Periodic Table of Elements: A Collaborative Installation
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Installations
I would like to introduce you to a project that has been in the works for quite some time. Last year I proposed over 14 different ideas for artwork installations in the new Hoeffner Science and Technology Center to the administration at East Stroudsburg University. The first of these installations is based upon the Periodic Table of Elements (see below for details). It has been a long process of approvals and revisions but it looks like this first installation (hopefully of many) is going to move forward rapidly — with hopes of it being completed by the end of the spring semester.
Normally, each semester, in my Communication Graphics class I have my students work on an introductory typography project called the Letterform/Counterform Project. This project’s goal is to take two different letterforms and combine them in such a way as to accentuate/highlight certain interesting and/or aesthetically pleasing elements of these letterforms while also considering the overall composition in a rectangular format. This semester my Communication Graphics students will be doing this project, but instead of choosing arbitrary letterforms, they will each be given 5 or 6 of the elements on the periodic table of elements to use. When completed, they will be printed, and displayed in frames in the hallway of the 2nd floor of the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center, directly opposite of the Chemistry Analytics labs. The frames will be arranged in the same order and configuration as the periodic table of elements, as pictured below. This is the first step in (hopefully) a few more collaborations between the science and art departments.
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Innovations
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Drawings, Events, Installations, Shows
Of all of the juried shows that I have had my artwork shown in these past few years, I am most excited about this show: ‘Innovations’ at the Dowd Gallery of SUNY Cortland in Cortland, NY (the show runs from January 18th – March 2nd, 2012). The work accepted in this show “represents innovations in concept, subject or media use” — which is one of my main objectives in creating any piece of art. Both of the pieces I submitted were accepted to the exhibition [pictured below] and I will be venturing up to SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery to present an Artist Talk/Lecture and/or a Workshop for the students at SUNY Cortland sometime in the first week or two of February 2012. Please read the written statement that I submitted for ‘Innovations’ here.
The first work that has been accepted to ‘Innovations’ is a digital print intervention titled: Mapping the Probability of Archetypical Configurations of Elementary Particles in Thought-Space and will appear in Bowers Hall (the science building) on the campus of SUNY Cortland.
In case you are interested in some of the jargon on this poster, here are some details:
The other piece that was accepted is Transmeanderation Helix (Parts 1, 2 & 3) and will be installed in the Dowd Gallery. Here is Transmeanderation Helix as it appeared at the William King Museum in 2010:
Amputees [War]
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital
![Amputee[War]_1](http://www.davidmazure.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/AmputeeWar_1.jpg "Amputee[War]_1")
Logopond
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Logo
I have just recently become a member of Logopond. In the design courses I teach I have always recommended Logopond to my students to use as reference and/or inspiration. And, since I’ve designed a few logos in my day, I figured I would join the online logo community. You can check out my logo showcase here (or just click on the image below).
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Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital
Zodiac (Unused)
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Diagrams, Digital, Drawings
This may be the last of my ‘digging-into-the-past-for-old-artwork’ posts. This one is titled Zodiac. I vividly remember spending hours upon hours on this project. It was intended to be printed digitally as an inkjet print and then installed as one long diagram/drawing (as if you connected the four pieces below into one long strip). It is a shame that I never did anything with this, especially considering how much time and energy I expended upon it.
