The Space for Visual Research (SfVR) is a platform for experimental image production. Established as an extracurricular laboratory at the Bauhaus University Weimar back in 2013, it encourages graphic designers to explore alternative modes of making and expand their creative repertoire with alternative modes of making. 

Published by Spector Books, the research lab’s eponymous logbook Space for Visual Research Vol. 2 is now about to be launched in its second edition. An extended version of its predecessor, it combines a new selection of science inspired, visual experiments with a comprehensive series of conversations, essays, and artist contributions. 

Connected by the common objective to open up new vistas in contemporary image making, creative practitioners such as Dirk Fleischmann, Amos Fricke, Ken Hollings, Casey Reas, Cybu Richli, and Martin Venezky open up the space, providing insight into related approaches in the educational, professional and broader socio-philosophical context.

Editors-in-chief: Markus Weisbeck, Anna Sinofzik, Adrian Palko
Graphic Design: Enno Pötschke

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Faculty of Art and Design, Visual Communication 

Since the publication of its first compendium in 2014, the SfVR has gradually enlarged its operations. In a lively exchange and not least thanks to an ongoing series of workshops and exhibitions in Austria, Iran, Taiwan, Korea (PaTi 12.-14.03. 2018), and China, ideas have travelled widely; Grounded in creative practice and a common experimental ethos, global friendships have been formed and fostered. As a natural consequence, the SfVR’s printed home has been expanded to include the voices and visuals of numerous like-minded practitioners.

From: SfVR