do you dream (2017)
installation/illustration. typewriter, pigment, paper
gallery installation view.
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a very jokingly literal take on the name of the book do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick in the 1960s.
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in the context of this project, the typewriter is no longer a letter-typing device. the routine of typing in perfectly formatted rows is interrupted, and the machine is given a new task – to draw from an artist’s perspective. we have encountered scenarios where glitched printers start printing unidentifiable overlaid characters, where the machine is taking control of its own fate. i would like to manually recreate this scenario on a typewriter, which is basically the analog version of a computing machine, an analog machine instead of an android.
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when a typewriter does not write, is it still a typewriter? when it starts weaving patterns, could it start dreaming too?
