[spectre] TAKUMI ENDO AT NEW CIANT GALLERY IN PRAGUE

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TAKUMI ENDO ON SHOW AT NEW CIANT GALLERY IN PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

TAKUMI ENDO /JP/ - http://www.inexhale.net, http://www.phonethica.net - 
TYPETRACE - 11.04.2007 - 05.05.2007 - CIANT GALLERY - PRAGUE - KRIZKOVSKEHO 
18 - http://www.ciant.cz/gallery  (under construction)

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. CIANT Gallery is a pioneer project in context of the Czech 
Republic: first ever exhibition space dedicated to the interaction of arts, 
sciences and new technologies, powered by the International Centre for Art 
and New Technologies, http://www.ciant.cz.

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