(L-R) Top: One of installations during Grad Show, Serafina Yu, Bottom: Yuwan Chen, and Jiayu Liu (Photos – Garrett Rowlan)
With its 307 graduates in well over two dozen disciplines, the 2023 ArtCenter Grad Show presented a curated vision of future shock.
By Garrett Rowlan
Music, lights, and the glow of orange balls simmered inside the Pasadena Convention Center. Black walls divided the various disciplines. Bodies passed in eddies of conversation. The atmosphere was one of possibilities as if to say the future is here or will be shortly.
The sense of an international radiance prevailed, since the graduates are part of a post-Covid platform of dispersed presentation. Companies like Google and Nissan have already plucked ArtCenter students for employment. Resumes and virtual calling cards, come with a sensibility to produce change as much as a product.
The vast array of presentations is impossible to summarize, but her are a few examples.
Serafina Yu works through design and wants to ensure ethical standards by understanding both users and markers.
Jiayu Liu notes that the trucking industry faces challenges for drivers and emission concerns, and seeks to create an intricate web of relationships.
Yuyan Chen wants to create AI designs that will alter facial recognition in virtual interface meetings so that users on either end can put their best face forward.
All in all, the somewhat mind-blowing and mind-saturating Grad Show was needed multiple viewings. Even two didn’t quite do it.
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