Tore Terrasi

Tore Terrasi is an intermedia artist and designer residing in the Metro-Boston area. He is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Foundation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.


Typography
Lines
Archival Forms
Timescapes





toreterrasi@gmail.com

Archival Forms

In many regards Grid Studies examines an outdated visual system of organizing and cataloging information while suggesting the abundance of knowledge available today. In other regards the work explores the nature or essence of grids, regardless of the information it contains. Since the text on the outdated media is too small for the audience to read, other characteristics come forward; the patterns, the organization of space, the light and dark areas overlapping each other. The work is playful in that the audience knows there are words, but understand they are not meant for a traditional reading in this context. The construction of work is also playful. We ‘weave’ our words. In some of these works the term is taken literally as long pieces of microfilm are woven in and out of each other creating a micro-chip like image. In addition to technological evolution the work can’t help but also allude to agriculture, architecture, and language.

Working with old media, through weaving or layering, re-activates the once discarded, transforming one form of information into another.