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The design practice of Cady Bean-Smith

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Useful Ambiguity

Exhibition design, curation, writing, publication design

This small scale exhibition featured a curated a collection of international graduate student projects around the theme of "Useful Ambiguity" in design practice. We installed the selected pieces as video projections against a window in North Carolina State University’s Allred Gallery. The object labels describing the videos were built as composites in three layers: a digital projection, a printed transparency, and a printed and mounted white paper.

A set of orange folded one-sheets installed on a gallery wall served as the take-away supplement to the exhibition. The sheets contained relevant excerpts from influential texts and original curatorial position language. Visitors collected orange sheets, covered them with a white half sheet, and bound the set with an oversized rubber band to create and customize their own publication.

Collaborator: Samyul Kim
Featured artists: James Auger (with Jimmy Loizeau), Eric Sui, Richard The, Jiyeon Song, Stewart Smith, Michael Kontopoulos, Samyul Kim, JooYoun Paek, and Lauren McCarthy.

Mounted in support of NCSU's 2010 Biennial Graduate Symposium: Design, Community, and the Rhetoric of Authenticity

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