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You have likely seen Jonathan Castro's work, even if you don't know his name. His influence on the contemporary design landscape is magnificent. The Amsterdam-based, Peruvian born former Metahaven and Studio Dumbar designer has a style all his own; one that has shapeshifted and continues to evolve daily. The through line is that his work constantly embraces the unknown spaces between art and design practice. Look no further than his latest massive endeavor, the design of Dekmantel's 10th anniversary branding and promotional materials (alongside Conor Campbell Studio). If you haven't seen his work, you've seen his sources of inspiration: rocks, cracks in pavement, dirt, garbage, the sky on a windy day, etc. He mines the tangential—the marginal—to create visual communication, and also to evoke and capture emotional resonance. Castro is at the forefront of a plea for design to be a form of visceral creative expression and emotional healing. And he seems to have settled in as organically as the work he's created. It feels natural, alive, incidental, and vital. Talking to him felt no different. To Castro there's no line between assemblage, recycling, readymades, and originality: it's all fair play.We spoke with Castro about growing up in Peru, his various influences and ideologies, his ongoing conversations with himself surrounding how and why he continues to make work, the concept of “Ambient Design” (did we coin this?!), and what it means to take the time to explore the margins of life, the margins of creativity, and to embrace those things that others may have ignored or glazed over. His interest in the totality of the human experience—the darkness with the lightness—is explicitly laid out in our conversation.We can't thank Jonathan enough for his time. It was truly a phenomenal conversation and we hope you enjoy it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit graphicsupportgroup.substack.com

The cellist/composer/improviser in commentary with excerpts from several performances at Roulette: his own Transfer 01 and Metahaven projects; collaborative works with guitarist Wendy Eisenberg, drummer Ryan Sawyer, vocalist Charmaine Lee, violist Joanna Mattrey; and yuniya edi kwon's Sun Han Guild. St. Louis has also worked with Jaimie branch, Isabel Crespo Pardo, the Vision Festival, and for Spectrum, the Manhattan experimental music venue.https://roulette.org/

The cellist/composer/improviser in commentary with excerpts from several performances at Roulette: his own Transfer 01 and Metahaven projects; collaborative works with guitarist Wendy Eisenberg, drummer Ryan Sawyer, vocalist Charmaine Lee, violist Joanna Mattrey; and yuniya edi kwon's Sun Han Guild. St. Louis has also worked with jaimie branch, Isabel Crespo Pardo, the Vision Festival, and for Spectrum, the Manhattan experimental music venue.

We are so thrilled and honored to have sat down with Chloe Scheffe to discuss her impressive and inventive design career. We chat with her about the highs and lows, and inner struggles developing her sense of self and self-worth, from Community College to RISD to Metahaven to Pentagram to NY Times Magazine to HERE, and now, to a budding individual design practice. Chloe digs deep into the complex reality of being on the inside of a string of highly-coveted design positions, and the trials and tribulations of centering herself along the way. We can't thank Chloe enough for her time, honesty, and generosity. It was a real treat.PSA: Please don't forget to rate and subscribe to the podcast. All the support we receive is very dear to us. We still have a few t-shirts available for purchase, but supplies are running low! Thanks for listening! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit graphicsupportgroup.substack.com

Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven's body of work encompasses filmmaking, writing, objects, and graphics. Their activities offer a kind of cultural practice that doesn't shy away from producing knowledge and reflections; as much as the production of affect.We hear Daniel reflecting on their practice, through the notions of interface, agency, distribution, formats, versions, iterations, and many other potentials and obstacles towards making something meaningful and compelling. Episode Notes and LinksMetahaven http://metahaven.net https://mthvn.tumblr.comCentering on children, adults, and parental relationships, the absence of linguistic reference to reality, and the ineffability of the metaphysical, Metahaven's latest work titled Chaos Theory (2021) is a multi-voice video essay starred by Georgina Dávid and Valentina Di Mondo. It is a sequel of previous films by Metahaven titled Hometown (2018), Information Skies (2016), and The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015). Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/494444068 https://mthvn.tumblr.com/post/663742206080909312/valentinadimondotalkstometahavenAssembling genres (anime, sci-fi, fantasy role-playing games) and moving beyond the representation of linear time, Metahaven's Information Skies offers a dreamlike speculation that questions the boundaries between sound and images, reality and fiction, factuality and technology, reflection and embodiment.Citation by Lesia Prokopenko for Vdrome. https://www.vdrome.org/metahaven/Filmed in Beirut and Kyiv, Hometown depicts a fictional city through the perspective of protagonists Lera and Ghina that reveal their attachment to the Hometown which is so familiar yet not what it was once in the past. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/192165/metahavenhometown/Released in segments on YouTube, Sprawl is Metahaven's first feature film delving into various geopolitical disturbances that occurred in the last decade.Trailer: https://vimeo.com/152877677 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5432984/sprawl.space is the online interface for The Sprawl, where the viewer can see the “shards” that make up the full version of the film. The website has been shaped by the interface design of Metahaven and the viewing algorithms of YouTube. https://sprawl.space/about-the-sprawl/Assembling cinematic sequences shot in the Southeastern Urals and Macedonia, archival footage, and animation, Eurasia (Questions on Happiness) sets forth on a journey towards the Eurasian steppe where it meets the New Silk Road. https://vimeo.com/296095100Citation from Metahaven's exhibition at ICA titled Version History in 2018: https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/metahaven-version-history?fbclid=IwAR3tAJ5TQ2xxzVhItTYW7bx6uJcKBYjgdwBnGkXBgI75nmczpt6yDzcbXCwExpounding the genealogy of viral internet memes and their potential uses within politics as agitprops 2.0 to engineer public opinion, ‘Can Jokes Bring Down Governments' is a visionary essay on social media warfare by Metahaven. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/memes-design-and-politicsPublished by Sternberg Press in 2015, ‘Black Transparency' reflected on the changes that are introduced to our life with the fast-paced development of communication technologies and their impact on information democracy by tackling matters such as the conscience of the whistleblower, whose personal politics are now instantly geopolitical. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/black-transparency-the-right-to-know-in-the-age-of-mass-surveillance/Borrowing its title from the findings of a survey which indicates that an average person in the U.S. spends eight more minutes than the total duration of Stalker (161 minutes) daily, Digital Tarkovsky is a thought-provoking essay investigating the effect of social media platforms on our perception of time. Published by Strelka in 2018. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/digital-tarkovsky-metahaven-excerptFilmed in 1979, Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky is a loose adaptation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's science fiction novel Roadside Picnic (1972).Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that offers different catalogs of movies, documentaries, and series internationally.Mubi is a subscription-based streaming service that offers a curated catalog covering a wide range of moving image genres.Short for Internet Movie Database, IMDB is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb4:3 by Boiler Room is a multifaceted genre-spanning platform for curated and commissioned underground films exploring themes of performance, identity, youth culture, and anti-establishment. https://boilerroom.tvState of Concept Athens is a non-profit contemporary art institution founded by curator iLiana Fokianaki. https://stateofconcept.org/general/Conflict is an anarcho-punk band originally based in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(band)Mike Kelley (1954 – 2012) an influential artist who merged childhood objects with youth culture; personal stories with political histories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Kelley_(artist)

GEIR HARALDSETH Considering collegial exchange, informal peer-to-peer/practice-to-practice learning, and attempts at friendship as a fundamental part of our remit, UKS introduced a new, weekly walk-in-workshop in January 2019, called HOW TO PRACTICE? Starting off the workweek every Monday morning at 10am during exhibition periods, rotating local and international practitioners in the cultural field teach their conspicuous version of this essential question, serving up their tricks and toolboxes, fears and desires, excel sheets, or yoga positions as UKS serves free coffee. For the twenty-second walk-in-workshop, Oslo-based curator and writer GEIR HARALDSETH (b. 1977) will workshop us through his multi-facetted practice as a curator, director, and writer in the Norwegian art scene. Besides his professional practice, Haraldseth is an avid collector of bold artworks ranging from unknown origin to pieces by widely celebrated artists such as Metahaven and Richard Prince. The question of why it is vital to surround yourself with art both mentally and physically will be at the core of this edition of HOW TO PRACTICE? #22 HOW TO PRACTICE? took place on 30.09.2019 www.uks.no/archive/how-to-practice/ www.uks.no/archive/22-htp-geir-haraldseth/

