ATTIC CHILD

Words & Images from the Koen Shop of Horrors

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New Your City

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The Doctor is in

Variation of Steam-Punkphabet’s letter P into an environment too close for comfort for those left on the island. But comfort is not the issue now, perseverance is. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin… (or the other way around).

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Small isn’t little

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Cyber Freedoms - take#2

Identity Theft, from a series of illustrations for the Daily Heller - Print magazine, visualizing 5 cyber freedoms as only Steven Heller could define. https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-five-cyber-freedoms-two/

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A daily dose of (cyber) freedom

First in a series of illustrations for the Daily Heller at Print magazine, visualizing 5 cyber freedoms as only Steven Heller could define. Paying homage to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most famous State of the Union speech—particularly the paragraphs known as The Four Freedoms, and famously rendered by Norman Rockwell in four consecutive issues of The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. I think you’ll find this new set more Orwellian than Rockwellian.

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-five-cyber-freedoms-1-viktor-koen/

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Bucket list item

Last couple of days to catch “Chuck’s Bucket,” a complicated tale of obsession and, in our case, the perfect inspiration for 21 uniquely conceived and executed projects. Based on the homonymous short story by award winning author Chris Offutt, features impressive work by the MFA Illustration Book Seminar course.

On view through Saturday, February 8 SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street

https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mfa-illustration

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SYLVIA in Queens

Queens Public Library presents selections from the exhibition SYLVIA / AUSCHWITZ, BIRKENAU, MAJDANEK Photographs by Viktor Koen

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY EVENT Living in the Shadows of Auschwitz: 75 Years Later

Sunday, January 26, 2020, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

A conversation with Jody Russell Manning, Program Director for Rowan University’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Queens Public Library at Kew Gardens Hills 72-33 Vleigh Place, Flushing, NY On view: January 26 - Feb 9 / 2020

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-in-the-shadows-of-auschwitz-75-years-later-tickets-89166919657

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Philanthropos(ters)

What better way to celebrate the new academic year than sharing installation shots from the SVA/SNF Philanthropy Poster Project exhibition at the National Greek Opera for the 2019 SNF Conference this June? None.

https://www.snf.org/en/initiatives/snf-annual-international-conference/

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SVA Residensee you next year

With a packed open studios reception last week, it’s curtains for the 2019 SVA Summer Illustration Residency. But as curtains close after so much work, they also open to reveal the multitude of fantastic directions our residents take and make. Other than our stellar faculty, much appreciation goes to our impressive guest lecturers, merci, merci, merci.

http://www.sva.edu/…/summer…/studio-residencies/illustration

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Circonference

Branding and applications for the 2019 SNF Conference last month at the Greek National Opera, SNFCC, Athens. It took a village as they say, and in this case two. Watching the NYC and Athens SNF teams perform miracles never gets old.

https://www.snf.org/en/initiatives/snf-annual-international-conference/2019-snf-conference/

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Waterloom

Illustration for Entrepreneur magazine on alternative blockchain coding applications, distribution of access fabric and saving water. Only to discover that one of the founders behind the article’s main focus lives two floors away. Saving water was closer than I thought.

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S.action

Illustration for the new issue of Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire about Netflix’s bottomless appetite for content and book rights shopping spree. But VacuumCameraMan doesn’t seem worried about the ravenous pace that literature turns into action these days. Maybe he knows something we don’t.

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SNFC C you there

The SNF/SVA Philanthropy Poster Project exhibition opens on June 24, first day of the international 2019 SNF Conference in Athens. The show, installed at the Greek National Opera house lobby, will be up for the full duration of the Summer Nostos Festival and through much of the summer after that. See you there.

register for the conference: https://www.snfestival.org/en/snf-conference/ experience the Nostos Festival: https://www.snfestival.org/en/

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Graphis Gold

The special edition Phenotypes TDC show poster received a gold medal award and will be part of Graphis Poster Annual 2020. The exhibition featured award wining Artphabet, Sciphabet and premiered the much anticipated (especially by me) Steam Punkphabet as works in progress. Thank you Graphis.

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SNF@SVA

Last year’s SNF Philanthropy Poster Exhibition poster at the SVA Gramercy Gallery received a silver medal award and will be part of Graphis Poster Annual 2020. The exhibition featured selected works from the SVA MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program for the Annual Stavros Niarchos Foundation Conference at the Greek National Opera in Athens every June (last year’s Philanthropy Poster Exhibition poster for Athens received an Honorable Mention distinction as well, but who’s counting). Thank you Graphis.

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Cracking the Bird Box

Cover illustration for the Greek edition of Bird Box, designed by non other than Ioannis Karlopoulos. It’s the first taste of a collaboration with Oksi Publications on a series of dystopian authors of note. In book stores now, don’t miss it.

http://www.brainfood.gr/oxy.php?book=1153

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Amoccaliptic

Just a quick thank you note to the overwhelming (too emotional?) traffic, attention and attendance to our panels and tables. Thank you Emma Allen, Matt Lubchansky, Will Varner and Alexandra Zsigmond for this wide spectrum of advice, expertise and honesty you shared on Saturday. More soon.

photos by Karl Heine