An extract from my book, Ultra Sounds. The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio, introducing the Polish Radio Experimental … More
Category: Cold War
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 … More
Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe
In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More
The Peasant in the City
This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More
Notes from the Underground
In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More
The Choreography of the Console: The Design of Electronic Environments and their Operators in the Cold War
This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More
Interview with Herito magazine
In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.
Nervous Systems: New Machines and Bodies in Polish Art and Film after the Thaw
This essay was published in the catalogue accompanying the Cosmos Calling! exhibition at Zacheta, Warsaw, summer 2014. In … More
Walking With Hansen
In lieu of the full text, here is a link to a talk on Oskar Hansen’s ideas about the mobile … More
Zamecznik’s Silent Star (occasional notes on posters)
In many science fiction films of the Cold War period the cosmos is represented as an extra-terrestrial space in which … More
