The Typeset Archive
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This talk introduces a process-based research practice focused on the reproduction of texts through different media and materials.
I collect political and manipulative text fragments from my everyday offline and online environment. By presenting them in a new form and context – often through print, sometimes through programming language or vinyl wall text –, the way they are encountered and read changes. Media and materiality impart new meaning onto the words. Simultaneously, this act of turning the digital analogue is a practice of archiving, of giving permanence and longevity to typically fleeting text encounters.
Through changing reading situations, works can pose questions of authenticity and accountability, especially in types of official political communication.
Klara is an Austrian artist and graphic designer based in London. She holds degrees in BA Information Design (University of Applied Sciences Joanneum, Austria) and Visual Arts: Book Arts (Camberwell College of Arts, UK) and is currently working as a Letterpress Technician at London College of Communication and New North Press. In her own practice, she focuses on letterpress as a means to reproduce, document and archive digital language and political documents.
