Halftone Dissonance
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This thesis aims to induce a public conversation in the public sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic public health policies and social isolation altered the way people interact, while consumer culture has increased and shifted. We are continuously exposed to massive amounts of information that can be easily manipulated.
Our thesis installation presents critical figures that can transform our day-to-day life; however, it is up to the viewer on which portrait they align with. As designers, we want to expose two opposing points of view on a controversial topic and bring it to the public sphere following Chantal Mouffeís writings in Art as an Agnostic Intervention in Public Space1, in which public spaces are always plural.
Our installation is an intervention in a pluralistic public space. Rather than an agnostic approach, our project translates controversial topics into complex geometry. The goal is to identify a problem and situate our specific intervention to address that issue. The medium is an installation that was created with rigorous amounts of digital manipulation through the 3D plane and CNCing production methods.
The two sides of the board juxtapose Governer Kochul and the real estate mogul Stephen M. Ross and their stances on the 421A Tax Abatement law about the post-pandemic world, where the socioeconomic disparity also refers to the post-pandemic world is accelerated at an unprecedented pace (source: IMF). Our intervention aims to enact a public conversation and inform the public about the 421A policy. We let the viewers of our project decide which side they are supporting through the daytime and nighttime readings. During the day, the installation will reveal itself as an obscured image of Governer Kochul, while the nighttime reading will reveal an obscured image of Stephen M. Ross. An informative and interactive website accompanies the installation.
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Zhang, Zhi Yuan
