Typetrace
11. April 19h – 05. May 2007 , Ciant Gallery, CZ_Prague
Takumi Endo (JP)
CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies
opening/exhibition
TypeTrace is an interactive application that records all the keyboard strokes you make, similar to Spyware. The application plays back the writing along a timeline just like a movie; the main feature is that it reflects the delay time between each keystroke into various visual representations of the output text. For this version, the more time the writer spends before typing a word, the bigger the font size become. Using this visual translation, the viewer can visually understand the process of each person’s writing experience. All the text inputs are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, and it is used for a text mash-up function that is included in the alpha release of the software (with GPL) on the project website. This is aimed at developing not only the individual piece as an end product, but also to propose a new aesthetics and custom which pays more attention to the process of production than the end result. TypeTrace Kinetic Keyboard (T2K2) is a hardware keyboard that synchronizes with the TypeTrace application. Each T2K2 key is respectively linked with a solenoid, allowing each key to function physically, as the player piano, in accordance with the file running on the application. TYPETRACE is the first in a series of exhibitions at CIANT Gallery entitled Hic sunt leones which is focused on artists coming from non-European countries.
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