Jasio Stefanski is the digital designer at the Walker Art Center. He is also one half of Studio-Set, a collaborative design practice with Lauren Thorson.
Control & Contextual Language: An Interview with Stephen Willats
Conceptual art pioneer Stephen Willats uses cybernetics as a mode of questioning how art functions in society. Taking the form of diagrammatic renderings and conceptual models, his work shifts focus from the art object to the audience, comprising a practice concerned with the “the fabric of society.” Following the launch of the new issue of Control Magazine, and in the final days of his solo show at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, we connected with Willats to discuss self-organization, the origins of punk, and what it meant to create clothing that requires assembly.