Although the show has been suspend since the opening, it’s been great to participate in this excellent group show, with so many friends and colleagues, at the Indra and Harry Banga Gallery in Hong Kong.

Will post an update as soon as it reopens…

If there is one idea that the visitor should take away from Art Machines, it is that technology is not an impediment to the making of art, but a condition of its possibility. Indeed, the history of modern art is the history of the collaboration between artists and engineers…

Each of the reading machines in Radical of the Vertical Heart 忄 traverses the Chinese lexicon according to its own unique strategy. Unlike alphabetic reading machines (e.g., Automatype) that focus on complete letters, these ‘logographic’ readers analyse the strokes, radicals, and sub-components of characters in order to choose their path. When any of the machines lands on a sensitive word (for example, those which are now illegal to speak in Hong Kong) a warning is issued, and the reader is forced from traditional to simplified Chinese.