Inhabiting Media
Inhabiting Media was a seminar and exhibition that Grace Ong Yan taught and lead while she was the Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo. students developed environments as a participatory medium, creating Relationships between construction and inhabitant.
Inhabiting Media exhibition with voting completed. Each student design installation, represented by a color, was ranked by exhibition visitors from 1 to 6. The "voting wall" represents visual data offered by a participatory system--ultimately revealing that which incites, motivates , and propels human response and inhabitation.
As an analysis of consumer culture, focus was placed on visually engaging characteristics: light, sound, text, image and color. simultaneously borrowing from and critiquing capitalistic procedures. The group exhibition was installed in at the Dyett Gallery, UB School of Architecture & Planning, and the CEPA Gallery, Buffalo.
Three student installations exploring engaging the inhabitant through text, graphics, and photographic image.
Three student installations exploring engaging the inhabitant with sound, kinetic graphics, and color/text.
Ranking the student installations with color-coded Plexiglas pieces.
Student installation involving an inhabitant's relationship with enveloping mesh with projections.
Student installation investigating relationships of the body.