Carter et al. have developed a software using neural networks to generate handwriting modelled on a sample of your own- I’ve posted the link below to the experiment, which allows you to play around with your own writing.
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/handwriting-with-a-neural-net
Further to my post on handwriting in the digital age, this again raises the question of embodiment and writing on a digital interface. In my post I compare handwriting, which carries the embodiment of individual bodies, to typing, which is a detached deliverance of letters or characters via code. This sits somewhere between those two posts, offering perhaps partially embodied writing, a hybrid. This feeds into ideas around the boundaries of humanity and cyborgism, or where there are any at all 2.
- Carter, S., David, H., Johnson, I., Olah, C. (2017) Handwriting with a Neural Net. Experiments with Google. Available at <https://experiments.withgoogle.com/handwriting-with-a-neural-net> [Accessed 16 Apr 2020]
- Tufekci, Z. (2012). We Were Always Human. In WHITEHEAD N. & WESCH M. (Eds.), Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology (pp. 33-48). Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. Accessibled at < www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgr5j.5> [Accessed 15 Apr 2020]
Anthropology of Handwriting 