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Category: Modernism

Chance Operations – an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała

This is an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała, an exhibition catalogue accompanying this show at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, … More

Experimental Music, Foksal Gallery, John Cage, Komar and Melamid, Milan Grygar

From Homelessness to Homelessness

This essay was written as a coda to a book edited by Robin Schuldenfrei, Atomic Dwelling (Routledge, 2012) ♦  Covering … More

Architecture and the Image of the Future in the People’s Republic of Poland

The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases … Karl … More

leisure, socmodernism

Paradise Lost?

This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British … More

Andrea Zittel, Marjetica Potrč, socmodernism

Sounding the Body Electric – art, cybernetics and electro-acoustic music in Eastern Europe in the 1960s

    Neo-Constructivist, light and kinetic art, cybernetic design, concrete and electro-acoustic music were fields of high creativity and experiment … More

Communism, cybernetics, Electro-acoustic music

A spectre haunts the world and it is the spectre of migration

This review appears in Frieze, November 2011. ♦ In recent years Studio Formafantasma – Italian designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone … More

Formafantasma, LIbby Sellers Gallery

Manhattan’s Doubles

This article was written a few years ago when preparing the Cold War Modern exhibition at the V&A. It first … More

Buckminster Fuller, Cold War, Koolhaas, Lewis Mumford, Manhattan, Nuclear War, Ralph Lapp, Superstudio, Václav Cigler

The Art of Cybernetic Communism

This article is due to appear in a book in Poland. It has been a long time in production so … More

cybernetics, Dvizhenie, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Kineticism, Komar and Melamid, Posthumanism, Silent Star, Soviet Union, Stanisław Lem, VAL, Wodiczko

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This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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