Brian Kuan Wood talks to Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven (Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden) on the occasion of their exhibition at e-flux titled Turnarounds. Turnarounds consists of the film installation Hometown (2018), a new series of textile pieces, and an essay in e-flux journal. Hometown focuses its ultra-wide, hypnotic gaze on two cities—Beirut and Kyiv—that merge into a fictional home for the film’s protagonists, Ghina Abboud and Lera Luchenko. Fluorescent, lava-like animations alternate between images of industrial estates and overgrown gardens as Ghina and Lera lyrically describe the town. A caterpillar gets killed, but while mourning the loss, both evade responsibility for the crime. With their monologue in Russian and Arabic colorfully subtitled in English and Ukrainian, they eat ice cream. Their laughter solves puzzles, and there is a sunken city inhabited by adults who forgot what children taught them. The script of Hometown draws on a genre of Russian children poems called perevortyshi (“turnarounds,” or “twisters”). In perevortyshi, positive statements are provisionally joined with their opposites to the great joy of both narrator and listener. These poems are, in their playfulness, also fundamentally questioning our reliance on verbal statements in order to approach reality. In "Sleep walks the street," an essay for e-flux journal no. 102 that will go live when the exhibition opens, Metahaven interrogate our current tendency to aestheticize politics by relying on the cognitive guidance of metaphorical and allegorical construction. Examining figures of speech that normalize not just words but also entire semantic contexts and cognitive patterns, they reference the work of the German-Polish linguist Victor Klemperer (1881–1960) who studied the language of the Nazis. In searching for potential antidotes, Metahaven focus on the work of the Russian poets Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) and Daniil Kharms (1905–1942), as well as the contemporary poets Eugene Ostashevsky, Jackie Wang, and Galina Rymbu. In addition to the film installation and the essay, a new series of digitally created textile pieces is installed throughout the public and private spaces at e-flux. Bearing titles like Mise-en-Anthroposcene, Skyrofoam, and Now You Know You Now, Metahaven’s recent textile works draw on the thematic and affective tropes they have embraced since their documentary The Sprawl: Propaganda About Propaganda from 2015. The work of Metahaven consists of filmmaking, writing, and design. Hometown will be on view at e-flux through November 2, 2019.

In our final show of 2018, co-hosts Juliet and Tom discuss literature, films, theatre and exhibitions that made an impact on them throughout the year, as well as what they anticipate in 2019. SELECTED REFERENCES 120 BPM (dir. Robin Campillo, 2017) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6135348/ John Ash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ash_(writer) KEVIN BREATHNACH, Tunnel Vision (2019) - http://kbreathnach.tumblr.com/post/162864960815/tunnel-vision SAM BYERS, Perfidious Albion (2018) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hysterical-realism-a-review-of-perfidious-albion-by-sam-byers/ Cold War (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6543652/ Jean-Baptiste Del Amo The Encounter (Complicité) - http://www.complicite.org/productions/theencounter ANNIE ERNAUX, The Years (2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/22/the-years-annie-ernaux-review Faces, Places (dir. Agnès Varda & J.R., 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/20/faces-places-review-agnes-varda-jr-road-movie-documentary Zoya Falkova - http://romovayababa.com/en/ The Film of Kyiv (dir. Oleksiy Radynski, 2017-18) - https://www.ica.art/on/learning/oleksiy-radynski-film-kyiv Gare St. Lazare Players - http://garestlazareireland.com/home/ HEIKE GEISSLER, Seasonal Associate (2018) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seasonal-associate Gran Fury - https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2018/10/gran-fury/ In the Intense Now (dir. João Moreira Salles, 2017) Joan Jonas - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/13/joan-jonas-review-tate-modern JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) ANDREA LAWLER, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gender-bending-the-body-on-andrea-lawlors-paul-takes-the-form-of-a-mortal-girl/ Fernand Léger - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/25/fernand-leger-new-times-new-pleasures-tate-liverpool-adrian-searle VICTORIA LOMASKO, Other Russias (2017) - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/listening-to-ordinary-russians-by-drawing-them-one-by-one Daria Martin - https://vimeo.com/287699189 Raymond Mason - https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/obituary-raymond-mason McDermott & McGough, Oscar Wilde Temple - https://www.oscarwildetemple.org/ Metahaven - https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/metahaven-version-history-exhibition-world-mental-health-day-101018 Jean Mohr - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/15/jean-mohr-obituary More of an Avalanche (Wysing) - http://www.wysingartscentre.org/archive/exhibitions/more_of_an_avalanche/2018 NADA: Act 3 - The Exhibition (dir. Jasmina Cibic, 2017) - http://jasminacibic.org/projects/nada-act-iii-the-exhibition/ Penalty (dir. Kiriil Protsenko, 2005) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZxjXU5taE Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/michael-wood/at-the-movies Sophie Podolski - https://frieze.com/article/everything-permitted-sophie-podolskis-poetic-exuberance RICHARD POWER SAYEED, 1997: The Future That Never Happened (2017) - https://novaramedia.com/2017/11/03/the-future-that-never-was-1997-and-after/ Primas (dir. Laura Bari, 2017) - https://womenandhollywood.com/hot-docs-2018-women-directors-meet-laura-bari-primas-c62bc551f3f/ Charlotte Prodger - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/04/iphone-film-maker-charlotte-prodger-wins-2018-turner-prize Ann Quin JORDY ROSENBERG, Confessions of the Fox (2018) - https://lithub.com/confessions-of-the-fox/ Oxana Shachko ADELLE STRIPE, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/18/black-teeth-brilliant-smile-adelle-stripe-review That Rush! (dir. Isaac Julien, 1995) Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven - http://www.amvk.be/ The Work (dir. Gethin Aldous & Jairus McLeary, 2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/10/the-work-review-folsom-prison Hamlet Zinkovsky - https://tinyletter.com/zinovievletter/letters/what-are-we-looking-for-here-or-an-afternoon-in-pripyat

