conceiving contemporary design.

Curators:

Diego Padilla Diaz de Leon
Professor, Department of Art and Design
DAAD, Universidad de Monterrey

Gregory Marinic
Professor, Department of Architecture
DAAD, Universidad de Monterrey

Please send the following:
CV and up to 10 JPEG images to:  postfact@d3space.org

Deadlines:

Call for Submissions Deadline: September 15, 2010
Accepted Submissions Annouced: October 1, 2010
Accepted Submissions Deadline: October 15, 2010
Exhibition Opens/Monterrey, Mexico: TBD Nov/Dec, 2010

For further information about POST FACT, please visit the ‘calls’ section of the d3 website:
www.d3space.org

About d3
Founded in 2008, d3 is an organization committed to advancing innovative positions in art, architecture, and design by providing a collaborative environment for artists, architects, designers, and students from throughout New York City and around the world.  Its program of exhibitions, events, and publications is focused on generating dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological, and disciplinary boundaries in art and the built environment.  d3’s mission seeks to unearth new approaches to connecting, form, space, and materiality with innovative notions of interior and exterior space at various scales.