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== Tafel == | == Tafel == | ||
Artist: | [[File:Alexandre Castonguy Tafel.jpg|400px|thumb|Alexandre Castonguay: Tafel]] | ||
Artist: Alexandre Castonguay | |||
Short description: ''Tafel'' is part of the ''inscriptions'' series of drawing machines. | |||
'Inscriptions' consists in the development of artworks that analyze, inscribe and encode written information. At a time when the written form is undergoing a massive migration to a digital format that promises quick access to vast amounts of data but also shifts the mode of experience and attention given to its contents, the artworks tend to give a tangible form to information, to re-embody the digital through writing at the time of the disappearance of cultural forms perceived as obsolete. | 'Inscriptions' consists in the development of artworks that analyze, inscribe and encode written information. At a time when the written form is undergoing a massive migration to a digital format that promises quick access to vast amounts of data but also shifts the mode of experience and attention given to its contents, the artworks tend to give a tangible form to information, to re-embody the digital through writing at the time of the disappearance of cultural forms perceived as obsolete. | ||
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The uncanny hand gesture of the artist, re-embodied by the drawing mechanism, is an occasion to put into play the contents of these early and original writings. Spurred by the participation of the audience through their texts, the drawing machine is not subjected to their primary transcription but inscribes responses to them. | The uncanny hand gesture of the artist, re-embodied by the drawing mechanism, is an occasion to put into play the contents of these early and original writings. Spurred by the participation of the audience through their texts, the drawing machine is not subjected to their primary transcription but inscribes responses to them. | ||
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