Ralph Schraivogel, a Swiss graphic designer and lecturer, shared his thoughts on poster art and typography with DAFES PROJECTOR🔦

"I began to wonder what the point was when an image and typography began to conflict within a poster. For example, in a Russian icon, the font is seamlessly incorporated into the image, just as in medieval books.

It all probably started with the Renaissance, when the laws of perspective began to be used in fine art and it started imitating reality in an illusory way — that was the moment when the included font began to conflict with the realism of the image."

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Video Games: The Youngest Art
essay by Erik Ilmuratov

“Games as an interactive medium and artistic method are used in contemporary art works. [...] The exhibition space can be designed as resembling a video game, like the GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art and Novoe Architecture Bureau did at the exhibition ‘Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene’ in 2021.

The viewers were invited to follow a route along special trails and a floor surface that was made of luminous squares and connected the museum halls. The very process of exploring the exhibition space was transformed into a gamified process reminiscent of arcade video games, questionnaires and scanwords.”

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Mass Makeup: Freckles
by The Rodina | Tereza Ruller & Vit Rulller
 
Inspired by Korean standards of beauty, makeup trends, and facial plastic surgery, artists examine beauty as a socially constructed category. During the Mass Makeup performance, Tereza’s face was restaged into a canvas — a surface where action can take place. This act questions the involvement of society in how natural assemblages of muscles and skin are transformed into cultural artefacts.
 
🔗read more about The Rodina, a post-critical design studio with an experimental practice drenched in strategies of performance art, play, and subversion

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