June 23 – June 27, 2021
2021년 6월 23일 – 6월 27일
3-B Gallery, CICA Museum
My work facilitates a synthesis between a verbal and visual experience. At this intersection, the material concerns of the physical world and the computational processes of digital media work in concert with the semiotic interpretations and meaning building of our reading experiences. I see these relationships as a dialogue between seeing, making, and understanding.
Much of my focus of the past several years has engaged explorative-based research outside of a conventional typographic or design production context, and incorporates contemporary fine-art perspectives e.g., working with foods, found materials, a variety of animation styles, and endurance art (art that pushes the physical limits of the body). These pursuits assure I explore new territory and allow me to see the potentiality of typographic form and the visual representation of language with fresh eyes. They offer atypical methodologies, offbeat working intentions, and distinct historical contexts. These excursions outside the realm of conventional typographic design practice both critique and expand the resiliency of my own creative intuitions, sensibilities, and practices while expanding my work to exist in both ‘Design’ and ‘Art’ contexts.
This constant interplay between word and image has yielded especially fertile ground and serves as the common thread connecting all my creative activity. I shift freely between static and dynamic media, and by doing so am able to explore the rich diversity, impact, and beauty of words. My ambitions as a communicator are to reconsider the conventions through which we experience texts and images by way of exploring the simultaneously independent and interdependent nature of their relationship.
Tore Terrasi is an Intermedia artist and designer whose work spans static and dynamic media. His ambitions as a communicator are to reconsider the conventions through which we experience texts and images by way of exploring the simultaneously independent and interdependent nature of their relationship. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2005. Terrasi’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and published, including “Currents ” International New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, “L’Hybride Cinema Les Mots S’Animent (The Words Animated/Animation and Typography)” in Lille, France, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Cooper Union in New York, “Typomania ” at The Moscow Museum of Russia, “TypoDay” in India, and “Forward Festival” in Austria. He has also presented at TypeCon, an annual conference presented by the Society of Typographic Aficionados and numerous other venues. Terrasi is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Tore Terrasi, “Memory” (2003)