PROJECT ROOM A

Josef Astor’s THESIS CLASS

FEATURING WORK BY:

Alessandra Bonizzi, Rachel Dorrothy, Kat Franczak, Caroline Guercio, Yuxuan Hu, Xinyu Jiang, Russ Lahn, Qingqing Liu, Mary Malek, Rondell Romiel, dominique russo, Jonah Siegel, Yanran Wang, Aubrey Wipfli

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE:

Yuxuan Hu

Photography is there to be my second face and third eye. Objectivity of perception is disengaged, dropping its booster rocket as it travels through a convex lens towards the six complicated centimeters behind my eyes, and into my brain, where a data-moshing of the rational binary world morphs into individual and unique hallucinations, that reconfigure the tangible into the intangible. Where lies the truth when re-imagined memories cannot be trusted? Do primal things still exist in the world — our spirit, our civilization? Fourteen remote beings, together in isolation, represent a vast spectrum of unique visions that converge into a common thread, and produce work that is available and inevitable.

—Hybrid statement by Thesis Class Students and Josef Astor