Arja Karhumaa
I am a graphic designer and text artist, and Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design. I am the founder and director of Centre for Text Margins – Tekstien marginaalien keskus at Aalto ARTS. I’m also co-founder of the experimental publishing collective Multipöly.
My work spans across typography, design, and experimental writing and across both poetry and academia. I am always curious about unseen currents within contemporary visual communication, and I want to seek modes of diffractive and sustainable academic practice beyond commercial interest.
I'm into language and typography, publication as art/design practice, and redefining communication design in the context of new materiality. All of these areas are visible in my artistic doctoral research ·¡±èä/¾±²µ±ð²Ô±ð²õ¾±²õ (2021) featuring the bookwork Epägenesis: Katalogi X (2020), a catalogue of material and conceptual writing.