Chris Meighan’s graduation publication To err is almost human concerns the creation of a machine capable of drawing itself. This work is an example of ‘Technical research as artistic medium’, a process further developed by Meighan since this publication was written. In this presentation he will explain the wider context of what this means in artistic and in social terms, and how making and technical discovery are both political acts and tools of personal empowerment. He will also address the concept of ‘emergence’, the idea of complex systems that can (appear to) take on a life of their own, and what this means for the autonomy of the artist and the work of art.

Being at once a school and at the same time not a school, a workspace, the Werkplaats Typografie (WT) tends to want to comment on its own distinctive form of academic pursuit (by way of, amongst other outlets, these School Journals). And during this sometimes faltering, sometimes successful quest, I’ve often thought about Jacques Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster. Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, not least because it outlines an “intellectual adventure” whereby any hierarchy amongst the students and between them and their tutor dissolves.
Editorial Considerations (fragment), by Maxine Kopsa