UNCOVERED: Shane Neill and Virginia Fernandez
The winter term UNCOVERED lecture series begins Monday March 11th, with a talk by UWSA graduate students Shane and Virginia about their 2013 Come Up to My Room installation 15,000 Rosaries.
Fictional Territories – 15,000 Rosaries at Come Up to My Room
15,000 Rosaries is one of nine room installations at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event, open this weekend as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. UWSA students Shane Neill and Virginia Fernandez comprise 2 of the 3 part non-profit art collaborative Fictional Territories. 15,000 Rosaries Traditions contain within themselves latent opportunities to undermine the totalizing forces of globalization; that which is freely given over can be incomparably more...
3B Chair Projects at Come Up to My Room
Two 3B chair projects will be featured at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event: a chair for Jorge Luis Borges by Aidan Mitchelmore and Andrew Ashbury and a chair for Jiro Ono by Haley Zhou and Lauren Tom. In both cases, digital fabrication made the designs possible. The poetry and short stories of Jorge Luis Borges are often driven by complex philosophical themes such as labyrinths, dreams, recursion,...