Alexandra Midal
Professor in design at HEAD – Geneva, Alexandra Midal combines a curating and research activity in design and visual culture. Among others, she has curated: Tomorrow Now: When Design meets Science-Fiction, Pop-Corn: Film & Design, Eames in Hollywood, etc. in museums worldwide. Since 2009, she makes experimental films : Hocus Pocus: Twilight in My Mind, Politique-Fiction, Villa Frankenstein ; Domestic Psycho, Possessed, etc. and in 2019, she had her first solo show at CAPC, Museum of Contemporary art, Bordeaux (France). She is currently making a film about the shakers cult and feminism.
She is the director of the Invisible Film Festival, an International festival of experimental films by designers occurring in a different city every two years: NY, Geneva, Istanbul,…
Her last book Design by Accident: For a New History of Design (Sternberg Press) explores the expanded nature of design, and she is currently working on her next book on Films & Design.
For more , see www.alexandramidal.com