Jeremy Mende

Jeremy Mende

Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize
September 6, 2010–March 7, 2011
Profession
Principal, MendeDesign, San Francisco
Project title
Anxious Futurism: A Visual Poetics of Our Schizophrenic Lean into Tomorrow
Project description

I will research the communicative techniques of classical Futurism in order to create a new visual language that will express our frenetic, ambivalent lean into our future. This body of work will engage the Futurists’ techniques of simultaneità, onomatopoeia, and synesthetic form, but will replace the original character of Futurism with that of our time. The final result will be a series of graphic prints and an animated film that “enact” our contemporary atmosphere of anxiety toward connectivity, intimacy, speed, and power.