EXHIBITION DATES: Feb 29th, 2012 to March 25th, 2012 at ARC Gallery,Chicago,IL.

Opening Date: March 2nd, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm at ARC Gallery,Chicago,IL.

ARTIST STATEMENT

TYPE+CODE II is a collection of my visual research for typographies generated by computer codes with an emphasis of Processing developed by Casey Reas and Ben Fray. Initially it began with my MFA thesis, TYPE+CODE, at Maryland Institute College of Art, in 2007, and then, it has extended to my lifetime research project since I graduated. Through TYPE+CODE II, I am experimenting with traditional and cultural oriented calligraphy to reinterpret into modern and contemporary typography with the codes. I use letter forms,words phrases, and sentences to explore innovative typographic forms with basic visual elements. They convey diversified visual messages inspired by nature, addressing environmental issues such as Green design, healing through Arts, exploring philosophical and religious interpretation regarding life, death and love.

TECHNICAL REFERENCES:

Processing, created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas
Binary Tree Algorithms
L-System algorithms
Geomerative Library and Caligraft(http://www.caligraft.com,) created by Richard Marxer
Fonts: Arial, Times, Heveltica, Stanford

For more detail information including title, year, dimension,medium, credits, please click to WORK LISTS FOR TYPE+CODEII, which will be updated by Feb 28th, 2012.

PRESENTED, EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED THROUGH:

2011 "WORDS&NUMBERS:National Juried exhibition," Union Street Gallery, Chicago Height, IL
2010 "WORDPLAY," New York Times Magazine Gallery, NYC, NY
2010 Featured as cover artist for Letter Arts Review magazine
2009 "Dimension and Typography," named "Top 5 Design Show" of 2009 by Newcity Art Chicago ISpace Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Designed letters of the Annual "Year in Ideas" Issue for The New York Times Magazine
2007 Presented TYPE+CODE at AIGA Design Educators Conference 2008:Massaging Media 2: TYPE+CODE ,Boston
2007 Graphics for Graphic Design: the New Basics, by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, published by Princeton Architectural Press
2006 Presented "the Power of Processing," at AIGA Conference 2007 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

TYPE+CODE Version1.0 :http://www.yeoahn.com/typecode1

If you would have questions regarding my exhibition, TYPE+CODE II, please contact me yeoahn@gmail.com, 703-475-6291, or you can visit the website: http://www.yeoahn.com.