Tyler Paige¶

Recently I have been teaching at Pratt and at Rutgers. I’ve been collecting my teaching materials—sometimes tutorials, sometimes emotional workshops, sometimes art assignment—to a portal I’m calling “The Center for Dizziness and Balance.”

The throughline between my teaching and my creative practice is to find useful disorientations: misheard phrases that spark interest; quick glances at the clock when a second feels strangely longer; sudden vividness when a truism feels deep. Therefore, the name here is taken from a rehabilitation center seen driving 65mph down the Garden State Parkway—the center between dizziness and balance.

I’m not really sure what this is lol. It’s a short story about ridiculous businesses, and talking in circles with other people. I like how it is falling off the page.

These are slides from a lecture I gave at Mason Gross School of the Arts, about what makes an interesting project on the internet

Open Flame is an amazing queer comedy open mic, and I was super excited to make their website. The thing that makes their event so special is the amount of community building that happens in the audience. I’m happy with the finished product, but there was nice sketches along the way. Might make them into my own personal projects soon!

From top:

• Finished website (archived)
• Windows
• Stretch
• Dayglow

For Valentine’s Day, I wrote about how in love I was. It’s a text format I’m fiddling with: text that’s on display but reticent to let you in.

I’ve been working on this component that tries to answer the question, “how do we dissect a photo?”

It’s had a few lives, but this one is my favorite: gave us handwritten annotations of her painting. We wanted to tell the reader what she had to say, and it was important that her hand was present.

• Art World’s Newest Star Makes $3 Million Paintings. Is the Crash Next?
• The History of NFL Player Protests During the National Anthem

I have been practicing my trigonometry to reflect on what a topsy-turvy world this is!

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