
Andrew Whitworth, a Minnesotan who found their way to the University of Hartford as a Marketing major, but soon transferred to the Hartford Art School. Now a Visual Communication Design major with a minor in Sculpture, their work is focused around the meticulous process and minimalism in both fields. In the design world, they are interested in pursuing package design and branding in the future. Their sculpture and personal work is focused around an hourly data set of personal interactions they have collected throughout the past two years. In sculpture, they create mixed media installation, performance sound, and video work. After graduation, they plan to relocate to Bozeman, Montana to begin work in the glass industry.
Visual Communication Design Projects
I am a minimalist by nature, being drawn to create modern, dynamic, and thought through design. My love of sculpture assists in my design skills because I think both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally.
Sculpture Projects
Using digital and analog methods, I create systems of transcription including mixed-media installation, performance, sound, and video work. Two years ago I began a meticulous process of documenting each of my hourly interactions. This process began after getting out of a controlling relationship, with this major life shift I knew my interactions would shift in response; I wanted to document that change. What started as a personal project became an ongoing investigation into interpersonal interactions of data and quantification. At this point, I have over 18,000 entries.
The work I create is focused entirely on this data set that I have compiled. I am most interested in the space between each interaction. I focus on what is unintentional, unrecognizable, and how these elements influence each interaction I have. Each person brings their own experiences to every interaction they have with another person, no two encounters, even between the same people, will ever be the same. Every moment people are experiencing and thereby learning new things, this new knowledge impacts the experience of interactions. Being intentional with my interactions throughout the last two years has taught me about the way people interact, their opinions on documentation, and secrecy in vulnerability.
My documentation leaves no room for mistakes or secrets, forcing myself to be brutally honest with my interactions and intentions with these people. I live my life being vulnerable, exposed, and honest because of this data set. I create work that focuses on this exposed vulnerability and honesty, I do notwant to hide what I am doing, or how I am spending my time. There are no secrets, just names, numbers, associations, and memories.









