MTWTF SS

…and used by Levine multiple times during the late 1960s, were he portrays himself as a communication artist. The second plate overprints a series of horizontal lines suggestive of the interlacing used for broadcast television (visible whenever tv screens are photographed), in order to exemplify one signature way Levine presented content in one medium within another medium, in his work. For example: A phone conversation, as a photo, as televisual broadcast, as a poster. ¶ The exhibition The Halprin Workshops, 1966–1971 explored a series of experimental workshops presented in the San Francisco Bay area and along the Northern California coast by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and the renowned dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin. The series brought together…

…designers, dancers, architects and artists to collaboratively develop new approaches to environmental awareness and design. ¶ The exhibit poster designed by MTWTF features two different representations of a single event––a workshop session in which participants performed a series of multi-sensory activities to model open-ended relationships with the beach environment. The back of the poster features the “score,” or loosely structured guidelines, written by the Halprins to facilitate this group activity. ¶ The poster’s front features the same event, only as a documentary photograph. It is printed using two interlocking halftone screens–one at half the size of the other. The printing technique creates additional visual action inside the image.