Typographical Labor, Printing, and Property
In the early 1970s, the Detroit Printing Co-op was open to anyone who was willing to learn to operate typesetting and offset printing machinery. The first English translation of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle was printed there. In this talk, Aubert will present recent projects and discuss the relevance of cooperative printing in Detroit in the 1970s.
Danielle Aubert works with Lana Cavar and Natasha Chandani as part of the design group CLANADA. She was the recipient of a two-year fellowship at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of 16 Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel (Various Projects, 2006) and Marking the Dispossessed (Passenger Books, 2015) and coauthor of Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit (Metropolis Books, 2012). She is assistant professor of graphic design at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars take place in 1100 Architecture and Design Studios, 845 West Harrison Street.
2015/16 Public Seminar Series
Deepcuts (Hiddentracks)
This inaugural seminar series introduces a year-long investigation into expanded forms and counter-strategies for contemporary design practice, taking its cue from genres and formats of recorded pop music. In rock and pop music, deep cuts refer to those tracks on an album which don’t fit the constraints for a commercial single. A deep cut doesn’t enter mainstream radio rotation, but is rather an “album-oriented” form in which there is greater latitude for experiment and duration.
* Free and open to the public.
