Tailoring Form: Closing Reception (Thursday, March 3 at 7pm)

As a mediating device, templates negotiate between conception (drawing) and production (artifact), between data and graphic. As a technological device, templates translate form, as well as information, from one medium to another for the purposes of fabrication, organization, and visualization. The templates in Tailoring Form, culled from a range of industries and professions – shipbuilding, automobile design, navigation, architecture, and fashion – register shifts in the standardization of production and representation. In this context, Tailoring Form posits the template as a facilitating technology in a history of mechanization. About Fizer Forley Fizer Forley is a research and design office in New York City. Fizer Forley’s exhibited research exploring the production of architectural and cultural artifacts has included: “Tailoring Form: a brief look at the history of the template”; “Artificial Memory,” a survey of memory devices; “The Democratic Monument in America 1900-2000,” with Richard M. Sommer; and “Opening the Oval,” a timeline history of the interior of the White House, Washington, D. C. Natalie Fizer and Glenn Forley teach in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons the New School for Design.