CARLA SELVA MATTHES
Graphic Design↺Creative Directions
Carla Selva Matthes works in graphic design and its peripheral surroundings, collectively in Shared Practice, and in collaboration with others, with an interrelated / intersectional / multidisciplinary / time-sensitive / visual / textual / tactile approach. Carla Selva is Berlin based and holds a MFA level diploma in Systemdesign from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
Graphic Design↺Creative Directions
Carla Selva Matthes works in graphic design and its peripheral surroundings, collectively in Shared Practice, and in collaboration with others, with an interrelated / intersectional / multidisciplinary / time-sensitive / visual / textual / tactile approach. Carla Selva is Berlin based and holds a MFA level diploma in Systemdesign from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
Broken Relations. Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique
Broken Relations. Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique. Spector Books, 2023
Bookdesign in collaboration with Paul Zech. Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique is a symptom and an outcome of a collectively experienced crisis — one that has produced a new, widespread sensorium for often invisible and overlooked infrastructures and highlighted their importance for all aspects of life, including politics, both local and global, and art and curatorial practices and their systemic analysis.
Bookdesign in collaboration with Paul Zech. Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique is a symptom and an outcome of a collectively experienced crisis — one that has produced a new, widespread sensorium for often invisible and overlooked infrastructures and highlighted their importance for all aspects of life, including politics, both local and global, and art and curatorial practices and their systemic analysis.
On Singularities and Common Grounds
On Singularities and Common Grounds. 2023
Graphic Design in collaboration with Paul Zech. The KV Leipzig examines the tension between the collective and the singular with the program series On Singularities & Common Grounds, directing attention to spaces of exchange and negotiation where shared experiences (Common Grounds) can emerge. Artistic and design contributions, situated in various exhibition contexts and public interventions, aim to initiate a societal dialogue with urban communities and examine the role of artistic practices in this regard.
Graphic Design in collaboration with Paul Zech. The KV Leipzig examines the tension between the collective and the singular with the program series On Singularities & Common Grounds, directing attention to spaces of exchange and negotiation where shared experiences (Common Grounds) can emerge. Artistic and design contributions, situated in various exhibition contexts and public interventions, aim to initiate a societal dialogue with urban communities and examine the role of artistic practices in this regard.
westpol.space
Visual Identity for art association westpol.space, including web design and implementation.
In collaboration with Paul Zech. 2022.
The New Alphabet
The New Alphabet, 2022.
Logotype for The New Alphabet, a publication series by Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin,
published by Spector Books.
Someone told us a Story abot Nature and Purity
Someone told us a Story abot Nature and Purity, 2022. Design of the installation manifesto of Aterraterra (Fabio Aranzulla and Luca Cinquemani),
part of the exhibition „Ordo naturalis, ordo artificalis“ at ZAC Centrale of Fondazione
Merz, curated by Beatrice Merz and Agata Polizzi.
ARCHITECTUREOFSPEED®
Logotype and ephemera for ARCHITECTUREOFSPEED®, an exhibition in Venice
of the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation and ARCH+.
In collaboration with Paul Zech. 2021.
p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies.
p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies. 2020–2022.
Visual identity for p o s t documenta, an artistic research program of exchange among students and academic
staff from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Athens School of Fine Arts.
In collaboration with Paul Zech..
We all should be Lichens
We all should be Lichens. 2019
Graphic Design and logotype in collaboration with Paul Zech for the exhibition we all should be lichens – tentacular positions and perspectives on the Anthropocene.
Graphic Design and logotype in collaboration with Paul Zech for the exhibition we all should be lichens – tentacular positions and perspectives on the Anthropocene.
Archive.org/search: Digital Landscape
Archive.org/search: Digital Landscape. 2018.
Digital Landscape is a process of visual research into the world’s largest free digital library: the Internet Archive. The book presents an intuitive selection of algorithmically provided cultural artefacts. It thematises the vague openness within and one’s respective outlook on digital spaces. An outlook that is determined by numerous factors, which can indeed influence one another in turn. These include: the existing infrastructure and technical facilities; intransparent automated processes determined by other parties; one’s own associative search and subjective perception of its outcome. Hence areas of knowledge are formed, as interpretations generate meaning and potential courses of action. The sources of all included material are in the public domain and can be traced with its identifier code in the database of the Internet Archive.
Digital Landscape is a process of visual research into the world’s largest free digital library: the Internet Archive. The book presents an intuitive selection of algorithmically provided cultural artefacts. It thematises the vague openness within and one’s respective outlook on digital spaces. An outlook that is determined by numerous factors, which can indeed influence one another in turn. These include: the existing infrastructure and technical facilities; intransparent automated processes determined by other parties; one’s own associative search and subjective perception of its outcome. Hence areas of knowledge are formed, as interpretations generate meaning and potential courses of action. The sources of all included material are in the public domain and can be traced with its identifier code in the database of the Internet Archive.
AIWON
AIWON. 2019.
AIWON is a design fiction play. The specimens telling a tale are based on notation systems used to transcribe movement in both dancing and engineering.
AIWON is a design fiction play. The specimens telling a tale are based on notation systems used to transcribe movement in both dancing and engineering.
Human Particles of the Living Sun
Graphic Design for a publication by the Room and Installation Class of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2020. Human Particles of the Living Sun was an archaeological approach to scraps of data from places and moments in time, reconstructed and interconnected anew.
What’s the Story Morning Glory
What’s the Story Morning Glory. 2020
Graphic Design for the publication and performance What’s the Story Morning Glory? in collaboration with Paul Zech and Anna Maria Krężel.
Graphic Design for the publication and performance What’s the Story Morning Glory? in collaboration with Paul Zech and Anna Maria Krężel.
work/stage
work/stage. 2020.
Poster Design for the exhibition work/stage at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in collaboration with Ris Pascoe.
Poster Design for the exhibition work/stage at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in collaboration with Ris Pascoe.
