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Timeline created for the 2018 Diversity Studies Faculty Exhibition
No full textTimeline of dates of important events in the history of diversity at CCA/C created for the 2018 Diversity Studies Faculty Exhibition, by CCA Faculty Edduardo Pined
CCA 2018 Graduate Commencement
No full textVideo recording of the 2018 Graduate Programs Commencement ceremony
Designing Garments with Evolving Aesthetics in Emergent Systems
Full text linkThis paper presents an emergent systemic context in a current research project in which the authors are engaged. The research investigates the design of service-systems that facilitate the evolution of garments through multiple-use lives made possible with the strategic integration of textile decoration, built up in complexity over time, such as digital printing, over-dyeing and embroidery. The projects asks: What if a shirt were designed from the beginning as an integral part of a fashion service system? What if the design of both the product and the system enabled the object's aesthetic to evolve over time? The authors propose a system for iterative surface decoration of garments over time, as an alternative to purchasing additional garments to satisfy desire. Design for partial disassembly is a key aspect of this service-system. The authors argue that a rethinking of the current economic and business systems is required for such a service-system to flourish. Findings from the project so far are pointing to further research questions: What ramifications does an evolving aesthetic have for the role of fashion and textile designers, particularly if multiple designers drive the evolution over a period of time? What are the implications for the relationship between the designer and user in such a service-system? The authors speculate on various business models that would support these design-led approaches, including a sold product-service system, a leased product-service system, lease-to-buy, sold for customization, and informal shared use. The project speculates on factors to make such a system commercially replicable within a post-growth economic system. New language is required in such a systems redesign and the paper makes some propositions in this respect
Sonja Gerdes
Full text link"Cloaca Projects is situated in a small, garage-like space on the old industrial edge of San Francisco, a rapidly changing city dedicated more and more to new technical systems of hyperefficiency. Sonja Gerdes's recent project for Cloaca portrayed uncertain states of relation with such technologies as human beings lurch into the future. Her suite of sculptures represented living creatures as they become augmented, undermined, or superseded by built extensions. Individually and as an ensemble, they functioned as signs of dystopian outcomes amid a scientistic culture of optimism.
Diversity Studies Program Chairs and Ethnic Art Studies Directors
No full textService dates for Diversity Studies Program Chairs and Ethnic Art Studies from 1970-2018, with photographs
Doug Minkler interview
No full textPoster maker and political artist Doug Minkler talks about his experience creating the collaborative large scale "U.S. Out of Central America" sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats and his feelings about its subsequent demolition a day later. He discusses making and exhibiting political art, selling work on Telegraph Avenue and being left with the lesson of the Mudflats experience that, there, "a small group of people could have a big effect, that the number of people that saw that sculpture, even on one day, was profound
Oliver Art Center, during the Diversity Studies Faculty exhibit "Home", April 2018
No full textEntrance to the Oliver Art Center, CCA Oakland Campus, 2018
Studio Gang: California College of the Arts
No full textA PDF version of Studio Gang's web page devoted to the CCA campus redesign of the 2020s. Describes the project, shows early design models and drawings, and related projects.
"Studio Gang’s design for CCA’s new unified campus unlocks the potential of art and design education in the twenty-first century. The architecture connects disciplines in new ways through a vibrant indoor-outdoor environment, offering a highly sustainable model for the future of creative practices.
Noguchi’s Playscapes
Full text linkReview of Isamu Noguchi exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 15 – November 26, 2017
CCA/C Archives in the California College of the Arts' Meyer Library, 2018
No full textCCA/C Archives in the California College of the Arts' Meyer Library, February 2, 2018