I enjoyed this interview with Cook, about his creative process. All I am saying is don’t use tools as an excuse to not create. Werkman and the concrete poets, there is art by contemporary practitioners, both typewriter artists who use the keyboard as a palette to create artworks, and. Since Cook has about 30 typewriters, I am not saying you shouldn’t be acquiring different tools. He should be a good role model for any one of us who falls in the trap of thinking about a new tool - a new camera, a new lens, a new pen, new paper, new ink - as an excuse to procrastinate about creating. James Cook, a 24-year-old artist from Essex (U.K.) uses typewriters to create some amazing artworks. I hope that if typewriters make a resurgence, it’s because it’s an analog way of creating something - be it a written piece or drawing. Hitecera Retro Black And White Vintage Telephone And Typewriter Poster Wall Art Picture Print Canvas Art Painting Modern Home Office Decoration Poster (12x18inch (30x45cm),Framed) 3499. If you’re on location, you’re looking at what’s in front of you. The whole process of making the art in itself, you have to think.ĭrawing with a typewriter is one of the only ways of making art where you use both hands: You’re typing and you’re moving the cartridge at the same time. Sometimes that leads to more creative outcomes because you can’t delete what you’ve put on the page.
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Anna Bella Geiger, Page from O Novo Atlas parte 1 (1977) (courtesy of the Sackner Archive of Concrete and.
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20 REM Program by Nick Higham 1982 (Commodore Basic), 30 REM and 1988 (GW-Basic/Turbo Basic). I am a West London-based artist who has been exploring old manual typewriters as a tool for making visual art since experimenting.
Here is an extract from the code, complete with GOTOs and GOSUBs (GW-Basic had few structured programming features). With typewriters, there’s more permanent to what you put on paper. Looking Back on 100 Years of Typewriter Art. I had also added the data for The Tabby Cat from Bob’s second book. It’s easy in Microsoft Word to be so pedantic and look at a blank screen. It’s like writing at school: In English class you’d write in your book and you can’t erase what you’ve written.