On January 28, the world premiere of Future Fragments took place at Mist Bookstore (薄霧書店). The publication is the outcome of the year-long Future Fragments program — a think tank exploring the intersections of technology and art, artificial intelligence, and contemporary artistic practices. The program unfolded through lectures, meetings, and an academic seminar, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and research.
The launch gathered an audience interested in the evolving relationship between art and emerging technologies. The discussion focused on creative processes, the role of AI in artistic practice, and the future of collaboration between artists and technological systems.
The event was made possible thanks to the support of Instytut Adama Mickiewicza through the Networks programme.
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FF Books: I'll Be Your Mirror & Future Fragments Frame
We conclude the 2025 edition of Future Fragments with the publication of I'll Be Your Mirror — a reflective, essayistic exploration of technology as the contemporary mirror. Inspired by Lou Reed’s lyrics, the book investigates how technology does not seduce but reveals; how images produced by cameras, algorithms, and artificial intelligence become a new organ of perception, acting beyond the human eye.
It traces the shifting economy of visuality — from Flusser’s technical images and Farocki’s operational images to Kate Crawford’s metabolic visual systems. As vision migrates into machines, technology becomes a mirror that exposes who we are: our desires, our fears, and the things we refuse to see.
I'll Be Your Mirror is also a meditation on the relational nature of AI, on the ontology of things, and on the shadow side of technological development, where innovation meets power, surveillance, and mimetic rivalry. The book weaves these fragments of contemporary thought into a single reflective surface — a mirror without a soul, helping us see ourselves anew.
The Future Fragments Frame publication features abridged versions of the lectures presented as part of the Future Fragments program in 2025. The texts were distilled and condensed by Michał Wisniewski.
Letters & Spirit is an artistic research book exploring how typography transforms in the age of interfaces, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
The publication draws conceptual inspiration from The New Typography by Jan Tschichold. Nearly a century after its publication, this project proposes a renewed reflection on what “new typography” might mean today. If Tschichold responded to the industrial modernity of the 1920s, Letters & Spirit responds to platform capitalism, algorithmic systems, and generative AI. The question returns with urgency: how should form respond to its technological moment?
The book begins with a simple premise: what happens to meaning when design decisions are increasingly delegated to systems? If every form is a decision, and every decision is a form of power, typography becomes more than visual arrangement — it becomes a political, cognitive, and ethical field.
Moving between essay, case study, visual experiment, the publication combines theoretical research with typographic exploration, treating the page as both argument and interface. Letters are not neutral carriers of content; they are active agents within a broader cultural metabolism.
Expanding beyond its initial concept, Letters & Spirit includes invited contributions from designers and thinkers reflecting on their relationship to contemporary tools and post-AI aesthetics. It integrates archival references and research notes, making the thinking process visible rather than concealed.
Formally, the book experiments with structure, hierarchy, and reading time, questioning inherited conventions of layout and authorship. Typography here is not illustration — it is method.
Developed through international lectures, workshops, and research visits, the project operates both as a publication and as a platform for dialogue. It does not nostalgically return to modernism, nor does it uncritically embrace acceleration. Instead, it proposes a contemporary re-reading of typographic responsibility in an age of automated form production.
Project Letters and Spirit. New Typography realized as part of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
