Talking to the curator of 'stealing eyeballs - designing media': Exhibition maker and author Christian Muhr talks about Art, Graphic Design, authorship and double-agents.
An encounter with the curator of 'stealing eyeballs - designing media'
Free exhibition-maker, producer and author Christian Muhr has been following the phenomena of design in their various contexts and constellations over the years: together with Walter Pamminger in 1998 he brought 'signs of trouble - International Positions in Graphic Design of the 90's' to Austria and explored in 1999 with the exhibition fastforward - Fashion in the Media of the 90's. Christian Muhr (cmuhr@liquidfrontiers.com) works in a project-related cooperation form with the architecture- and design-group propeller z and since last year is focussing his conceptional and production work together with Sabine Dreher under the label 'liquidfrontiers', that deals with art, design, architecture and media.
In his interview with Andreas Hirsch, Christian Muhr talks about Art, Graphic Design, authorship and double-agents. He considers the labeling of creative activities as “art” or “not art” as outdated and counterproductive. His special interest is with designers with a conceptive strength and a high level of reflection about their work. Many of the effects encountered today – like strategies around authorship or emerging collectives – seem to reflect developments that have been happening before in the art context. He finds designers often acting as “double agents”, when they try to remain authentic while at the same time selling their work in the corporate world.
Ein Gespräch mit dem Kurator von 'stealing eyeballs - designing media'. Ausstellungsmacher und Autor Christian Muhr spricht über Kunst, Graphic Design, Autorenschaft und Doppelagenten.
Ein Gespräch mit dem Kurator von stealing eyeballs - designing media.
Der freie Ausstellungsmacher, Organisator und Autor Christian Muhr verfolgt seit Jahren in seinen Projekten die Phänomene des Design in verschiedensten Formen und Konstellationen: Gemeinsam mit Walter Pamminger brachte er 1998 „signs of trouble - Internationale Positionen im Graphicdesign der 90er Jahre“ nach Österreich. Bei fast forward untersuchte er 1999 die „Mode in den Medien der 90er Jahre“. Christian Muhr (cmuhr@liquidfrontiers.com) arbeitet in einer projektbezogenen Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit der Architekten- und Designergruppe propeller z zusammen und bündelt seit vergangenem Jahr gemeinsam mit Sabine Dreher unter dem Label „liquidfrontiers“ konzeptive und realisatorische Arbeiten an kulturellen und kommerziellen Projekten, die sich in den Bereichen Kunst, Design, Architektur und Medien bewegen.
