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Type Tuesday: Code is dead (long live code!)

This event – the 50th edition of Eye’s regular Type Tuesday events – will focus on digital design and the threats of so-called ‘AI’.

Speakers include Jann Choy (Field.io), Joel Gethin Lewis (Universal Everything) and Oswin Tickler (UAL) plus special guests.

Jann, whose work you can see on the cover of Eye 107, is a multidisciplinary, experiential designer at Field, who moves between graphic design, creative coding, 3D and moving image.

Joel Gethin Lewis, interactive creative director at Universal Everything since 2019, is researching solar-powered computing, the history of weaving and global scale augmented reality sculpture.

Oswin Tickler is a designer, educator, coder and artist who has explored systems and ways of working that combine algorithms and creative code with print processes.

Jann, Joel and Oswin all featured in ‘Ultra process’, John Walters’ article about visual artificial intelligence in Eye 107. There will be a panel that discusses some of the controversial issues highlighted in that article, and in J. P. Hartnett’s ‘Baked in’, which focused on ethical and environmental aspects of AI.

Tickets £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students/LLMs

There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 108, plus bargain back issues. Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions). All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation. Ticket is non-refundable, however you are welcome to offer your ticket to another person. Please contact [email protected] to change the name of your booking at least seven days prior to the event date.

Typographics Conference

The main conference will feature an international line-up of designers, with presentations about type and its use in graphic design, web design, publication design, book design, packaging, branding, corporate identities, advertising, motion graphics and more.

Speakers include Elizabeth Goodspeed, Sadie Red Wing, Matt Willey, Johannes Breyer, Elizabeth Karp‑Evans, Jon Key, Alan Bell, Robyn Kanner and many more.

Venues: Most of the Typographics festival will take place at The Cooper Union, in the East Village neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Tickets: $395-465

Barbara Kruger – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The first survey exhibition in Spain of work by Barbara Kruger, which showcases Kruger’s ability to transform architectural spaces into immersive, text-driven experiences. Visitors will step into powerful installations where language takes centre stage, enveloping entire environments with vinyl, soundscapes, and multichannel video works. Many of these pieces revisit and reimagine Kruger's early works, brought to life anew through digitisation, large-scale LEDs and the integration of sound. Organised in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition invites visitors to engage with Kruger’s provocative explorations of language, media and meaning in the digital age. Curator: Lekha Hileman Waitoller

Galleries: 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 209, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm.

Read Reputations: Barbara Kruger by Karrie Jacobs in Eye 5.

Final weeks

Paulo de Cantos: 8 + 1 = 1. Designer of Pedagogical Theories

Paulo de Cantos (Portugal, 1892-1979) was a Portuguese educator and amateur typographer who immersed himself in the educational reform movements of the early 20th century. Between the 1920s and 1960s, he published a wide range of textbooks designed to support learning. His books combined structural experimentation with resourcefully designed visualizations: diagrams, typography, and especially the tactile possibilities of letterpress composition.

Print Gallery Tokyo, 9-2-113 Funamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0006, Japan

Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

The first major exhibition devoted to visionary artist and designer Tirzah Garwood (1908-51). Known as the wife of Eric Ravilious and the author of Long Live Great Bardfield, Garwood excelled as a fine artist and printmaker. This retrospective marks the first time the full extent her output has been shown, including more than 80 of Garwood’s works plus eleven watercolours by Ravilious that draw out the thematic similarities, shared interests, and distinct artistic personalities of this remarkable couple. Curated by James Russell.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road, London SE21 7AD

Opening Hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm; Closed Mon except Bank Holidays.

See also ‘The crew with no name’ in Eye 95.

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet

This exhibition will celebrate the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works. Electric Dreams will offer visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action - from psychedelic environments created in the 1950s and 60s, to early machine-made art from the 70s and 80s, which has paved the way for today’s experiments with AI. Bringing together an international network of artists who used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and early 1990s, the exhibition will show how these groundbreaking figures imagined a visual language for the future.

Admission: General £22, concessions available

Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

‘Electric Dreams’ is reviewed by Joel Gethin Lewis (see above) in Eye 108.

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