JEN AGOSTA UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DESIGNER JUNE Los Angeles, California PRINT | INTERACTIVE | TANGIBLE | SOUND 2018 B.A
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EDUCATION JEN AGOSTA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DESIGNER JUNE Los Angeles, California PRINT | INTERACTIVE | TANGIBLE | SOUND 2018 B.A. in Design Media Arts (DMA), GPA: 3.793 1225 BOSTON STREET #205 LOS ANGELES, CA 90026 AWARDS AND HONORS 503.734.8104 | [email protected] UCLA DMA Undergraduate Exhibition, Award of Highest Distinction, 2018 WWW.JENAGOSTA.COM | INSTA: @JENAGOSTA Anderson Ranch Arts Center Brooks Fellowship, 2018 Tina and Martin Sarafa Scholarship, 2017 GROUP EXHIBITIONS UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2018 ABOUT ME Hammer Museum, UCLA Game Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Ars Electronica, Linz Austria, 2017 I found graphic design, photography and visual communication Various national musical performances, 2010 - 2015 through music. A native of the Pacific Northwest, I immersed myself in Portland, Oregon’s rich music culture, cutting my teeth as an electronic music artist while honing my skills as a designer to RELATED WORK support the branding of my musical arts. From there, my love for visual design and communication quickly flourished, leading me to 3D TANGIBLE DESIGN + FABRICATION take on several freelance clients who were small businesses and 2017 UCLA Game Lab, Los Angeles, CA independent artists. Deciding to take a more serious step toward - 2018 The Game Lab has invited me to work on various projects including design being a designer, I relocated to Los Angeles in 2014 to finish my and fabrication of vintage arcade-style game consoles for museum undergraduate degree in Design and Media Arts at UCLA and exhibitions including the Game Arts Festival at the Hammer Museum, Los immerse myself the vibrant world of design and contemporary art Angeles, 2017, and the Victoria Albert Museum, London, 2018 (forthcoming). in Los Angeles. The only thing I miss more than Portland’s coffee is its rain. However, it is no match for LA’s lively contemporary art WEB DEVELOPMENT, GRAPHIC DESIGN scene and numerous tiny dog sightings. 2010 The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company, Portland, OR - 2018 Adapting their existing brand identity to various packaging and marketing materials, The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company has been one of my longest PERSONAL SKILLS running freelance clients. We just launched a new e-commerce website as they head into their thirteenth year of business. • ••• Publication Layout • ••• Graphic Design GRAPHIC DESIGN • ••• Web Design + Development 2015 Michigan Public Radio, Ann Arbor, MI • ••• Typography - 2016 Various graphic design projects closely following the National Public Radio • •• Photography design identity guidelines. • •• Sound Design • ••• Music composition + motion picture scoring 2015 Girls Rock Camp Foundation • ••• Editing sound, video and music I was invited to do post production to recreate eight iconic record covers of the foundations choosing replacing the photographs of the original artists with photographs of girls. The project, titled Record Covers Reimagined, was SOFTWARE SKILLS a fundraiser for the Girls Rock Camp Foundation which provides grants to various Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls organizations nationally. The reimagined DESIGN record covers and fundraiser were featured in several magazines including • ••• Illustrator Rolling Stone, Spin, Essence, and Pitchfork. • ••• InDesign • ••• Photoshop MUSICAL SCORE • • Maya 2014 The Night Is Ours, Directed by Aubree Bernier-Clarke, Produced through the Directing Workshop for Women, American Film Institute WEB Having previously collaborated on other projects and being an avid fan of • ••• HTML my music, Aubree invited me to produce a score for her 15-minute short film. • ••• CSS Under her direction, I crafted a dark and moody musical score, creating the • • p5.js sonic foundation of this short, fantasy, coming-of-age film which debuted at • Javascript the Directors Guild of America in 2014. SOUND SELECTED PROJECTS • ••• Logic • •• Cubase BOOKS • •• ProTools 2017 Meet Me There • ••• Reason Research, photography, writing, layout, and typography for the 168-page • • Ableton Live monograph featuring 61 photographs and 8 illustrated neighborhood maps connecting the history of the extinct Los Angeles Railway to the remaining MOTION stairs-streets laced through the hills of Echo Park and Silver Lake in Los • •• Premiere Pro Angeles, California, illustrating the story of Angelenos lost pedestrian travel. • • After Effects MUSIC WRITING, PRODUCTION, BRANDING OFFICE 2010 Jager • ••• Word -2018 Since 2010, I have written, produced and performed electronic music under • ••• Excel the moniker Jager, releasing two full-length records - Polygon, 2011, and • •• PowerPoint Night Driver, 2015 - in addition to a handful of remixes. RHAPSODY of RAPTURE RECKONING and RELEASE Senior thesis, 2018 Two mutoscopes, 1200 frames each. Four cyanotype prints One book of photos and essays. Limited edition flip-books for gallery visitors. While many things in our lives are much like a song - following predictable patterns