Johannes Wilke
is a visual designer based in Berlin. Services include creative direction, graphic and editorial design. As part of his PhD project at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, he is currently researching the role of aesthetic judgment in the use of everyday objects.
Get in touch:
E-Mail, Instagram, Soundcloud, Are.na, Coin Repository
On display at:
Art Dubai, Artistic gestures and practices of thought at HKW, Artists’ Books for Everything at Weserburg, form Design Magazine, Gestalt Error 409, International Festival of Computer Arts, New York Tech Zine Fair, Pop-Zeitschrift, Projekt Atol, Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, transmediale Vorspiel, Vancouver Art Book Fair
stands for a transdisciplinary approach to literature with an emphasis on poetry, literary theory, and rhetoric as well as the interaction of the arts. The members of the Institute study the various literatures of Europe, including those written in several different Slavic languages, from antiquity to the present. With its diverse teaching methods, active research, and many international connections, the Institute has had a considerable influence on the profile of Freie Universität in the humanities.
Ongoing cooperation on the visual identity for various conferences and workshops.
Market Makers
invites visitors to explore the relationship between fine art, markets, and capital. The exhibition seeks to go beyond the traditional notion of art by exploring the performance of exchange within the artworks, delving deeper into the myths and narratives surrounding both historical and contemporary markets—aiming to shed light on the lore, history, and current tensions between cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (DeFi), banks, and traditional financial mechanisms.
Posters were printed in 59×84cm.
Tegel Media
offers PDFs, clips and podcasts—designed to be enjoyed on your portable device. Readers will find fresh installments on everyday life, contemporary storytelling and mobile art.
Both series, “Tegel Motor Sport” and “Verstärker”, started in 2017 and are in ongoing production. They can be downloaded from the website.
Crypto Aesthetics
is a visual essay focusing on the phenomenology of altcoins and pioneering crypto culture in the early 2010s. A broad overview points out general problems of representability of money economy and technology. It outlines typical cultural themes, where aesthetic motivs of cuteness and transgression as well as aesthetics of the sublime and utility become apparent. The essay has been published online at Gestalt Error 409.
Merkle Root Berlin
is an exhibition during ETHBerlin³ that aims to unearth the roots of Berlin’s blockchain art scene, connecting them with the newcomers, the explorers, and the curious. The show was curated by Stina Gustafsson and María Paula Fernández with participating artists Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Coco Magnusson, Cornelia Sollfrank, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, OMSK Social Club, Sam Hart and terra0.
The key visual refers to the logical structure of a Merkle tree and picks up both utilitarian aesthetics and cryptographic elements.
Posters were printed in 59×84cm.
is a follow-up essay on Sonderbare Gelder and the visual aesthetics of crypto currencies. On one side visual identity and the social practice of aesthetic judgment appear to be a necessary response to unsresolved problems of trust, on the other side it seems to be exactly the aesthetic appearance that is sparking doubts about economic functionality.
The text has been published in the September 2022 issue of form Design Magazine.
NODOUS
is a group show curated by JPG.space at /rosa featuring an exhibition of a selection of works from the NFT platform Folia and a net art archive presentation by panke.gallery and Zentrum für Netzkunst. With a nod to the “nodous”, the exhibition highlights the value of novel curatorial formats, rooted in artworks from across physical and digital realms.
Posters were printed in 50×70cm.
Seed Capital
is a sculpture by terra0 that suggests ways to rethink the economic and ecological relationships between artworks, viewers and institutions. The sculpture functions as a technologically augmented organic system which engages in social and financial contracts with its environment.
The visual design is based on sensor values contained in each data packet stored in a smart contract during the minting process. The smart contract code maps the values into a data visualization, rendering a unique gradient that forms a visual record of the plant’s environment at the time when the NFT was minted.
Seed capital is designed to take place over the course of four exhibitions, the first of which is the Fingerprints DAO booth at Art Dubai 2022.
Natürlich in Camp David
is an essay on the German fashion label Camp David and its general perception in public. Questioning the underlying presumptions of (post-)bourgeois style criticism it emphasizes the potential of unbiased aesthetic judgment as well as arguing for an aesthetic of the “too-much” and the “as-if”.
The essay has been published by Pop-Zeitschrift and is available online.
