los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

farnoosh RAFAIE: Color Code provides the opportunity for the individual to generate trigger and sequential memory through the cyclical display of the woven light fixture. As a color is chosen through the control panel, the activated pump runs the initial dye through the transparent tubing. When a sequence is made complete, the secondary color follows, prompting the primary dye to return back to the sourced supply.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Artist: Studio 400, Cal Poly — SLO
annie BUI, ben HAIT-CAMPBELL, ian CARNEY, hanya CHEN, dion DEKKER, christina HACKETT, nathan KIATKULPIBOONE, mariko KOBAYASHI, emily KIRWAN, mike LOREE, ross MAJEWSKI, isshin MORIMOTO, ryan NEVIUS, nick PAPPAS, alma PADILLA-IRIARTE, farnoosh RAFAIE, pablo SANDOVAL, shanna SULLIVAN, joe VARHOLICK, cory WALKER.

Advisor: Professor karen LANGE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
studio400: “We wanted to create a continuous surface that would bring spatial interest and social interaction to the gallery. The woven installation is a solution to providing students and faculty a setting to not only read about our projects, but also to enjoy the space.”

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nicolas PAPPAS, emily HO, karen WANG, & nathan KIATKULPIBOONE: Designed as part of the reKinetic exhibit displayed at Kennedy Library in San Luis Obispo, California, SWARMbrella explores the potentials of a kinetic skin developed through re-used objects. The concept of a swarm drove the design, as the movement of each module affects the behavior of its neighbors. Through the repetition of an individual module, the skin takes on properties that exceed the possibilities of any single unit. The surface can twist and turn, taking on countless forms without sacrificing structural rigidity.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
critic: stephen PHILLIPS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

brian HARMS: My thesis Involved the reconsideration of the role of robotic technology within the factory. The project is a flexible robotic manufacturing plant located at the edge of the Port of Los Angeles adjacent to San Pedro. It aims to rethink/reconfigure/redesign this production-oriented technology in a way that allows the factory’s program, atmosphere, and physical presence to be constantly renegotiated by the same technology it houses.

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santa monica CALIFORNIA

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
critic: stephen PHILLIPS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nema ASHJAEE: This biennale in downtown LA expresses the modern Network Culture on multiple levels. Aside from its obvious network morphology, the structure itself is conceived from a bottom-up methodology that builds an open framework to accept event and display spaces. Network Culture’s temporal nature is further expressed in the temporary structure as it reconfigures every two years to accommodate a new organization of spaces.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

juanito OLIVARRIA: Ministry of Indulgence: PART ONE (VIDEO); Part TWO (VIDEO).

In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes, in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked. — Søren Kierkegaard

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guadalajara MEXICO

sucker PUNCH: Describe your project.

juan carlos VAZQUEZ: A modern laboratory designed to alter the culture of research and its sister industry with architecture. An attempt to encourage encounters between material engineers, biologist, and artist to formulate and sustain an environment of cooperation. Laboratories today are plagued with over competition among colleagues creating a culture of secrecy, which hinders the creative process. An interdisciplinary laboratory eases tensions among colleagues by mixing scientist, engineers and artist from different fields who give input and suggestions for innovations within the laboratory. This laboratory type encourages novel ideas explored through this cross pollination of disciplines.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

edward BECKER: As a response to the geometric theories of Gottfried Semper, specifically the idea of organic matter unfolding from standard base geometries through standard processes, this project is specifically focused on the creation of base components that through their transformation-mirroring,rotating,duplication- generate compact and fundamentally similar objects.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

studio400: This Is Not a Book Cave was a collaborative installation that was designed, fabricated, and installed in a period of less than three weeks with the goal of displaying and reading thesis books. Donated cardboard tubes, previously bound for recycling, were cut into predetermined lengths, ranging from less than an inch to four feet then clustered into a series of modules. The arrangement of different modules allowed for variance in form, while simultaneously creating changes in transparency and visual affect.

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