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Campus
Image Writer
Silvan Leuthold (CH)
The typewriter as a familiar medium for writing text is combined with a computer to become an input/output interface that dictates to the user his/her own portrait as an ASCII image. *ImageWriter* is characterized by the confrontation of the typewriter with the computer and by the encounter of low-tech and high-tech. It illustrates the shortcomings as well as the charm of the predecessor of the modern-day keyboard as an input interface—the battle of the generations, retro-cult and ASCII-art. The end product, entered on the typewriter by the sweat of the typist’s brow, is hardly conceivable independent of the controlling computer; nevertheless, the print-out made by a typewriter differs significantly from a computer print-out.
Source: Silvan Leuthold
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