Remix Books: After Shinro Ohtake

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Remix Books: After Shinro Ohtake
Junior Design Studio

This exhibition presents student works that challenge and transform existing printed books through acts of remix, reconfiguration, and editorial intervention. Engaging deeply with their chosen source materials, students dissected both form and content—rearranging text, altering visuals, and reshaping structures—to create entirely new works that exist in dialogue with the originals.
Following Shinro Ohtake’s Roadside Japan Remix, in which the artist obsessively collects and recombines found printed matter into new, layered compositions, this project embraces a similar spirit of excavation and reinvention. Each book on display reflects a distinct approach to remixing: some function as critical responses, others as poetic reinterpretations, while some radically reimagine the material’s visual and narrative logic. These transformations demonstrate how meaning is shaped not only by words and images but by sequence, format, and materiality itself.
By placing these reimagined books alongside their sources, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how printed matter can be a site of conversation, critique, and reinvention—where past and present, original and remix, continuously inform one another.
Participating students:
Zoe Beardsley, Alden Cronin, Nick DeRado, Maria Graziano, Hannah Howe, Jae Lee, Jemma Lindquist,
Juliet Lyons, Aurora Prescott, Arietta Scozzari, Samara Skidmore, Rebecca Zhang, Wyatt Zindle