Benjamin Faga
MA work
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Bear Walking Near Haggerston Railway Station, Benjamin Faga
C-type printBear Walking Near Haggerston Railway Station, Benjamin Faga
C-type print
When does an object come to life? Does the tank that holds a fish count as part of the compounded fish? Without it, surely the fish would die.
Using a variety of methods including: storytelling, sculpture-making, performance, walks, recordings and dance, Becoming Critter examines the nature cultures that have developed through the co-mingling of technology and the environment.
I am not looking to an ideal world or at the possibility of future doom.
I am looking at how designing to become with, is designing to become worldly.
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Design
Programme
MA Design Interactions, 2010
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Contact
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07961 687976
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When does an object come to life? Does the tank that holds a fish count as part of the compounded fish? Without it, surely the fish would die.
Using a variety of methods including: storytelling, sculpture-making, performance, walks, recordings and dance, Becoming Critter examines the nature cultures that have developed through the co-mingling of technology and the environment.
I am not looking to an ideal world or at the possibility of future doom.
I am looking at how designing to become with, is designing to become worldly.
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Degrees
- BFA, Fine Art, University of Minnesota, 2008; BA, Contemporary Art History, University of Minnesota, 2008
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Experience
- Frieze art fair gallery consultant, Richard Telles Gallery, London, 2009; Research associate in art and technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2007/8; Teaching assistant in Interactive Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2007/8
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Exhibitions
- Flat 35, Market Estates Project, London, 2010; Interactivos?’08: Tecnologias de la Risa, Cultural Center of Spain, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008; Culturing Nature Culturing Technology, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2008; Site/Life Mapping, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2007
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Awards
- Gay M Grossman Memorial Art Scholarship, 2008; Marjorie M Finch Art Scholarship, 2008; University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Research Grant, 2007