“As a way to tell the distinctive story of MICA’s creative ecosystem, we teamed with the internationally renowned design firm karlssonwilker to do something different in a way that truly captured the heartbeat of our community. Working with students in the course Interactive Spaces, karlssonwilker devised the idea of tracking a variety of data—from sound to motion to mood—using stationary and pop-up interactive sensor stations located throughout MICA’s campus. These student-created and run stations captured moments of activity, rest, and transition over the course of two weeks. The stations produced a constant flow of information that was processed and rendered in real time to create a visual narrative of our community. The result was 68,000 composite renderings that each capture a single moment in time on our campus. The covers of our undergraduate viewbooks are made up of one of these images—and because the cover of each book we produced uses a different image, the one you hold right now is one-of-a-kind. It is a glimpse into MICA unique only to you.”

MICA Viewbook, 2019