A Recent History of Writing and Drawing

9th July - 31st August '08

Institute of Contemporary Arts
12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y

'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.

All furniture for the exhibition is designed by Martino Gamper.

A programme of talks and interactive workshops will form an integral part of the exhibition, generating content to be displayed throughout the show.

These events will bring together speakers including Konstantin Grcic and Michael Marriott, who will engage with the technologies of communication as well as involve the public in practical workshops which examine more or less orthodox forms of communication.

For more information and a schedule of the programme of Talks visit www.ica.org.uk