Common Canvas
2018
Custom software application, projection
of digital image database

In a hyper-connected world based on digital networks, chats, and live streams, we are surrounded by fluctuating images. Detached from material origins, from aspects of time and cultural relationships, the visual world is moving together on our virtual desktops. Since visual tools are limited and developed by global companies, graphic designers constantly have to question and extend the given formats. Common Canvas provides a new drawing tool that invites international graphic design students to speculate on the important questions of our time.

Programming: Jeffrey Scudder

Partial list of participating art and design universities:

Sulki Choi, Kaywon School of Art & Design, South Korea

Matthew Chrislip, Central Saint Martins, London UK

Ricardo Portilho, Minas Gerais State University, Belo Horizonte Brazil

Knoth & Renner, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany

Markus Lange, German University Cairo, Egypt

Emily Smith & Eloïse Harris, University of Applied Sciences Europe, Berlin, Germany

Colin Frazer, CalArts, Santa Clarita, United States