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This is a handwritten version of the Handwriting in the Digital Age, find the original (legible) here. I thought that it might serve as an interesting extra to underline points raised within the original post – does the content of the post strike you differently handwritten?

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 ofContinue reading “Link: AI Generated Handwriting Experiment”

Handwriting interlinks a language with bodily movement. Whilst handwriting shows individuality among persons of a cultural group, I am interested in how we can think about the variance in taught rules between cultures such that writing displays both individual but also specific cultural identity. Primarily, the language you write in reveals a cultural identity. ButContinue reading “Handwriting and Cultural Identity”

“Graffiti is the visual residue of a spatialized performance that speaks to a diverse range of issues from social resistance to enacting identity.” – Tracey Bowen 1 “The possibility of a body that is written upon but also writes”  – Susan Leigh Foster 2 Graffiti is a mode of writing that often carries personal style andContinue reading “Graffiti as a Bodily Act”

Asemic handwriting is a method of writing, perhaps close to drawing, that extends writing beyond the limits of the common established languages created by societies. It is thus much more orientated around the individual, often being more concerned with conveying thought in a more personal, emotive and spontaneous manner. Whilst established writing languages carry semantic,Continue reading “Asemic Handwriting”

“Ink as warm as blood” – Neef (p.116 )1 Writing is an act of directly recording thought from brain to hand in real-time. It is an integral human communication tool – a practise that we all partake in everyday; encoding intentions, information and emotions on a range of surfaces and in a wide range ofContinue reading “Handwriting in the Digital Age”

Hello, welcome to my blog on handwriting ! This blog is part of my UCL module on Anthropology of the Body, it’s a space where I hope to explore its functions as an innately personal recorded bodily output. Here’s some themes and questions that I’d like to explore Why do we do it, what areContinue reading “Introduction”