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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: ‘Tafel’ is part of the ‘inscriptions’ series of drawing machines.
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.