Come chat with me
a parody of conversations mediated by technology
Come chat with me is a performance/installation piece that consists of two typewriters placed in front of each other sharing a single piece of paper, mimicking an IM system with analog equipment.
During April and May of 2009 I went out to public spaces in New York armed with two old typewriters and invited people to chat with me and with others using two typewriters that shared a roll of paper. Communication was purposefully made slow and difficult, and somewhat painful and absurd by being mediated by a simple technological device, and this struggle derived in real time face to face conversations between the users, often reflecting on the topic of communication itself.
Come chat with me is a comment on how the technology available to us to make communication easier and faster is also making it dull and empty as we tend to forget the art of conversation and instead send back and forth brief informational messages.
Come chat with me was presented at the ITP Spring Show 2009 at the TISCH School of the Arts in New York University.
