Two years into his tenure at RISD, 43-year-old Maeda is using his perch as a college president to sell innovation and design as a critical component of business in the 21st century and to somewhat stealthily create a new generation of RISD graduates who will be artrepreneurs.
The installation, currently housed at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing, layers 12 of its component clear plastic sheets to create a roughly one-foot deep display that plays a simple pre-drawn animation.