A digital art project worth writing about
Graphic artist (and mate of BST) Jeremy Hutchison has a new exhibition as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s Digital Artist in Residence.
‘we are multicolored’ invites people to explore national identity in a playful way, dismantling national flags and reassembling them into a personal flag. “Highly complex ideologies, histories and national identities are embedded in the rigid shapes, forms, and colors of a nation’s flag,” Jeremy says. “This project should prompt people to ask important questions about the array of cultures to which they belong, hopefully provoking recognition that we are all products of hybrid cultural identities.”
Personal flags are added to a “superflag,” a constantly shifting collection of shapes and colors made of all the flags created through the site. Each time the superflag is viewed, it will take a new form, reshuffling the arrangement of visual material across the screen. Users can click on any single flag to learn about the individual it represents. Visitors to the site can also learn about the meanings of colours and symbols on various national flags, offering an insight into societies around the world. Jeremy collaborated with programmer Matthew Brown and Pentagram designer Joe Marianek in the creation of the work.
Jeremy, along with Nellie Perera, arts and education program manager at Henry Street Settlement, has also been running a series of workshops centred around ‘we are multicolored’, encouraging students to ask questions about what colors and shapes mean in different nations and how national identity is created.
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