When is typography conceptual?
Steen Ejlers
Steen Ejler's contribution to the conference Conceptual Type – led by ideas, Copenhagen, 19. November 2010.Where are idealistic fonts, artsy non political funny difficult fonts that do not look like frontiers of new belief?We would focus on ideas and concepts behind type. Rather than talk about type asking who made it what does like, we will start a decade why make mean?In conceptual art idea or concept is most important aspect work. When an artist uses form art, means all planning decisions beforehand execution perfunctory affair. The becomes machine makes art.'Sol LeWitt. 'Paragraph art', Artforum, 1967.We borrow from Sol LeWitt's vision replace ‘art’ with ‘type’, looking for idea-type-machines our time.[From call]
Artifact|Architecture, Design and Conservation (Aarhus School of Architecture, Design School Kolding, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK))