TWA

In “TWA: Total Work of Art,” we invite artists, designers, writers, programmers, and anyone else interested to shapeshift their concept across three modalities: 1) digital, 2) physical, and 3) temporal. Inspired by wide-ranging examples of design as world-building — think Bauhaus, Beyoncé, Bernadette Corporation — this workshop responds to how culture is experienced today, inviting participants to develop a core concept across multiple forms and points of access.

This 7 week workshop is led by three teachers: Stephen Kwok, Laurel Schwulst, and Bryant Wells. Meeting twice a week (on Thursdays and Sundays), each session includes conversational lectures, technical demonstrations, presentation and critique time, and guest visits. The workshop culminates in a public event in which the participants present the totality of their work.

Keywords

• World-building
• Translation
• Transportation
• Access
• Shapeshifting
• Relational
• Responsive
• Architecture
• Ambient

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Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text into participatory systems. He lives in Brooklyn, teaches design at Brooklyn College, and serves as the Curator of Public Engagement at Dia Art Foundation.

Laurel Schwulst is an artist, designer, writer, educator, and technologist interested in ambient forms of design and literature, public works, and the poetic potential of the world wide web. Laurel currently teaches design at Princeton University and founded Fruitful School.

Bryant Wells is a New York-based designer who works independently and collaboratively with artists, writers, musicians, and institutions to create websites, publications, identities, and objects. His practice explores the political and cultural effects shaping networked communication, and the metaphorical and material implications of "what’s in the air.” Bryant teaches design at the Parsons School of Design and the Yale Graphic Design MFA.

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