with varied repetition and the occasional surprise or climax - the act of letting go is more like a rhapsody. The piece of music that takes you on a journey from one end to the other without repetition or reliance of a return to familiarity bears an uncanny resemblance to the journey through the unknown when we reach a point of necessity to release what binds us, whether we want to or not. Rhapsody of Rapture, Reckoning and Release is an observation of letting go through observation of a Peace Lily dying over the course of 30 days. Captured in time lapse photography, the images will be reassembled into a mutoscope in which viewers must turn the crank to watch the plant dying. The act of peering inside the box along with cranking the handle are important aspects of this experience. The viewer is participating in the process by turning the crank to animate the motion. The privacy of the experience by peering into the box through the eye hole keeps the secret between the viewer and the plant as the viewer is actively participating in the slow extermination of the plant. In addition to the mutoscope, a series of prints cyanotype prints will capture intimate details of the Lily’s withering process, displayed in a deep blue hue to match the mood. A collection of images and writings will also be collected in a book detailing the journey. JEN AGOSTA, 2018 [email protected] 503-723-8104 RHAPSODY of RAPTURE RECKONING and RELEASE The process of a process Observation of letting go in 30 days Light study JEN AGOSTA, 2018 [email protected] 503-723-8104 MAPPLETHORPE: DESCRIPTIVE + DISCURSIVE + REFERENTIAL DESCRIPTIVE + DISCURSIVE MAPPLETHORPE: TYPYOGRAPHIC MAPPLETHORPE: DISCURSIVE+ REFERENTIAL TYPYOGRAPHIC MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE a a s a a s mimicking like a IF A PICTURE A muscular This expression woman’s leg of gender non- extends into conformity the air with has long been confidence. We displayed in art see the leg from and fashion, some- the lapel message toe to thigh like times in authenticity a barefoot, upside and sometimes in chic down ballet dancer mimicry. Artists such as with a relaxed point. Romaine Brooks - whose The opposite leg is bent portraits in the early at the knee and the two 1900’s focused her eye thighs are pressed firmly on the people close to her – together in PAINTSan erect pose captured in oil paint laid of a men’s in a bottle, reminiscent of a 1950’s carefully on a stretched canvas Betty Page pinup. The flesh of VICTORIOUS, UNAPOLOGETIC the reality that gender non- the bare legs is smooth and tan, conformity has been expressed dramatically reflecting bright long before it was fashionable light shining from the right, casting or safe. Like Mapplethorpe’s own a dark shadow on the backside of controversial image subjects, Brooks’ the legs. The leg extends up between paintings were a message in a bottle two dark, charcoal colored right delivered to future generations, triangles mirrored on each side of preserving the history of the sexually, the photograph, creating a third socially and gender non-conforming. DUO DUO ONE, upside-down, white acute triangle in the Romaine Brooks herself was a lesbian ONE, negative space between. This composition and is best known for her portraits of of black and white background triangles women masculine and androgynous women. creates a provocativeA letter “V” spanning the THOUSANDHer 1925 portrait Peter, a portrait WE WILL PERSEVERE entire background of the picture frame. The of a young English girl shows us a moody and suit jacket, captured in two mirrored, black right triangles have a subtly respectful painting of a person who, without darker black strip running along the inner edge the painting’s title, would be assumed to be of their longest angle transforming the appearance a young man by the presentation of hair of a background of monochromatic geometric shapes and clothing. The name Peter also brings into a composition mimicking the lapel of a men’s into question how the young English girl suit jacket with a white shirt underneath. The leg could identified her gender, or if that was even be comparable in positioning and proportion to even a question one asked them- a long suit tie. Mapplethorpe’s 1981 Lisa Lyon is part selves in 1925. After all, questioning silver gelatin of a series that deliberately questions gender and expands the terms “transsexual” the possibility of androgyny what is often considered and “transgender” were not coined gender-ambiguous and often sexless, to being until decades after this painting hyper-sexualized, hyper-sensualized, and boasting – 1945 and 1965 respectively. the robust qualities of both male and female sexes, As fashion is often inspired by as opposed to a reduction of features from each. lifestyles deemed “fringe” or Bodybuilder WORDSLisa Lyon thought of herself as “edgy,” masculine fashion an artist and sculptor – a body sculptor. Her on women is no exception JEN AGOSTA the performance on paper, body was her artwork, and together, she and to this trend. Whether the Mapplethorpe crafted a series of images that inspiration comes from put in deliberate juxtaposition the concept of men’s fashion or queer the masculine nested within the feminine and fashion, there is celebrated their synthesis within one person.