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Student Showcase Archive

Benjamin Faga

MA work

MA work

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

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Design Interactions, 2010

  • 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.

  • Degrees

  • BFA, Fine Art, University of Minnesota, 2008; BA, Contemporary Art History, University of Minnesota, 2008
  • 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
  • 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
  • Awards

  • Gay M Grossman Memorial Art Scholarship, 2008; Marjorie M Finch Art Scholarship, 2008; University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Research Grant, 2007