Summer Friday Lecture Series: Michael Rock, “A Brief History of the Screen”
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Friday, July 30
12-1PM
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Location
MFA Social Documentary Amphitheatre
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136 W 21st Street, 1st floor
New York City
About the Speaker
Michael Rock is a founding partner and creative director of multi-disciplinary design studio 2x4 Inc., New York City, and Director of the Graphic Architecture Project at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Since 1991 he has been a member of the design faculty at the Yale School of Art where he currently holds the rank of Professor (Adjunct). In addition he is a 2010/2011 visiting Professor of Practice at Tsinghua University in Beijing. At 2x4, he leads a wide range of projects, both cultural and commercial, for Nike, MTV, Prada, Vitra, Harvard Art Museum and CCTV. He holds an A.B. in Humanities (Literature) from Union College and a M.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design. He was the recipient of the 1999/2000 Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome and currently serves on the board of the Academy.
In 2005, the work of 2x4 was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the following year they received the National Design Award in Communication Design from the Smithsonian Institution, the highest design honor in the United States. In 2008, 2x4 was featured in a 12-month exhibition at the Architecture and Design galleries at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2009, a selection of projects opened at the Gyre Gallery in Tokyo. The catalogue/book from that exhibition, titled “it is what it is” was released in 2010. A new book of writing, Multiple Signatures is forthcoming.
