2022-11-20 –, KiB Auditorium
The Gesturewriter is a unique tool for composing and performing text. The underlying concept is to understand writing utensils as performative instruments, similar to musical instruments! The musical instrument theremin is known for its playability without physical contact. It can be controlled through the gestures of the left and right hand. A typewriter writes characters on a sheet of paper and is used as a writing medium to store text on paper. However, the Gesturewriter combines both the theremin’s gestural interaction and the typewriter’s storing ability. It forms an instrument that brings together performance and writing.
People commented that the Gesturewriter has several bugs and is difficult to use. In this performance lecture, I will prove that they are wrong.
joak is Joseph Oliver Anton Knierzinger and an artist exploring the history and politics of past, present, future and anachronistic media, technology and confusion. Humor and irony is an important method in his undertakings. His compositions, devices, games, installations, interventions, instruments, lectures, performances, performance-lectures, scores and software have been shown in academies, artist-run spaces, community centers, festivals, galleries, hackerspaces, museums, radio station, squats, streets, theaters and universities in Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Germany, Italy, Kugelmugel, Mongolia, Netherlands, Online, Russia and Slovenia. He works on different alogisms and algorithms in Rotterdam and Vienna.