SYMBIOSIS
Second Installment of HY/SY/SYN Exhibition
Stills captured from the film, HY/SY/SYN: The Graphic Designer is a 21st Century Architect
(voiceover)
Symbiosis is a mutation that occurs as the result of a partnership. The forms are now integrated further, in an interlocked state, and can no longer operate independently from one another though their origins are still determinable. In its symbiotic state with architecture, graphic design is the formal equivalent of what is termed “transhuman”, an intermediary state between human and posthuman. For example, an amputee has a symbiotic relationship between his/her body and any number of prosthetic devices. The person may not be able to walk without the false leg, and the leg is virtually useless unless it is attached to the body of someone who needs to walk. Any snapshot of Times Square reveals a kind of symbiotic relationship that graphic design has with architecture, where graphic design operates as architecture’s prosthetic device, structurally interlocked with one another performing a function that the other cannot produce alone.
