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Venue
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Southern Exposure
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Show
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Byproduct: Deviations from Design
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Location
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San Francisco, California
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Date
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August, 2001
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Materials
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prints on film
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Dimensions
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3'x7'
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Description
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The Dept. of Shape Research was invited back to Southern Exposure to participate in a show curated by Stephanie Syjuco and Neil Grimmer. The Dept. complied with this request, and supplied 5 posters illustrating 5 new or familiar lines.
The Dept. of Shape Research, founded in 1995 in Oakland, CA, has been chartered with the research, development, synthesis, and categorization of unique, original and in many cases entirely new shapes. Occasionally, through its outreach program, the Dept. makes limited numbers of its shapes available to the public-at-large. Its engineers are currently developing a state-of-the-art digital repository to house these legacy shapes as well as the many hundreds of embryonic shapes discovered and/or developed yearly. Privately owned and funded, but with a determined, philanthropic mission, the Dept. of Shape Research holds itself, whenever possible, to the highest professional, ethical and scientific standards, during the course of its manifold activities.
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Metaproject
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The Dept. of Shape Research
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Website
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www.dsr.org
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Genres
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Conceptual Art
Visual Art
Superfiction
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Themes
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Absurdity
Biology
Bureaucracy
Categorization
Farce
Iconography
Information Design
Systems
Typology
Variation
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