Date of Award
Spring 5-31-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Kathy Wu
Second Advisor
James Goggin
Third Advisor
Alicia Cheng
Abstract
In a world increasingly threatened with dis- and misinformation, far-right nationalisms, geopolitical violence and conflicts, I am interested in graphic design as a tool for investigation and interactive storytelling.
To investigate is to track a movement, to untangle a situation, to search for the roots of an incident. In adopting the posture of the researcher, the journalist, or the pedestrian observer, I engage in the work of collecting vantage points: data, records, images, from academic papers to personal anecdotes. I position them in larger sociopolitical contexts, making visible how they might all fit together. Who holds the power of narration? Who is pushed to reside in the margins? Zoom in, zoom out; I reconfigure the fragments to tell a new story.
The world around us is one in constant expansion. This thesis is a reminder to be in the perpetual motion of searching rather than knowing; this way, I can start to see the cracks and gaps within. I hold my gaze —
Recommended Citation
Zhou, Tina, "Modes of Seeing, Means of Telling" (2025). Masters Theses. 1419.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1419
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