With Ieva Astahovska, Mari Laanements, I organised an online workshop over two days in autumn 2021 on the impact of…
Hands, Ears and Eyes. Humanism in Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s
In autumn 2020, I gave an online talk on humanism in graphic design in the 1950s and 1960s focusing on…
Jurkiewicz – Astronomer/architect
This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław…
Visual Ethics After Communism
This theme issue of Martor examines the ethical questions raised by the publication and display of images and objects associated…
Post-atheistic religiosity – a talk in Budapest
This a film of a talk that I gave at Artpool’s 40th anniversary conference in Budapest in February 2020 on…
Facing Space – Jarek Kozakiewicz
This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who…
A Revolution In Sound: Inside The Polish Radio Experimental Studio
An extract from my book, Ultra Sounds. The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio, introducing the Polish Radio Experimental…
Modernizm realny około 1981 roku
If you read Polish, here is a long essay on ‘real existing Modernism’ in the PRL. Click here. it appears…
Guernica: Warsaw, London, Munich, New York
This essay on the afterlives of Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ appeared in Polish in Nigdy więcej. Sztuka przeciw wojnie i faszyzmowi…
Modernism and the Spectres of the Past in Piłsudski’s Poland
I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in…