Type Meets Prototype: Kelli Anderson
How can the inner workings of technology be made more visible? Graphic designer and master paper engineer Kelli Anderson explores using pop-up books to reveal what is often hidden.
The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, explores new horizons for writing about the arts and culture. Each year, the Walker Reader presents evolving series of original scholarly essays, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas reshaping us and our world.
Local artists explore Twin Cities’ sonic landscapes through newly commissioned original works of audio available via an interactive map.
As he gears up to embark on a North American tour with Hunx and His Punx, multidisciplinary artist and musician Seth Bogart sat down to chat about queercore, working with John Waters, and why he is glad he didn’t go to art school.
As algorithmic systems increasingly dictate the rhythms of our reality, artist and data scientist Angie Waller delves into the broader human realities of tech and make visible the unseen forces of digital capitalism and authoritarian automation.
An editorial perspective on contemporary art: news links plus original interviews, essays, and videos.
Exploring the myriad of ways research is utilized and rejected by artists, this series opens questions about how artists engage with, question, and produce research.
Tracing recent re-examinations of what museums are and can be, this series considers bold re-envisionings for the shape of museums both within their walls as well as throughout communities.
An exploration into how artists and designers interpret digital systems that influence how we read, write, and make meaning.
Exploring today’s artists who make work about and within conflict, this series examines how the clash between opposing viewpoints is shaping art and our world.
Over the past decade, the term “content” has proliferated throughout the public lexicon. But what exactly is content? Media theorists, meme historians, artists, and others explore what content is and who controls the containers.
Exploring the often-fraught relationship between artists and categorization, this series of original articles considers the limits and potentials for rethinking the ways artists and their work are classified.
Gathering a variety of perspectives from throughout Minnesota and beyond to consider the relationship between artists and their localities, this ongoing series explores placemaking and home as sites that collect intersecting and e
Gathering voices from throughout the US, this series makes visible the collaborative nature of queer nightlife and the continued impact this art form has on individual artists and communities alike.
From radical pioneers of new aesthetics to socially critical collaboratives, as well as those innovators who have been left out of design histories, this series celebrates subversive and rebellious design that
A behind-the-scenes glimpse that celebrates the staff, volunteers, artists, and others whose work forms the life and character of the Walker Art Center.
Pairing designers with thinkers and activists, this series of articles guest edited by David Gissen forms new collaborations that rework what everyday design could be if freed from concepts of a “normal body.”
Exploring artists whose work considers audio and the built environment, this series delves into the ways artists have reexamined the acoustic contours of the sites we inhabit.
Inviting various voices from both inside and outside of traditional design practices, You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover offers new perspectives on too-often overlooked aspects of book covers.
Exploring the myriad of ways research is utilized and rejected by artists, this series opens questions about how artists engage with, question, and produce research.
Tracing recent re-examinations of what museums are and can be, this series considers bold re-envisionings for the shape of museums both within their walls as well as throughout communities.
An exploration into how artists and designers interpret digital systems that influence how we read, write, and make meaning.
Exploring today’s artists who make work about and within conflict, this series examines how the clash between opposing viewpoints is shaping art and our world.
Over the past decade, the term “content” has proliferated throughout the public lexicon. But what exactly is content? Media theorists, meme historians, artists, and others explore what content is and who controls the containers.
Exploring the often-fraught relationship between artists and categorization, this series of original articles considers the limits and potentials for rethinking the ways artists and their work are classified.
Gathering a variety of perspectives from throughout Minnesota and beyond to consider the relationship between artists and their localities, this ongoing series explores placemaking and home as sites that collect intersecting and e
Gathering voices from throughout the US, this series makes visible the collaborative nature of queer nightlife and the continued impact this art form has on individual artists and communities alike.
From radical pioneers of new aesthetics to socially critical collaboratives, as well as those innovators who have been left out of design histories, this series celebrates subversive and rebellious design that
A behind-the-scenes glimpse that celebrates the staff, volunteers, artists, and others whose work forms the life and character of the Walker Art Center.
Pairing designers with thinkers and activists, this series of articles guest edited by David Gissen forms new collaborations that rework what everyday design could be if freed from concepts of a “normal body.”
Exploring artists whose work considers audio and the built environment, this series delves into the ways artists have reexamined the acoustic contours of the sites we inhabit.
Inviting various voices from both inside and outside of traditional design practices, You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover offers new perspectives on too-often overlooked aspects of book covers.
How can the inner workings of technology be made more visible? Graphic designer and master paper engineer Kelli Anderson explores using pop-up books to reveal what is often hidden.
Writer, activist, and facilitator adrienne maree brown explore hope in the face of dystopias, what stories can be found in our DNA, and the potential that speculation has for making the world a better place.
How can Kandis Williams’s approach to exploring Blackness in layered and shifting ways inform a catalog? Designer Nazli Ercan explores.
As a part of her Cinema Residency at the Walker, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich conducted a series of interviews with Black women, including Rachel Scott, marion eames white, Ilze Wolff, and Sinnamon Love, to reflect on and extend themes in her work.
How can artificial intelligence’s decision-making process be more visible to humans? Founder of the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University, Surya Mattu, discusses their art practice that explores how AI can be made more transparent, evaluated for bias, and the ways your devices are tracking you at home.
Dive into the nearly 7,000 articles and previous series in our archive. With artists’ reflections, scholarship, explorations of art education, original videos, and more, there is something for everyone.
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