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Preceding Emptiness: Alternative Arabic Typographic Technologies
SessionArt Gallery
DescriptionPreceding Emptiness was created by xLab co-founders designer Levi Hammett, architect Mohammad Suleiman, together with artist Hind Al Saad, and designer Fatima Abbas. Featured at the VCUarts’ Language-as-Machine exhibition, and the ARS Electronica Festival - the work is the latest light installation in a series that imagines alternative typographic histories by constructing unconventional language-display technologies. It celebrates the formal potential of the Arabic language through bright, blinking words cycling through the segmented display. The words on rotation display the Arabized terms of code statements for Arabic software tools that were first developed by Arab scientists and researchers in the 1980s.
Artists
Levi Hammett
xLab / VCUArts Qatar
Mohammad Suleiman
xLab / VCUArts Qatar
Hind Al Saad
xLab / VCUArts Qatar
Fatima Abbas
xLab / VCUArts Qatar
Event Type
Art Gallery
TimeWednesday, 31 July 202411:00am - 5:00pm MDT
LocationExhibit Hall F
Session Time & Location
Sunday, 28 July 20241:30pm - 5:00pm MDTExhibit Hall F
Monday, 29 July 202411:00am - 5:00pm MDTExhibit Hall F
Tuesday, 30 July 202411:00am - 5:00pm MDTExhibit Hall F
Wednesday, 31 July 202411:00am - 5:00pm MDTExhibit Hall F
Thursday, 1 August 202411:00am - 3:30pm MDTExhibit Hall F
Interest Areas
Arts & Design
New Technologies
Keywords
AI
Machine Learning
Robotics
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