We got busy immediately, installing plaques and posters with a laser level, finding saw horses, and assembling an ad hoc table for the books:

Collecting texts from everyone, writing some new texts, typesetting, (proofreading?), editing, and designing an exhibition booklet:

Naming the show, giving it a visual vocabulary, and designing a poster (well several different posters):

Didactic Distorted was conceived, produced, and installed in less than three hours through the collective work of all 11 of you working together. The exhibition assembles class work over the course of the semester in a small basement gallery space at 185 Nassau, conveniently located behind a door tucked under a staircase previously marked NOT AN EXIT and now signed by an exhibition poster and directional arrow, down a flight of stairs, through another door, and down a small hallway. The show includes book covers (Assignment #1), posters (Assignment #2), and interstellar space plaques (Assignment #3). It is remarkably dense, rather abstract, and assertively black and white. It looks fantastic. 

But your work cannot be contained by this basement gallery space. These graphics are meant to circulate, whether (hypothetically) as alternate book covers for The Information, as posters that collect found and Turbo-scanned language fragments, or on space plaques bound for interstellar, extra-terrestrial recipients. In fact, even the posters you designed for this show have escaped the basement and are out there, across campus on bulletin boards and less-authorized locations, doing their mostly-silent work of announcing this exhibition and possibly motivating a curious reader to visit.

Didactic Distorted is now *open* and will remain so for one month:

April 28 – May 25, 2026

Continues elsewhere . . .