Messages and Means: Muriel Cooper at MIT

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Messages and Means: Muriel Cooper at MIT

February 25-March 28, 2014
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery
Columbia University
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm

Muriel Cooper worked across four decades at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology in overlapping roles as a graphic designer, teacher, and 
researcher. Spanning the transition from print, to early explorations of 
digital typography, to fully evolved information environments, Cooper's 
tenure at MIT maps onto one of the most dynamic periods of the school's 
technical, conceptual and theoretical development.

As the first Design Director of the MIT Press, Cooper established a 
comprehensive publishing program and designed books like The Bauhaus 
(1969) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972). As co-founder of the Visible 
Language Workshop, she taught experimental printing, tested large-format 
Polaroid photography, and integrated video systems in MITs Department of 
Architecture. And at the MIT Media Lab, she developed some of the earliest 
computer interfaces and educated a generation of designers. Throughout, 
her approach remained consistent: creating tools and systems for rapid 
feedback, dissolving boundaries between design and production, and 
restlessly seeking out new problems.

There is still no magic way -- but we propose to keep working at it.

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Organized by David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger with Mark Wasiuta

Opening and discussion *next* Tuesday, February 25, 2014
7 pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University
http://goo.gl/maps/6SDkx
with

Roger Conover, MIT Press
Ron MacNeil, MIT Visible Language Workshop
Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
David Reinfurt, Princeton University
Lisa Strausfeld, Bloomberg
Mark Wasiuta, Columbia University GSAPP
Robert Wiesenberger, Columbia University Art History

http://www.arthurrossarchitecturegallery.org
http://www.messagesandmeans.com

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