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01.05.2022
Barbara - a tale of transformation
(30 pc.)
paper Colorit Dolphin Grey 80g/m2
method Risograph
colors Riso Green & Black
fonts Apple Chancery, Babaric Numbers
work for Garðar Eyjólfsson
collaborator(s) Garðar Eyjólfsson

Barbara is a design fiction, set in the near future when a young Barbara decides driven by technological advancement to grow fur all over their body to rebel against the ethics of the fast fashion industry, eventually becoming more than human. Being confronted with the world around them, Barbara loses themselves in daydreams and fantasies of unstoppable growth, continuously confronted with their father's influence.

The illustrations extend the text by Garðar Eyjólfssonand and allow insights into the perspective of a young rebel-minded. The drawings continuously depict processes of growth and transformation which interact with the words of the novel as an entrance into the hairy world of Barbara.

Karlsruhe: 30.12.2024 – 15:50:27
Reykjavík: 30.12.2024 – 14:50:27
OTHER BOOKS:
Eine chaotische Videoanalyse zum Verständnis rechter Formate auf Youtube (A chaotic video analysis on politically right video formats on Youtube)
Landscape for the Chosen Ones
Heapology
Barbara - a tale of transformation
How to Share the Dancefloor
This is a Good Place
How to be moved by Art
Inhabitants
Questions
Potential Spaces
About
Collectives

inactive
2018 – 2022 Nofoundry.xyz (1/many) Co-founder
2019 Saturday Type Fever Graphics & Concept
2020 Saturday Type Fever II Concept

active
since 2021 Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (1/5) Community
since 2022 Nordic Noise (1/6) Curatorial research
since 2022 Bizarre Image (1/2) Special Effect Media

Selected Free Projects

2016 Refugee World Bank Super(Design)Fiction
2017 New Rage with Riefka El Habachi
2017 NoFoundry.xyz Coded old website
2018 C-E-R-N BACHELOR PROJECT
2019 From Hawaii to Eternety video essay
2019 Teenage Boy Bible a code generated book
2019 Partir, c'est mourir un peu video essay (I fell in a hole)
2020 The Cymera Family Organisation Super(Design)Fiction
2020 Relicts of Time beyond the Clock with Sonja Schwarz
2020 Super(Design)Fiction MASTER THESIS
2021 The Icelandic Foreign Legion MASTER PROJECT
2021 Stofan community space
2024 About Fighting the Fear (of the World) MASTER PROJECT (Diplom)

my POSTERS

Selected Commissions

2017 Questions? took part with Laurine Haller & Sun Young Oh
2019 Potential Spaces publication with Katrin Rüll
2022 LungA Festival Graphics with Gréta Þorkelsdóttir
2023 It's always nice to be wanted Typography and Lettering
2023 Landscape for the Chosen Ones

Selected Clients

IS
> The Nordic House Reykjavík
> Iceland University of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands)
> LungA Art Festival
> Hafnarborg Hafnarfjörður Center for Culture and Fine Arts

DE
> University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe)
> ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media)
CV

Education

2024 Master in Communication Design & Media Art (Diplom)
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design


2021 Master in Design
MA Design "Explorations & Translations"
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík


Internships

2017 Studio Katja Gretzinger internship
2020 Studio Garðar Eyjólfsson internship
2022 LungA Festival internship

Teaching

2022 Community Publication Making - "Inhabitants"
MA Design "Explorations & Translations", LHÍ Reykjavík

2023 Community Publication Making - "Heapology"
MA Design "Explorations & Translations", LHÍ Reykjavík

2023 Community Publication Making - "Whales"
BA Product Design, LHÍ Reykjavík

Contact

mail hi@janoschkratz.eu
insta janoschkratz.eu

I speak German and English
I code in HTML, CSS, jquery, javascript, PHP, VVVV, processing
fav books

1 An Apartment on Uranus Paul B. Preciado
2 Caliban and the Witch Silvia Federici
3 Flights Olga Tokarczuk
4 Solaris Stanisław Lem
5 Comedia Dante Alighieri
6 Die Phsysiker Friedrich Dürrenmatt
7 Der Nachbar Franz Kafka
8 The Blue Fox Sjón

fav animes

1 Akira movie
2 Neon Genesis Evangelion show
3 Night on the Galactic Railroad movie
4 Jin-Roh movie
5 Ghost in the Shell movie
6 Princess Mononoke movie
7 Nausicaä movie
8 Cowboy Bebop show
9 Mushishi show