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Decoding the Visual DNA of Urban Spaces

Contemporary urbanity continuously defies clear definitions and demarcations in the context of international political events, ongoing trends towards urban agglomeration and the digitisation of multiple spheres of life into the multilayered digital realm. The...

Comics as Tools for Urban Critique and Social Transformation

Throughout their history, Comics have served as a medium for entertainment, social commentary, empowerment and urban critique. When it comes to altering and expressing urban imaginaries, Comics have always been used to chart new waters and to investigate directions...

Of Rocks, Walls and Cave Drawings – Crafting Urban Imaginaries

In my recent exhibition at New Bar Vienna, titled ‚Of Rocks, Walls and Cave Drawings‘, I delved into the world of the common unconscious addressed in multiple drawings, which are referencing ancient cave drawings. As it was the case with the first...

The Graphic Knowledge in Patterns, Shades and Patterned Objects

As the here annexed images show, a transition from mere graphical patterns to the complete object appears to exist, via an array of properties that refer to such elements as light, context, pattering, practice, co-constitution of meaning etc. This is to say that from...

Patterns of Everyday Objects

Occasionally one discovers how everyday objects influence our patterns of recognition that subconsciously inform our behavior and attitudes. Often unnoticed, the structure of forms can be related to knowledge, substantiating our worldviews and perspectives on life....