Workshop
2018 April
ANTI-ANTI-ALIASING
RISD Graphic Design
Providence, RI
Jon Gacnik

This 3-day workshop asked RISD Graphic Design BFA students to introduced ANTI-ANTI-ALIASING as a provocation to examine on digital interactions. All final projects can be seen on our microsite. ANTI-ANTI-ALIASING is a moment of revealing and finding the seams that indicate what lies below a surface. Nostalgia often refers to something which was lost. Simulacra and simulation addresses the mass reproduction and reproducibility that characterizes our electronic media culture. Hyperrealism is an attempt to inject the tangible into the increasingly intangible. In the attempt to be hi-tech, the urban interface reminds us that we are living in pixels and bytes. For examples, please visit our are.na channel.

Special thanks to James Goggin

Schedule

Monday, April 2, 2018

• 13:10–13:20 — Introductions
• 13:20–14:00 — Lecture
• 14:00–15:00 — Exercise: Exquisite Corpse
• 15:00–15:30 — Exercise Presentation and Discussion
• 15:30–18:10 — Project: Diptychs, Working Time (in class sections)

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

• 11:20–14:30 — Project: Diptychs, Working Time (in class sections)
• 14:30–15:10 — Mini-Exhibition
• 15:10–16:20 — Final Presentation and Discussion

Exercise: Exquisite Corpse

As a group, we will create a communal quilt. In today's digital landscape, all images are presented in multiple forms. Using your assigned tile, create a translation that refers to the visual representations we have shown.

1. In your folder, you will find an image called exercise-#.jpg. Please remember your number!
2. Create a new representation of this image. It can be distorted, filtered, deconstructed, and/or magnified.
3. Print out your image on a letter-size sheet.
4. We will tile the images together on the ground to create a multiplicitous representation of RISD.

Project: Diptychs

Nowcasting, a term coined by media theorist Peter Lunenfeld, is the application of design theory to emerging issues of contemporary culture. We've tried to create a loose taxonomy of ANTI-ANTI-ALIASING in order to reveal the in-betweens of this transitional moment. Using a clear action, let's explore the visual language of ANTI-ANTI-ALIASING.

1. Each classroom will be assigned one of the four categories discussed during the lecture. For examples, please visit our are.na channel.
• John Caserta’s section: hyperreality
• Diane Lee’s section: nostalgia
• James Goggin’s section: urban interface
• Tom Ockerse’s section: simulacra
2. Using your respective category, find or create a source image. This can be a screenshot on your machine, a photograph from the physical world, etc.
3. Select one of four actions:
• deconstruct
• magnify
• expose
• filter
4. Using this action, create a composition that reinterprets or responds to your source image. This can be an image, gif, movie, or microsite. Consider motion, time, typography, etc.
5. Jon will give a tutorial for how to upload this into your diptych.
6. Upload your source image and final reinterpretation as a browser-based diptych.

Some Final Projects... To see final projects by all participants, please visit aaa.designforthe.net.

Brigitte → View site

Eliza → View site

Nicolas → View site

Raine → View site

Documentation

Photo by Mindy Seu

Photo by Jon Gacnik

Photo by Jon Gacnik

Photo by Lucinda Hitchcock