K & J

We are a duo of designers/artists working side-by-side and at times together. This site presents excerpts of our parallel and converging process and select resulting work.

Together since 2006, our process-intensive work has been featured in GOOD Magazine, exhibited as part of the 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and most recently as part of “Graphic Design: Now In Production”, a joint exhibition of the Walker Art Center & the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. For more info on our independent pursuits see fromkeetra.com and jk-keller.com.

Excerpts of our established METHODS as they relate to ongoing R&D

In a fight against our control-freak tendencies we invite disruptive change and embrace the unknown.

• Making through Breaking: exploratory testing including tool breaking & material misuse. See Attempt
• Share the conversation: Asking for input from an outside source by pose a question or only tell half of the story. see Chain drawings, Instruct
• Try a translation: say it again, in a different form. man mimics machine, medium mimics medium, person mimics person. See straight line scans, Siri Sound Poems, extrusions, Amazing Mistake
• Force the confusion: Use misunderstanding for progression, allow uncontrolled evolution of meaning, insert the unexpected into accepted forms, shift understood patterns & standards. See Realigning My Thoughts on Jasper Johns, Binary’s Forth Fugue, Slitscan Type, layered wax

We would like to say thank you to:

The Dadaists
The Fluxists
The Futurists
The Coders
The Conditional Designers
The New Aesthetic Debaters
Joshua Walton
James Tichenor
Brett Renfer
The Rockwell Group
Elliott Earls
Piotr Szyhalski
The Process LAB Members
Ellen Lupton
MICA

Special Thanks to Erica Bech for site structuring.