Sites of Electracy: Vier5 at Aristotle’s Lyceum

18th August 2017Books, documenta 14, fonts, Graphic Design, Minus Plato TodayAristotle's Lyceum, electracy, Gregory L. Ulmer, literacy, orality, Postcommodity, Vier5Minus Plato

Paris-based Vier5 are one of the four design studios participating with documenta 14 (the four others are Ludovic Balland, Laurenz Brunner & Julia Born, and Mevis & van Deursen). Their work could be found across Athens, from the iconic floor-text marble slabs to the Map Booklet insert. My first encounter with their distinctive font was on […]

Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: I is for Instructions

4th July 2017Alpha to and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia, documenta 14, Minus Plato TodayAristide Antonas, Aristotle's Lyceum, documenta 14, Plato's Academy, Quinn Latimer, sarah goetz, Stoa Poikile, ZenoMinus Plato

You were very lucky to take this photograph of a wall-text without a work. That said, you still visited several empty universities across the city – the Academy, the Lyceum and the Stoa Poikile. And, like this empty university, there was still activity on the site – a children’s party at Plato’s, an art collective’s […]