'Spaces' is the interactive
environment on this website featuring
an ongoing series of mini computer programmes,
which range from interactive typefaces to more abstract exploratory environments or
work-in-progress.
'Spaces' can be accessed via the button on the top right of this webpage. For more
information, click on the info button at the top right of the page of the respective space.
Traditionally described as the way language is made visible, typography has evolved from this
long-established role into numerous abstract, semi-abstract and non-linguistic forms. In a world
where emojis and symbols have usurped the role of typography, and where letterforms shape perception
and influence how messages are felt as much as read, typography is untethering itself from the need
to only convey meaning.
Hosted by RCA tutor Adrian Shaughnessy, this session interrogates the work
of three practitioners: Dr Charlotte Lengersdorf, Mark Webster and Jack Llewellyn, who are, in
different and highly individualistic ways, shifting typography into a post-semantic realm of visual
expression.
My work ‘ephemeral typing’ is
exhibited as part of Fubar
(/’fu:bar/),
a program focused on electronic experiments and research in contemporary
glitch art theory and practice.
The 2024 production is focused on ARCHIVING practices and FAILURES in
DIY New Media Art and Culture.
Fubar offline exhibition is available OCT 5th – 18th 2024 at
the Pogon Jedinstvo cultural venue in Zagreb (Croatia).
Following the Zagreb-based install, an online exhibition will be available until 2025.
All events are open and free access, as well as archived and networked.
The participating authors list is available
here.
One of my 'uncausal screenshots' was selected to be included in the Computer Art
Society (cas) Members'
Exhibition 2024 that launches on the 26th June 2024 at BCS Moorgate in London and can be
seen from July - September 2024. The work will be
included in the collection of the Computer Arts Archive, that aims to explore the impact of digital
culture and ensure that computer art is recognised as a significant contemporary art form with a
rich and diverse history.
My paper 'Hacking
Writing - Asemic
Writing: The Pleasure of Challenging Systems' for DiSCo Journal is now online.
DiSCo Journal's second issue features 10 'hacks' that explore hacking as a digital and/or analogue
mode of intervention or deviation from a system. These hacks are diverse in subjects, methodologies
and (re) presentations to reconsider hacking as knowledge, and at times, nonknowledge existing off
of sheer irony.
Launch party 23rd May from 7pm, Reference Point, London.
'In this metaphor, writing is the host
- a structured means of communication that follows established rules. The parasite represents an
external force that intrudes upon a system, leaving it changed. ('Parasitic Interfaces', 2024)
Pictures from the recent exhibition of my PhD research at 'Hopscotch', research biennale 2023,
Copeland Gallery, London.
Screenshots from my PhD research, titled 'Towards an Uncausal Practice of Visual Communication'
'Soon, I began to sense that the computer screen I saw in front of me was somehow different from the
screen I was used to seeing. the strangeness of it was subtle but undeniable.' ('Towards an Uncausal
Practice of Visual Communication', PhD Thesis 2023)
tate christmas card – my performative typeface reveals textual and ornamental shapes on the
christmas card for tate london. now on sale online and in the tate shops.
In the typeface ‘mingle’, each alphabetic character is cut up in such a way that it mingles, while
typing, with
the subsequent character within a word, forming a new hybrid letterform.
The
typeface explores the choreography of typing as a creative rather than reproductive act. Mingle
combines qualities of asemic writing with a functional typeface. It keeps the reader in a state of
hovering between reading and looking.
Click here to try.
Performative Typeface
Analogue sketches for an asemic typeface.
joan miro once said 'i try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that she music'.
how could colour function as written language? where are the limitations of written language?
first sketch for a performative typeface
collaboratively performed typeface at the typographic singularity exhibition
asemic characters composed with my performative typeface
'Gestural alphabet' was exhibited at Primary Questions 2017 (London), Language Games Conference 2017
(London) and Typojanchi, International Typography Biennale 2019 (Seoul). (Please turn on sound)
Agil is a typeface that is responsive to the speed of typing.
Inspired by analogue writing, agil shows a development from static letters to agile,
dynamic forms with increased typing speed. Agil is not a digitalisation of analogue
script, but its curves are based on an analysis of speed in handwriting. The five styles of agil
(nix agil, solala agil, ziemlich agil, voll agil,
and hyper agil) are combined in a text. This project was the winner of the third prize at the
international Designpreis Halle 2017. (Pictures by Felix Rabe)
Click here to try.
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