A Recent History of Writing and Drawing
A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, 2008
July 9th – August 31st 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts - London
An exhibition by Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich
Furniture by Martino Gamper
‘A Recent History of Writing and Drawing’ is an interactive exhibition which explores the creative potential of graphic technologies.
Conceived by designers Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, the exhibition sees the ICA’s lower gallery transformed into a workspace where a number of machines, developed to enable writing and drawing, exist. Together these machines present a range of techniques from chalk on board, to holes punched in paper and images projected on screen.
The show on a whole consists of four individual exhibits including, ‘Dots on Demand’, a workstation with a very simple graphic interface which invites visitors to type in their own sentences and then feed a sheet of paper of their choice into the cutter and see their sentences cut out. Visitors will be able to take their own poster home as a souvenir, while copies will also be displayed within the gallery.
Photo: ©Marcus Leith
