Visual Systems


Polyphonic
Yunxi (Lucy) Ye (MFA ‘26)
Spring 2025

Project: Multilingual Systems
Students imagine a language system that functions as a multilingual form understood by two or more language audiences and develop a system integrating English with another language, considering aesthetic and functional elements while fostering cross-cultural understanding.

Photosynthesizing
Sheryl Peng (BFA ‘25)
Spring 2025

Project: Performative Bodies
Students design a spatial program that invites audiences to learn about an overlooked topic through embodied participation, creating a performative system guided by a score or set of instructions and informed by participatory, conditional, and performative design strategies. 
Hearing Visualizations through Classical Music
Qingyang (Helen) Liu (MFA ‘26)
Spring 2025

Project: Translation for the Senses
Students identify an inherently non-visual system that engages the senses, translate it into graphic form using a self-defined set of rules, and implement the visual system into an experiential medium of their choice.
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