Paul Elliman (1961) is a British artist and designer based in London.
His work combines an interest in typography and the human voice, often
referring to forms of audio signage that mediate a relationship
between them. His typeface Found Fount (aka Bits) is an ongoing
collection of found ‘typography’ drawn from objects and industrial
debris in which no letter-form is repeated.Elliman's work has
addressed the instrumentalisation of the human voice as a kind of
typography, engaging the voice in many of its social and technological
guises, as well as imitating other languages and random sounds of the
city including the non-verbal messages of emergency vehicle sirens,
radio transmissions and the muted acoustics of architectural spaces.He
has exhibited in the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Tate Modern in
London, the New Museum and Moma (Ecstatic Alphabets, 2012) in New
York, APAP in Anyang, South Korea, and Kunsthalle Basel. In 2009 his
project "Sirens Taken for Wonders" was commissioned for the New York
biennial Performa09, and took the form of a radio discussion about the
coded language of emergency vehicle sirens, as well as a series of
siren-walks through the city.In 2010 he contributed a series of
whistled versions of bird song transcriptions by Olivier Messiaen for
the show We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope, at Marres Centre for
Contemporary Art, Maastricht.
His work combines an interest in typography and the human voice, often
referring to forms of audio signage that mediate a relationship
between them. His typeface Found Fount (aka Bits) is an ongoing
collection of found ‘typography’ drawn from objects and industrial
debris in which no letter-form is repeated.Elliman's work has
addressed the instrumentalisation of the human voice as a kind of
typography, engaging the voice in many of its social and technological
guises, as well as imitating other languages and random sounds of the
city including the non-verbal messages of emergency vehicle sirens,
radio transmissions and the muted acoustics of architectural spaces.He
has exhibited in the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Tate Modern in
London, the New Museum and Moma (Ecstatic Alphabets, 2012) in New
York, APAP in Anyang, South Korea, and Kunsthalle Basel. In 2009 his
project "Sirens Taken for Wonders" was commissioned for the New York
biennial Performa09, and took the form of a radio discussion about the
coded language of emergency vehicle sirens, as well as a series of
siren-walks through the city.In 2010 he contributed a series of
whistled versions of bird song transcriptions by Olivier Messiaen for
the show We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope, at Marres Centre for
Contemporary Art, Maastricht.
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