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Rapid Nostalgia
MFA Thesis
Multimedia thesis project asking the question:
Straight from rapidnostalgia.com:
What is Rapid Nostalgia? It’s a phenomenon (if you want to call it that) that is very unique to our time here on Earth, the Right Now. Rapid nostalgia occurs as the gap where our current state and our past shrinks as a result of technological acceleration.
We live in a time of incredible innovation and progress, technologically speaking. We are rarely dazzled any more by the great stretches of asphalt that interrupt our towns. We zip past whol populations, hopping from Point A to Point B in about 40-50 minutes. What we mustn’t forget are the implications of Progress and Change. We can be nostalgic rapidly now, with our long history of tunnel-visioned erasure. Memories made a year ago can become sharply nostalgia when a new coffee shop, live-work complex or shiny new piece of infrastructure replaces whatever was there before.
Looking back, this feeling of longing for the past is healthy and necessary in appreciating Los Angeles in its entirety. We can’t forget the people who have flourished here in spite of covenants and narrow-minded ideals. What is our future? Is it on inclusion, celebration? Or will the layer of this place be scrubbed away, replaced by newness?
Question this feeling of rapid nostalgia. Appreciate the here and now. Invest in your community, take pride in your contributions. Meet your neighbors. Maybe take a new off-ramp once in a while. And, above all, savor the Right Now, for it will not last.
Most of the pieces within the umbrella of Rapid Nostalgia hinged on the use of Google products—namely Google Street View. Shocked by the rapid change showcased within the lens of a Google Street View car’s path through familiar neighhoods, I created a series of books, motion pieces, and art prints highlighting the breakneck speed at which we can be missing a reality that’s already gone.
❶ Rapid Nostalgia Zine Series
❷ Art Prints
3D Risograph Prints
❸ Textile Exploration
❹ Video Experiments
❸ After graduating Otis College of Art and Design, Rapid Nostalgia lives on. This image is a design rendered to look like a risograph print, a series of postcards depicting the various cold war era emergency sirens that still stand around Los Angeles today.
❹ The first edition of How to Give Your Work Away for Free, by Matthew Manos, featured a book sleeve that folded out into a small poster.