As a Methods and Concepts course, Spatial Presentation is an interdisciplinary studio course which concentrates on how space is visualized, conceptualized and represented. It is designed for students from all areas of the arts to help them develop the processes of organization and realization necessary for a working understanding of space as it applies to their practice. The course offers an introduction to the processes of vision and perception of space as well as the development of optical and perspectival systems that allow us to project into imagined and real space.
Furthermore, the aim of the course is to explore and analyze the theoretical and conceptual background of art practices engaged with spatial concepts, notions of representation, and public and social space. The course is imagined as a laboratory and is organized as a research-based working environment with an emphasis on group work and collaborations.
For a talk and two of our class critiques we were fortunate to have artist Marilou Lemmens and Richard Ighby as guests. Students presented the assignment of "My Day", a 2D representation of a day as a complex graph and sheet of visual information. Marilou and Richards' discussion about their artistic translation of graphs and diagrams inspired students beyond the assignment.
Faculty supervisor: Sabine Bitter
Teaching Assistant: Graeme Wahn, who also provided fantastic photos for this website.
Students: Tina Alidaei, Zeenah Alsamarrai, Keting Dong, Kathy Feng, Jesse Fernandez, Jana Ghimire, Phoebe Huang, Ruilan King, Carolina Krawczyk, Gillian Lai, Haylee Marx, Vitoria Monteiro, Tyler Pengelly, Mason Rezazadeh, Ivan So, Kitty Walker, Elisha Wang, Rachel Warwick, Carmen Wong, June Yeo and Abbey Zhang.