Visiting Artist Michael Joaquin Grey
Michael Joaquin Grey is an artist, designer, inventor and entrepreneur. His popular educational toy ZOOB has won honors from ID Magazine, Consumer Reports, Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Astra and the American Toy Institute. Designed by Grey, ZOOB merges genetic engineering with Tinker Toys. As an artist, Grey has exhibited internationally and won Ars Electronica's Golden Nica Award. He is in the collections of museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, MOCA, Los Angeles, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Grey has served on the boards of Zero One, ATC and Eyebeam Atelier, among others. His current work investigates synesthetic cinema and computational filmmaking.
posted by Lee Arnold @ 7:30 PM
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I hadn’t realized before this class how many artist, never mind being digital or not, exist that are so interested in the relationship between science and form. Grey has a BS from UC Berkeley in Genetics, and an MFA from Yale- He is definitely a smart one. Maybe he didn’t go into the science aspect in his presentation because “we’re all art students”, but I wish he had. Though he didn’t go too deeply into the reasoning behind his work, the aesthetic quality is just as strong, and the piece can stand on its own. I liked his installation piece with the 21 parts laid out on the ground. Moving from left to right, a side of the object was removed, I think he said each one was supposed to represent a part of the body or personality. Michael Joaquin Grey has a very analytical view of things, yet his work still comes out organic, and maybe I’m wrong, but in my opinion, no where close to minimalism.
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