Benjamin Faga

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Design Interactions, 2010

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  07961 687976
  http://www.benfaga.com

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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.

• 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