Martha Rettig (with Sofie Hodara)
MFA ’13 DMI
Created in 2018, The Pursuit of Happiness is an augmented reality poster exhibition featuring more than 50 letter-pressed American presidential campaign slogans. The posters act as a dataset that portray, in slogan form, the evolution of American values. Augmented reality is used to highlight the sometimes-unsettling and often-preposterous words of American political leaders from the past 200 years. And the project, as a whole, injected a bit of humor into our political climate at the time.
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Martha is a designer, experimenter, and immersive artist whose work focuses on merging traditional mediums with emerging technologies. Her experience crosses many disciplines, including design concept, visual design, interactive design, interface design, data visualization, experience design, and creative direction. She co-founded an interactive design agency, Cykod, in 2006 and helped build digital solutions for over two hundred companies. Martha currently is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art + Design teaching in the undergraduate Communication Design department and the co-director of the college’s Dynamic Media Institute MFA program. For more information: martha.rettig.org
