Group Exhibit Brings Expression Alive Through Objects
2013-07-29
News
The final product of three expert-led workshops on modern design and visual communication were unveiled in a special student exhibition this past Saturday at Tumo.
Over 60 students who worked for over a month with experts in the cutting-edge fields of 3D modeling, product photography, and object historiography displayed their work for a capacity crowd of fellow students and guests.
“I believe that presenting stories through mediums such as objects or videos can often be more understandable and inclusive for people,” said Mariam Sukiasyan, a participant in the Houshamadyan Objects That Tell Stories workshop. Mariam presented a family heirloom from Erzerum as part of the project, which used various methods to visually retrace the life of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
The three separate workshops were led by such experts as Los Angeles-based designer and UCLA lecturer Narineh Mirzaeian, a distinguished brand photographer Hacob Khodaverdian, and Houshamadyan web project directors Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Vahe Tachjian, and Elke Hatmann.
From brining alive the Armenian Ottoman past, to professionally presenting products through photography, to designing futuristic 3D models, students succeeded in a short period of time to utilized modern methods of design and technology to convey narratives and visual expressions.