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JURY FEATURE A+D Museum is excited to announce our REALTIME & INTERACTIVE / ON THE SCREEN jury member Carrie Chen! Carrie Chen (she/her) is an artist based in Los Angeles. She works with CG animation, game engine simulation and installation to explore how digital figuration can be a poetic and multidimensional means to express ideas about hybridity, representation, time and memory. Carrie’s practice draws on non-Western ontologies while engaging with the complexities of intercultural identity, social behavior, digital bodies, culture and technology. Carrie has exhibited and held talks internationally. She is a recipient of the 2024 STRP Award for Creative Technology and has been recognized as the 2024 Emerging Curator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Her expanded practice involves curation, lectures, art direction, and design commissions. She teaches Advanced Visual Communication at USC’s Media Arts + Practice, and 3D Arts at Parsons Design and Technology.Her work seen here is Primavera 春, a digital simulation in which the artist depicts herself at multiple life stages, all coexisting within a blossoming spring landscape. Using artificial intelligence, Chen generated “aged” versions of herself and synthesized them with archival family images, 3D avatars, and motion capture technology to create digital selves that exist in alternate timelines and imagined histories. These avatars interact dynamically in a sprawling floral meadow, partaking in activities such as dancing, running, swimming, observing, and embracing—allegories of childhood, pleasure, beauty, and renewal.By engaging with and recontextualizing visual pastiche found in Renaissance and Romantic period art, this work challenges and reorients established Western male-dominated, art-historical narratives. A body that has not been allowed to appear now owns the viewer’s gaze.As a meditation on time and existence, Primavera 春 invites viewers to engage with the notion of life as a cyclical journey with multiple, coexisting narratives permeated with ancestral echoes, both rooted in the past and extending into the future.

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Few days away from June 9th’s A+D Museum’s Killingsworth Home Tour! We still have 3 tickets left! Check out our eventbrite link to book now for our 11am tour! https://lnkd.in/gJxcDv_C

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A+D Museum is thrilled to open our next jury feature with our SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS/ LARGE SCALE jury Zohra Akhter.Zohra Akhter is the Departmental Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Architect for the City of Los Angeles’s Bureau of Engineering, a bureau responsible for the design and construction of the City’s capital improvement projects. Zohra is passionate about making a positive environmental impact in the built environment and believes that City governments have a unique opportunity to lead by example in implementing green building policies.Zohra is responsible for guiding sustainability policies and implementing LEED and Net-Zero Energy in city buildings.Currently, she is leading the ambitious effort to create a roadmap for decarbonizing Los Angeles’s existing municipal buildings, a portfolio of nearly 1,000 buildings. She is also engaged in discussions around zero-emission construction equipment, embodied carbon reduction policy, and bio-diversity policy implementation in capital improvement projects.

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AERENCHYMA currently on view at A+D Museum’s Los Angeles : A Model City.Model Work by RILEY HAMMONDUniversity: UCLA Studio Instructor: Julia Koerner Studio Title: Fit for the Future 2.0Year Made: 2024Dimensions: 4’ x 4’ x 4”Medium / Materials: 3D Printing / PLAAerenchyma are the cellular formations found in the stems of a variety of plants. Their porous structures provide lightweight strength to the otherwise fragile plants while doubling as vertical oxygen tubes that pump water and air through the stems to increase the photosynthesis process in harsh environmental conditions. The model studies the geomtric structures of Aerenchyma and translates them into discernable and rationalized geomtric patterns which serve as a digital arsenal of potential architectural applications.Come take a closer look during operation hours Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-6pm !Photohgraphy by Riley

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“To all those brave enough to imagine a new world of being, and then committing to making it tangible and real, thank you for your dedication to seeing it through. We salute your work and your ambitions. Thank you for sharing your dreams.” - Jason E.C. Wright Introducing our next juror for Design Awards 2024 for our WEARABLES and PRINTED MATTER category, Jason E.C. Wright is an educator, documentary photographer, Founder and Director at Burntsienna Research Society - a private artbook library and institute for slow design research. A twenty year veteran of the fashion industry, Wright has instructed at FIDM spoken and moderated for AIGA Design, A+D Museum, LA Design Festival , MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art , more. Through Burntsienna, he continues to lead programming and curriculum around artbooks and slow research practices for product developers, design firms, retail and hospitality owner/operators, and independent creative professionals.Burntsienna Research Society provides programming around artbooks-as-first-reference materials, and curriculum around slow research practices. The social practice is rooted in The Burntsienna Standards, on responsible research and slow design thinking. Be on the lookout for our next jury feature!

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Amazing to hear our Board Member Silvia Kuhle, FAIA achievements and wishing her a big congrats! 🎊🎉🍾

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“By participating in the Design Awards, you become part of a community that values interdisciplinary exchanges and celebrates the transformative power of design. Your contributions, whether as an individual or a collective, have the potential to inspire and shape the future of design, influencing how we interact with the world around us.“-Sanghyun SuhThe A+D Museum is pleased to kick off with our first up close Juror Features starting with Sanghyun Suh one of our AI & GENERATIVE ART/ MEDIUM SCALE jurors.Sanghyun Suh is an architect, researcher, and educator holding an MS in Architectural Technology from SCI-Arc, complemented by a Master of Architecture and Master of Engineering from The Ohio State University . His professional journey includes roles as a Project Designer at Patterns and a Designer at Isida Rehm Studio. Sanghyun has contributed as an Associate Researcher at SCI-Arc, funded by Epic Games & Google AMI. With a passion for education, he’s taught at UCLA, Seoul National University, and SCI-Arc, engaging in programs like Digital Futures and the AA Visiting School Seoul. His multifaceted expertise, coupled with a commitment to architectural education and research, establishes Sanghyun Suh as an emerging designer and researcher within the architectural community and its surrounding disciplines.Most Recently Sanghyun has worked on MACHINE CONTEXTUALISM,which explores how machines perceive context differently from humans, starting with the question of machine vision. While humans interpret context based on hierarchy, characteristics, and emotional responses, machines may offer a unique perspective.While questioning the following; Can machines capture the essence of human culture through their sensors?-MACHINE CONTEXTUALISM aims to bridge human and machine senses, reassembling and transforming contextual information through image analysis.Situated in downtown Los Angeles, the project utilizes empty parking lots to collect diverse contextual data. Unlike human-centric prioritization, machines interpret context without hierarchical biases, offering a novel lens on urban environments.Link to Project Video for Full View: https://lnkd.in/gXeM-3raBe on the lookout for our next Feature!

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A+D Museum is honoured to be featured on Archinect for this Design Awards 2024 season!💡🙌🏼We have a good team and we are excited to keep the work going!

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