Studio 01

4 (or 5) kinds of IMAGE

Alex Selenitsch

Studio Aims

1. to analyse exemplary works (in architecture, music, painting and film) through the categories of sets, series and suites;
2. to identify some of the uses of IMAGES in our culture;
3. based on (2) above, to design the rules for a multiple or group composition, based on sets, series, or suites, this being the THESIS proposal for each project;
4. to bring the research outcomes of these three studies into an architectural project.

The Project

a group of buildings which identify and house the production of 4 or 5 kinds of IMAGES that work in our culture. These may include: Fine art (say, painting or printmaking) possibly as education; Moving Images, possibly as entertainment; Photography, possibly as news; Graphics, possibly as marketing; Mapping, possibly as government. The buildings are to be scattered on a collection of nearby sites.

Feeding into this main project there will be

1. an individual sculptural exercise, using a small found object to demonstrate the formal possibilities of sets, series and suites;
2. Individual presentations of an exemplary work of architecture, painting, music or film;
3. group formulation of building briefs for each of the IMAGE industries, including surveys of IMAGE use.

Studio Leader

ALEX SELENITSCH: is a Melbourne-based poet and architect, and a senior lecturer in architecture in the MSD. He has taught design at all levels in a number of different architecture courses, some of them in this Faculty. His creative work extends from poetry to drawings to books to objects and architecture, all at the experimental edges of each discipline. His most recent solo exhibition was LIMINAL House, before & after… held at the ALKF gallery in 2016. 4 (or5) kinds of IMAGE uses his research which culminated in his 2008 PhD: Sets, Series and Suites: designing the multiple artwork.

Schedule Tuesdays 15:15-18:15 in Room 141; Thursdays 14:15-17:15 in Room 236

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