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MASKS, THE JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF DISSIMULATION IN ART | ARCHITECTURE | DESIGN<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014founded by Clemens Finkelstein and Anthony Morey<\/em>\u2014 emerges from students in the MDes Studies program at GSD, specifically what was then the History and Philosophy of Design concentration.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its inaugural issue, MASKS O: NIX<\/em>, positions the journal as being at the crossroads, in a space of \u201cnothingness\u201d from which to define itself: \u201cMASKS accepts that the truest truths may be built on lies. Lies upon lies, lies and lies, laying upon each other to raise truth to untouchable heights.\u201d In a parallel editorial, \u201cMASKS seeks to explore the aggregate of present, past, and future disciplinary structures in and between the fields of art, architecture, and design. We are not trying to reinvent what a journal is, but MASKS aims to display and extend the gestures of dissimulation that define our fields.\u201d True to this mission, the issue presents and an intentionally eclectic and heterogeneous selection of contributions \u2014works that both embody and interrogate dissimulation\u2014demonstrating the breadth and depth of inquiry among these GSD students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global in scope, exploratory in tone, and positioned outside the academy, the journal declares itself \u201c\u2014intentionally polarizing\u2014to kick off a discussion and incite institutional exchange across the globe, diversifying academic exploration with practitioners\u2019 voices from all walks of life.\u201d The essays traverse a wide range of subjects: from society and spectacle to paradox, nature and reason; from art as translation rather than invention to the notion of becoming; from tarantulas and tarantellas to the private lives of others, lived 24\/7; from the unfolding and collapsing of time to reflections on memory, moments, and history. Each contribution draws the reader deeper, inviting discovery of philosophies of life through varied and unexpected lenses. This is a student publication that astonishes with its outrageous inquisitiveness \u2014soaring beyond the usual canons of academia even as it inhabits them \u2014 yet its relentless obsession edges on a strangely endearing form of fl\u00e2nerie. It is, moreover, exquisitely designed. Since its inaugural issue founded at GSD, the journal has expanded its mission: \u201cto construct a framework for young practitioners, theorists and historian in design and intersecting discipline to foster pedagogical experimentation\u201d \u2014with contributions \u201corchestrated in two zones: AD (essays, fictions, illustrations, \u2026) and AB (events, exhibitions, lectures, performances, \u2026).\u201d Over the years, the editorship has shifted, the publication has moved beyond the GSD, and it is now released online. Currently on its sixth issue, it is led by editors Zahra Safaverdi and Edward Jiaolin Yu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Opinion on Architecture <\/em>| Task: A Magazine for the Younger Generation in Architecture <\/em>| Synthesis<\/em> | Connection: Visual Arts at Harvard <\/em>| for’m <\/em>| The Harvard Architecture Review <\/em>| re\/alignment <\/em>| APPENDX: Culture\/Theory\/Praxis <\/em>| isthmus <\/em>| Gamut<\/em> | Trays: A Student Journal of the GSD<\/em> | New Geographies <\/em>| Platform <\/em>| Harvard Real Estate Review <\/em>| Open Letters <\/em>| Very Vary Veri <\/em>| MASKS, the Journal: Journal of the Dissimulation in Art <\/em>| Process: Journal of the GSD Design Research Forum<\/em> | OBL\/QUE<\/em> <\/em>| WID Bibliography<\/em> | Pairs <\/em>| Translations<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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