SVA NYC Summer Residency
The Intersection of Academia and Urban Energy (Summer, 2013)
In Summer 2013, while living in New York City, I was accepted into the prestigious Illustration & Visual Storytelling Residency Program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). This wasn’t just a residency; it was an immersion into the global art world, surrounded by the industry’s most influential mentors and peers.
For me, SVA was the “laboratory” where the Synthesis philosophy was refined. While the world was seeing the final product on the shelves of Paris and London, I was in a Manhattan studio, pushing the boundaries of what digital art could become.
Why the SVA Residency is a Legacy Foundation:
∙ Academic Validation: SVA is a world-renowned institution. Being selected for this program was a formal recognition of my technical skill and the depth of my visual storytelling.
∙ The NYC Influence: Living and creating in New York in parallel of my global collaborations provided a unique “High-Tech, High-Touch” energy that only Manhattan can offer.
∙ Studio Mastery: The residency allowed me to step away from the commercial world and focus on the “code-as-craft” aspect of my work, ensuring that my future projects would have a deep, fine-art foundation.
