name

Yeju Choi (yejuchoi)

country

united states

university

Yale University School of Art

department

Graphic Design

university address

1156 Chapel St
06511 New Haven

university country

united states

url

http://www.art.yale.edu

id

0010125

title

Poster Machine (Homage to Yves Klein's Anthropometry series)

professor(s)

Roel Wouters

rank

522

tags

multimedia poster design

year of making

2009

uploaded

2010-02-16 18:42:03

For a workshop to create any kind of poster-generating machine, I decided to use living creatures to make a poster, inspired by Yve Klein's Anthropometry series.

While Klein employed and directed human models to make imprints of their bodies on a large canvas, I let hundreds of fruit flies make imprints of their tiny bodies on a tiny piece of paper. Since I couldn't really direct the flies, I anesthetized them with carbon dioxide and placed them on a puddle of watercolor paint. As they woke up and tried to escape from the watercolor ocean and dry their wings and legs, they made traces and imprints.
As I resized the tiny original posters into huge posters, the imprints became something unfamiliar and unexpected.