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== Tafel == | == Tafel == | ||
[[File:Alexandre Castonguy Tafel.jpg|thumb]] | [[File:Alexandre Castonguy Tafel.jpg|400px|thumb|Alexandre Castonguy: Tafel]] | ||
Artist: Alexander Castonguy | Artist: Alexander Castonguy | ||
Short description: | 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. | ||