neo-Manuscripts

The era of man­u­scripts is long gone. How­ev­er a cer­tain poet­ry and beau­ty emanates from the ges­tures intrin­sic to cal­lig­ra­phy and seems to lend a rare and pre­cious char­ac­ter to man­u­scripts, as a cal­li­graph­ic work is unique and can­not be repli­cat­ed iden­ti­cal­ly. The con­cept of auto­mat­ed cal­lig­ra­phy is crys­tallised halfway between ances­tral prac­tices and con­tem­po­rary tech­nolo­gies, replac­ing hand ges­tures with mechan­i­cal move­ments. The CNC can imi­tate these ges­tures with pre­ci­sion and exe­cute more com­plex move­ments that are impos­si­ble to achieve man­u­al­ly. The automa­tion of cal­lig­ra­phy is an attempt to give hand­writ­ten texts new aspects of repro­ducibil­i­ty, pre­ci­sion and effi­cien­cy, while try­ing to pre­serve the aura of cal­lig­ra­phy, with its dis­tinct move­ments, tools and aesthetic.