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May 13, 2004
Abstract for this project:
Title: The Hybrid Practitioner : appropriation as an evolutionary catalyst in graphic design
This research programme explores generative possibilities available through the act of appropriation. Howóand at what pointódoes appropriation advance beyond the derivative, and open up new questioning and new paths to the practitioner and audience? Central to this study will be the understanding that as evolution and hybridity are pervasive, all design is appropriation.
The act of cross-cultural appropriation will be explored via a questioning of the values inherent in different notions of identity. The hybrid identities and conflicted relationships that frame this research are symptomatic of graphic designs co-dependent relationship with popular culture.
The projects within this study will be situated in relation to borders and boundaries, spaces where taxonomies fail in the presence of new hybrid forms, as these intersections are seen as rich places in which to locate oneís practice.
Posted by Luke Wood at May 13, 2004 08:39 PM