This is an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała, an exhibition catalogue accompanying this show at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, … More
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Roman Cieslewicz, decorated alphabet from La France mysterieuse published by Claude Tchou, 1964
Dlouhý’s ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ (occasional notes on posters)
Bedřich Dlouhý was an occasional poster artist and book designer. Better known as a surrealist painter and a member of … More
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
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
Any colour .. as long as it’s black
Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art – in its temporary location of a socmodernist furniture store – is, appropriately enough, hosting … More
Boiling the City
At the Łódź Design Festival last weekend, I saw this exercise in data visualisation and sonification. Culling data pulled from … More
Machines Should Work, People Should Think
IBM commissioned Jim Henson, later the hand behind the Muppets, to make a film promoting the MT/ST, an early word … More
