16.04.2026 Artist talk with Moe Louanjli
“Aesthetics of Code: Typography as Poetic Event”
16.04.2026 Artist talk with Moe Louanjli
“Aesthetics of Code: Typography as Poetic Event”
at 10–11.30 on Zoom (request link via info@taidekoulumaa.fi)
Can typography render computation sensible?
The lecture reflects on my interdisciplinary practice through a focus on code, typography and computation as aesthetic material. Referring to my recent work Poem Machine: Perpetual Prose, I consider how generative text, programmed structure, MIDI input and ambient sound can turn typography into a live poetic event. Rather than treating typography as a neutral carrier of language, the talk examines how it can make computational processes perceptible through multilingual reading, rhythm, visual order and performance.
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Moe Louanjli is an artist, designer and educator based in Helsinki. Working across code, typography, photography, sound and writing, his practice examines computational aesthetics and the ways digital systems, poetic structures and visual form organise perception. Bringing together research, generative processes and language-based form, his work reflects on how digital systems, microprocessors, artificial intelligence, aerial imagery, speed, and war reshape contemporary experience and the human condition. He graduated from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and holds a PhD in Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art and Design. His work has been presented in exhibitions including GOMA Q at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Thousand Island at Myymälä2 in Helsinki, and Serendipity at Mooroom in Hong Kong.
Image credit: Elaine Wong