Temporal Secessionism
is an infrastructure presenting alternative time counting systems that are based on a selection of technological processes, including informational consensus systems, numerological computation and state machine replication algorithms.
Each time is presented on a brutalist aluminium obelisk that is etched with smudged graffiti, meme stickers, and dead crypto stamps. All visual items were composed of collected crypto artefacts and relics from its heyday boom on the market.
The work is accompanied by a digital publication picking up RPG sourcebook aesthetics. It is including texts by Wassim Alsindi, Amy Ireland, Kei Kreutler, Nascent, and an interview with Anna Greenspan and can be downloaded at Plaza Protocol.
Sonderbare Gelder
is a thesis investigating the interrelation of (cypto) currencies and visual communication. Whereas classical currencies are structured and designed following an ideal of the common, the visual design of crypto currencies oscillates between requirements of the general like functionality and reliability and qualities of uniqueness being for example identity offers and aesthetic experience.
Formally the thesis picks up this antagonism, it processes influences of both user and internet cultures and eventually aims at translating digital aesthetics into printed matter.
Part of the project is the ongoing development of a digital archive and daily updates on Coin Repository.
Demian Wohler
is a freelance scenographer. Interested in complex project developments, immersive installations, ghost trains, excessively long evenings and interdisciplinary collective work.
The website highlights the visual expression of his work while remaining typographically clear, subtle and functional.
Klang–Ton–Wort
is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the intersections of literature, music and cultural theory in the work of writer and poet Marcel Beyer. The visual identity recompiles Beyer’s very own notation system into a minimalistic typography. Posters were printed in 59×84cm.
Beecoin
is a project by artists, biologists, engineers, programmers and bees. It assembles human and non-human actors in a Decentralised Autonomous Organization (DAO), with the purpose of caring for bees and their environment. Bee colonies armed with sensors can testify to their own tireless and often unseen reproductive labor. Data becomes the foundation for a crypto-economic system (re)distributing resources.
The corporate design consists of the project website and exhibition design. The exhibition is on display at Haus der Statistik.
Heraldik
is a mixtape cassette compiled by Kurort Spandau circling around contemporary imaginations of the medieval age. Music and artwork resemble classical forms and principles of heraldry being one of the earliest examples of European communication design; they aim to deconstruct and re-assemble them.
The cover art is risoprinted; tapes can be purchased via Tumûltes.
fifteen66.cc
is for music curation, imports of related goods & private sellings founded in 2018.
Its minimalist visual identity consists of the project website, risoprinted business cards and invoice form as well as posters for showcase events.
is Philipp Rohé’s debut LP tape cassette and a part of the “Tumûltes Modular Synthesis Scholarship Programme”. Each track is a result of one specific patch on a 210 HP eurorack-system.
The cover art is risoprinted; tapes can be purchased via Tumûltes.
DOCUMNT2
is Documnt’s second issue of “concrete poetry” and conceptual writing, with an unstable focus on changes in the materiality and temporality of archives, especially those pushed by digitalization.
The layout reflects the aesthetics of contemporary archives—lists and accumulation of files, user interfaces, glitches and missing links. Furthermore it makes its own design process a subject of discussion and displays it openly.
The 208 page book was offset printed in an edition of 500 and released on 2018-07-06 at ACUD MACHT NEU.
Poplar Bluff
is a music project started in 2015. Oscillating between Ambient music and Leftfield, Kraut and Tropicalia they have so far released three LP cassette tapes.
The idea of deconstructing spaces and architectures is formative for the visual design as well as references to DIY production techniques.
The cover art is silkscreen and risoprinted; tapes can be purchased via Tumûltes.
DOCUMNT1
Archive, publishing collective and mixtape series, Documnt is exploring the intersections of (hyper)text, image and sound as they relate to the posthuman body/environment, with a particular focus on the latest possibilities of documentation, code, memory, analog-digital interaction, poetics/politics, experimental poetry and music, repetition, collectivism and sound sculpture explored politically.
The layout is referring to alternative techniques of text production and typesetting like concrete poetry and conceptual writing as well as to their historical tools being type writers, copy machines, scanners and collaging techniques.
The 122 page book was half screen half digitally printed in an edition of 100 and released on 2017-03-25 at ACUD MACHT NEU.
