Artists

Veneta Androva
Raphaël Bastide
Bruno Gola
Kathrin Hunze
Yehwan Song
Shinji Toya

Bruno Gola
Font of Possibilities
Long-term web performance

Art Swap with Raphaël Bastide

Had Raphaël Bastide not been invited to take part in this Art Swap project, his memesque font would have been deleted. This is the beginning of a text he wrote and passed on to Bruno Gola, together with his font files. Memesque was designed for a project that ultimately did not take place. Bastide writes that its typographic design was not truly functional. But this is where Gola repurposes it in a short story about fonts as a language system between humans and machines.

Each file is a small programme that determines the font’s parameters. In Font of Possibilities, Gola directly intervenes in the code to manipulate the font. As a result, the letters disintegrate as the exhibition progresses, slowly dissolving into white space. Even though we can no longer read the text on the website by the end, it is retained in the source code. This draws our attention to the materiality of digital objects, which runs as a process in the background. Here, writing becomes both the content and form of Gola’s work.

Bruno Gola lives and works as a sound artist and musician in Berlin. He is a trained programmer and media artist. His work focuses on developing systems for live audiovisual improvisations and interactive installations. Since 2023, he has been working as a lecturer in the Generative Art/Computational Art class at the Berlin University of Arts.