'De-Communisation' has become a central plank of government policy since 'Euromaidan' - the second revolution in Ukraine after independence from the USSR in 1991. Determination to erase not just the Soviet past but any possibility of left-wing radicalism is the one thing that unites the country's two largest political forces: one that represents European Union-facing neoliberalism, the other, violent Ukrainian nationalism. Often censored - or worse - during the 20th century, post-Soviet artists with socialist, feminist and/or utopian ideals have found themselves facing new forms of exclusion and oppression. How have they located themselves within the new cultural and political landscape? In this episode, Juliet - on residency at the Izolyatsia cultural foundation (https://izolyatsia.org/en) in Kyiv, where it has been in exile from its home in Donetsk since the Russian occupation in 2014 - meets artist Maria Kulikovska (https://www.mariakulikovska.com), herself in exile from Crimea, and academic Jessica Zychowicz (https://www.jeszychowicz.com), author of 'Frame Work: Art, Activism, and Biopolitics in Inter-Revolutionary Kyiv 2004-2018' (Univ. of Toronto Press) to discuss the practicalities, problems and possibilities for artists in contemporary Ukraine. On de-Communisation – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ukraine-decommunisation-law-soviet Donetsk People's Republic paramilitary takeover of Izolyatsia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfeGF1QYP4 SELECTED REFERENCES Ukrainian/Soviet modernist artists: Aleksandr Archipenko, David Burlyuk, Aleksandra Exter, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin Executed Renaissance (inter-war literary movement) - http://euromaidanpress.com/longreads/executed-renaissance-in-ukraine/ Ivan (dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932) - https://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/ivan-aleksandr-dovzhenko-1932/ Les Kurbas (theatre director) - http://www.kurbas.org.ua/en/centre.html Mykola Skrypnyk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Skrypnyk Svetlana Alexeivich (memoirs) Apartment 14 (young artist who inherited apartment) Bu-Ba-Bu (poetry circle) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu-Ba-Bu David Chichkan - https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/euromaidan-art-exhibition-vandalized.html Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8 Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014 film) - https://vimeo.com/90920946 Mayo Fryderyk – dressed as general, orange dwarf Grey Horses (dir. Mykola Ridnyi, 2016) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/video-works/grey-horses-1 Hometown (dir. Metahaven, 2018) - https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/hometown/hometown/ Hudrada (curatorial unit) SERHIY KOVALCHUK (ed.), Reimagining Utopias: Theory and Method for Educational Research in Post-Soviet Contexts (2017) CZESLAW MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (1953) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind MYKHAILO MINAKOV, Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) - http://www.minakovphilosophy.com/ Ofanziba group (Ukraine) Orange Alternative - https://culture.pl/en/article/the-orange-alternative-there-is-no-freedom-without-dwarfs Valentina Petrova Pomoranchova (Polish poetry group) Revolutionary Experimental Space (REP) - https://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/rep-revolutionary-experimental-space SOSka art collective (Kharkiv) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/curatorial-projects/soska-group The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda) (dir. Metahaven, 2015) - http://sprawl.space/about-the-sprawl/ Ukrainian Body exhibition - http://vcrc.org.ua/en/ukrbody/ Lesya Ukrainka Voina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina HAYDEN WHITE, The Content of the Form (1987)

