ABOUT
Tore Terrasi is an intermedia artist and designer residing in the Metro-Boston area, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Studio Foundation area at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. After earning BFA degrees in Visual Design and English he received his MFA in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He has also held positions at Lasell University and the University of Texas at Arlington.
OVERVIEW
The constant interplay between words and images has yielded especially fertile ground for Terrasi's research and serves as the common thread connecting all his creative activity. His ambitions as a communicator are to reconsider the conventions through which we experience texts and images by way of exploring the simultaneously independent and interdependent nature of their relationship.
His work is conceptually rooted by the phrase ‘visual language’ and technically rooted by some mechanism of time-based media. Through this word, image, temporal interplay his work facilitates a synthesis between a verbal and visual experience. At this intersection, the material concerns of the physical world and the computational processes of digital media work in concert.
Terrasi's approach looks to both de-familiarize our experiences with words, images, design, materials, media, and dimension, (while playing against the familiarity of those very things) and open a plurality of meaning and interpretation. As such, he freely shifts between static and dynamic media, art and design.