Mapping Time Exhibition - a Decade of Artwork
“Mapping Time”, an archival exhibition, presents more than 87 art projects in drawing, digital print, video, and installation art, produced over the last ten years by students from AUC’s Visual Arts Program. The work is a part of their final project for the course currently titled as “Advanced Studio II”. The exhibition includes projects that have also been shown by students as their graduation projects, along with new projects that have been produced for the purpose of this exhibition. The educational project is designed and supervised by Dr. Shady ElNoshokaty.
The project is structured around two main phases, the first focusing on the archival process as a process of thinking, research, and positioning time within human consciousness; the second focusing on the study and practice of virtual mapping structures to produce an artwork that investigates the conceptual ideas of art. Placing a heavy emphasis on understanding creativity as an exercise of thought and imagination, the project was designed to create an educational experience that aims at bridging conceptual art practice and art education, in an attempt to establish a direct connection between experimental/conceptual research and art education as an intuitive experience.
“The project was designed to create an educational experience that establishes a direct connection between experimental research and art education,” Elnoshokaty wrote. “This individual and collective undertaking results in an experience that is both profound and extensive for the group at large.”
