{"id":10441,"date":"2026-02-12T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:32:36","slug":"a-simultaneity-mark-mfa-design-thesis-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"A SIMULTANEITY MARK: MFA Design Thesis Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reception: Feb 12, 6\u20139 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On view: Feb 12 \u2013 Feb 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second part of A<\/em> Simultaneity Mark<\/em> opened with a packed and animated reception, bringing together faculty, students, and visitors from across the Mason Gross community. The galleries carried a steady flow of conversations, with design and visual art audiences naturally overlapping throughout the evening. The event felt lively, social, and deeply engaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each room constructed a different mode of experience. Chiyu Zheng\u2019s interactive installation Gestic<\/em> transformed subtle human hand movements into responsive texts, encouraging viewers to become aware of their own gestures and presence. Sabre<\/em> introduced a shift in tempo, where Mahsa Masoumi\u2019s work centered on duration, narrative, and repetition, drawing visitors into a slower, more reflective encounter shaped by image, sound, and pattern. Yuxuan Hu\u2019s installations explored language perception and memory through generative imagery, producing visuals that appeared and dissolved in response to sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the design spaces, surrounding rooms of the gallery presented visual art works, creating a broader exhibition context and reinforcing the interdisciplinary atmosphere of the night. The exhibition remained open to the public through February 28, extending the reception\u2019s energy into an ongoing viewing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chiyu Zheng<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

GESTIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Material: Media Installation, TouchDesigner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gestic translates everyday human gestures into live visual responses. Movement becomes a quiet language shaped by habit, culture, and presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SABR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Material: Video with audio, latch-hook weaving<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabr<\/em> means patience. The work unfolds the traditional Persian story of Zaal and Simorgh through image, sound, pattern, and repetition, inviting viewers to linger with care, endurance, and time.
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Yuxuan Hu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What I See When You Are Silent<\/strong>, and How Your Memory Finds Its Form <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

material: Installation, TouchDesigner, Python<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project responds to sound by generating images that appear, linger, and fade. The work reflects on memory as something that remains, even after the digital form disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reception: Feb 12, 6\u20139 pm On view: Feb 12 \u2013 Feb 28 The second part of A Simultaneity Mark opened with a packed and animated reception, bringing together faculty, students, and visitors from across the Mason Gross community. The galleries carried a steady flow of conversations, with design and visual art audiences naturally overlapping throughout … Read moreA SIMULTANEITY MARK: MFA Design Thesis Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10501,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}