This essay was written for the catalogue accompanying The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR…
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…
Cieślewicz’s ‘Forefather’s Eve’ (occasional notes on posters)
This poster produced by Roman Cieślewicz in 1967 has become an iconic image in the history of the People’s Republic of Poland. Designed…
Speaking about exhibitions
Last night I went to a talk – of sorts – at the RCA called ‘Spoken Exhibition’ which represents ‘historic’…
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…
Electric Birdsong
The University of Brighton Gallery is currently hosting a retrospective exhibition of the work of German sound artist Peter Vogel.…
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…
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…
Boiling the City
At the Łódź Design Festival last weekend, I saw this exercise in data visualisation and sonification. Culling data pulled from…
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…
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