Arno Beck’s art

I am generally not a fan of typewritten art, because at some point it all starts to feel a bit same’y, and the gimmick of using a typewriter as a paintbrush wears off pretty quickly. But these drawings by German artist Arno Beck caught my attention, because it feels like they playfully remix three eras: overtyping keyboard art (early 1900s), the sort of photorealistic smooth shading I most associate with ASCII/​ANSI art (1990s), big pixels from early home videogames (1980s). In case this interests you, in 2018 I gave a 46-minute talk called “The abridged history of having fun with keyboards” that’s a (hopefully fun) walkthrough of this whole space: #art #conference talk #games #marcin wichary #youtube