These are exhibition materials for the show Words Fail Me at MOCAD. The exhibit was curated by Matthew Higgs who picked work that dealt somehow with the failures of language. I decided that for the print materials it made some sense to make things that dealt with the language of printer failures, so I forced some files through my printer that I knew it wouldn't be able to print. Instead it generated those universal 'print failure' ASCII characters, and I used those as kind of 'decorative' elements on the print design. Pictured from top to bottom: MOCAD's garage door from the outside, MOCAD's garage door from the inside (photo by the Detroit Free Press), the entrance to the show, detail of a wall label, the gallery guide and invitation that went in the mail, detail of the gallery guide, and a detail of the printer errors at the top of the gallery guide (back) and the invitation (front). They were both supposed to look something like the printer errors at the top of the invitation (a series of different characters), but when I got the job back from press, the 'printer errors' printed as real printer errors. I.e., the ASCII characters were replaced by boxes with Xs in them. The print representative was really apologetic but we decided it was ok, I mean, in a way it was kind of ideal. (2007) |
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