Robyn and Chappell join us for an episode all about the presence or absence of “weird” sensibility in graphic design. We start off talking about the new art direction of Bloomberg Businessweek but end up discussing capitalism, Snapchat, and the SR-71 Blackbird. Links Discussed Bloomberg Businessweek Adobe Acrobat Vectors Conference Laverne and Shirley Intro Etsy PageRank Bloomberg Businessweek Tim Cook Cover Comparison️ Time Magazine Newsweek Richard Turley Snapchat Allison McCann Jennifer Daniel Tracy Ma Lucky Peach Magazine The Economist Urban Outfitters GOOD Magazine Coinstar Machine Learning A/B Testing David Carson Cult of the Ugly by Steven Heller Drop Cap Gemini The Establishment Ray Gun Magazine Emigre Magazine Brutalism Chappell and Eric Hu's Twitter Thread Ralph Caplan Yale Graphic Design Metahaven Trapper Keeper Gotham The Outline Law of the Instrument VSCO Clear App SNAP on the New York Stock Exchange Skunk Works Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Parallax Scrolling Five Thirty Eight Vice Nada Surf

Chappell and Robyn join us for a lively episode wherein we discuss the language we use to describe ourselves and our work. With her recent transition to the private sector, Chappell gives us her take on agency life and the vernacular associated with it. Find out why the words we use matter, even just internally. Links Sidecar Communication Studies Product Requirements Document (PRD) Huge Business Requirements Linguistic Relativity Telephone Line World of Warcraft Chicken or the Egg Dilemma Anthropology Industrial Revolution Basic Income Socialism Squarespace “Verbal Designer” Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified Minimum Viable Product Heuristic Subtweet Agile Software Development Metahaven Design Sprint Fonts vs. Typefaces

We take a tour of the sprawl with Metahaven to learn about the propaganda of propaganda and we travel beyond the Facebook wall to learn the real truth about targeted advertising. Plus Project Madison Valleywood!  

De design en research studio Metahaven wordt gerund door Vinca Kruk en haar compagnon Daniel. Sprawl, één van de laatste films van Metahaven was te zien op het IFFR, en was, in hun eigen woorden, propaganda over propaganda. Ze stellen daarin dat het internet een geopolitiek superwapen is geworden en stellen zeldzame, maar niet minder relevante vragen als: wie heeft er baat bij social media? Faciliteert het internet esthetisch terrorisme? zie digitalisme.nl voor informatie en achtergrondartikelen

Back in December of last year, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture launched in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, featuring an exhibition curated by Los Angeles-based critic Mimi Zeiger and designer Tim Durfee. Their show, “Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City,” winner of the Biennale’s Bronze Dragon, reconsiders what makes up today’s idea of a “city”, specifically regarding our digital and virtual presences, as well as contemporary issues of globalized economies. Mimi and Tim joined Paul and I in Archinect’s podcasting studio to talk about the exhibition, and introduce a discussion recorded in Shenzhen among the participants of “Now, There" and one of the Biennale’s curators, Aaron Betsky. Their conversation, “Where is now; When is then” makes up the meat of this Bonus Session. The exhibition features work by Besler & Sons, Walton Chiu, Tim Durfee and Ben Hooker (with Jenny Rodenhouse), John Szot Studio, m-a-u-s-e-r, and Metahaven, as well as texts by Joanne McNeil, Enrique Ramirez, and Therese Tierney.

The studio is at the forefront of thinking on transparency and surveillance