Collaborative Exhibition by kyoto ddd gallery and Seian University of Art and Design

DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Kyoto Seian Gakuen, Seian University of Art and Design

Venue, Date and Time

【Date and Time】

November 13 (Mon.) – 28 (Tue.), 2017
Gallery hours: 11:00–19:00
*Open until 18:00 on Saturdays
Closed on Sundays and holidays
Admission free
kyoto ddd gallery
10 Uzumasakamikeibu-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 616-8533
TEL: 075-871-1480
FAX: 075-871-1267
※ no parking available

【Access】

3-minute walk from Exit 1 of Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station, Kyoto Subway Tozai Line;
5-minute walk from Randen-Tenjingawa Station, Randen Arashiyama Main Line;
by City Bus or Kyoto Bus, alight at Uzumasa Tenjingawa-ekimae;

【Event】

Opening Party
November 13 (Mon.), 2017, 17:00–19:00
Admission free, no reservation needed


party.communication
Planned and proposed as a setting for communication, bringing together exhibition visitors and artists. “party.communication” is a participative artwork in a party format.
Admission free, no reservation needed

November 18 (Sat.), 2017, 15:00–18:00
Taking the exhibitors’ hometown foods as a theme, a space will be created for dialog on the roots of the artists.

November 25 (Sat.), 2017, 15:00–18:00
With cooperation from the food catering service “VOLVER,” we will design and propose a space for food and communication.
VOLVER http://volver.jp

Exhibition

In partnership with the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, Seian University of Art and Design has held an exhibition based on a collaboration between 4th-year students, graduates, and faculty members from Seian University’s Graphic Design Course.

The exhibition is titled “.communication” (dot communication), and students, graduates, and faculty members will engage as equals on an exciting topic that students face in common: “communication gaps.” The participants will create and present works from various perspectives on this theme.
Recently, there has been a clamor about the problems of the “post-truth” society, and we hope you will eagerly anticipate the attempt by these young people to playfully reconceive—through design and expression—the optimal approach to communication and transmission of information.

Event Concept

Today, we can obtain huge volumes of information. We have learned that all sorts of people live in the various regions of the world, and that there is all sorts of corresponding information.
The information accessible is too vast, and there are limits on the amount of information a single human being can digest. It’s impossible to understand it all.

A certain piece of information is like a tree. To learn about it, some people reach for the leaves, while others reach for the branches and fruit.
Even though they all try to learn about the same tree, they touch different parts, and, in the end, there are differences in the amount and quality of what they obtain.
This is where the aforementioned “gaps” are generated.

People meet halfway to fill in those gaps, or recognize that such gaps exist.
We decided to acknowledge that this is the very essence of “communication.”

The “.communication” (dot communication) exhibition is an attempt to connect our perspectives of learning about communication and design with the “.” (dot), and to find—through the exhibited works—the various gaps between things, people, and circumstances.

Works

Composition of Exhibitors

Direction:
Faculty members of
Seian University of Art and Design

OKUSA Mayumi
MASHIMO Takehisa
MINAMI Takuya
Exhibitors:
4th-year students
in Graphic Design Course,
Media Design Department,
Faculty of Art,
Seian University of Art and Design

ITO Yurika
INAGAKI Natsuki
IMAGAWA Yumi
ODA Mao
KISHI Hitomi
TOKUDA Chinatsu
NAKAMURA Rina
NAGAKURA Shiori
NAGAHARA Rina
NISHIO Koki
HASEGAWA Ruka
HIROTA Naoyuki
FUKUSHIMA Ayako
FURUYA Maiko
MIZUMOTO Ayumi
MURAKAMI Maki

Collaborators:
Graduates of Seian University of
Art and Design

ASANO Takeshi
OKAZAWA Rina
KISHIMOTO Rinko
SHIOTANI Keigo
SUZUKI Hiroyoshi
TERADA Shunji
TOYAMA Hiroshi


3rd-year students
in Graphic Design Course,
Media Design Department,
Faculty of Art,
Seian University of Art and Design

OKADA Takumi


Advisor:
FUJITA Takashi



Sponsored by:
DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Kyoto Seian Gakuen,
Seian University of Art and Design


Web design:
ODA Mao
NAKAMURA Rina
MURAKAMI Maki