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Pablo R Garcia

Associate Professor

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Associate Professor, Department of Contemporary Practices; Director, Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research + Collaboration (2017-2019); Chair, Faculty Contract and Tenure Review Board (2021-2024).

Education: B.Arch, Cornell University (1998); M.Arch, Princeton University (2003). 

Bibliography: Tracing the Line - The Art of Drawing Machines and Pen Plotters, Vetro Editions; Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire, Intellect Books; Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena, Birkhauser Architecture; L'art au-delà du digital, Nouvelles éditions Scala; Academic Writing: Concepts and Connections, Oxford University Press; XXL - XS: New Directions in Ecological Design, DAP; Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, De Gruyter. 

Press/Reviews/Interviews: Art in America, Leonardo, Colossal, Mashable, Hyperallergic, Fast Company, WIRED, WIRED Design, WIRED Japan, WIRED Gadgetlab, WIRED UK, Dezeen, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Form Magazine, Core77, Artinfo, Neon Magazine, Tested, Trendhunter, Martha Stewart, The Creators Project, Engadget, Physics World, Chicago Reader, Better Living Through Design, The Journal of Natural Scientific Illustration, Motherboard, The Daily Mail, Pittsburgh Tribune, La Repubblica, Libération, The Architect's Newspaper, Gizmodo, The Daily Dot, OMNI, Chicago Tribune, Neural Magazine. 

Collections: American Philosophical Society, Drawing Matter Trust (UK), Musée d'Art et Histoire (Geneva), National Media Museum (UK), Polytechnic Museum (Moscow), Princeton University Special Collections, The Science Museum (UK), Yale Center for British Art. 

Lectures and Workshops: TEDx Vienna, MakerFaire San Francisco; Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China; RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; MIT, Cambridge, MA; Columbia University, New York, NY; FH Joanneum University of Applied Arts, Graz, Austria; Carleton College, Carleton, MN; Strelka Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; OFFF Festival, Barcelona, Spain; KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium; Resonate Festival, Belgrade, Serbia; Gray Area Festival, San Francisco; XOXO Festival, Portland, OR; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO; Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia; The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Oak Park, Illinois; American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA. 

Awards: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Fulbright Distinguished Scholar (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia); Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, UK; Core77 International Design Award. 

Exhibitions: The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Musée d'Art et Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland; The Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea; Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia; iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, Brussels, Belgium; Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, Edinburgh, UK; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah; 44th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Festival Bouillants, Rennes, France; Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY; Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.

Courses

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Description

In this course we will focus on disciplinary and interdisciplinary art and design practices of contemporary art production. This team-taught, year-long class explores the materials and techniques of surface, space, and time (2D, 3D, and 4D), as well as the connections and interplay of these areas. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, traditional with the contemporary, and makes visible a variety of approaches in current cultural production in order to foster the development of students? emerging practices as makers and thinkers.

In this interdisciplinary studio course students will be authorized to use a variety of school shops, materials and equipment; including the woodshop, plaster studio, digital lab, sewing machine, hand tools, sound and video production, digital workflows and principles of visual fundamentals. This is a hands-on making class, faculty present artists and content related to a particular toolkit and, or project theme. Every section of Core Studio has shared learning outcomes which are uniquely realized by each Core faculty partnership.

Students should expect a fast-paced studio environment. In Core Studio students will complete short assignments as well as longer multi-week projects. Assignments are designed to help students develop their own ideas in relation to the materials, processes, and themes presented by faculty.

Class Number

1203

Credits

3

Description

This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

Class Number

1224

Credits

3