Typo is an interactive experience centred on a vintage typewriter that has a life of its own. Animated by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), it writes poetry through dialogue with its human audience.

The mechanical typewriter is an anachronism from a bygone era, yet it remains a potent symbol of mechanisation and progress in art and literature. By splicing together the digital and the analogue, new life is brought into the machine, turning it into a primary performer, capable of responding to its surroundings and creating of its own accord. Through its exploration of AI, Typo prompts its audience to question originality, and to grapple with their views on algorithmically generated art, compared to pieces crafted entirely by human minds and hands. When poems are a product of user input, software, and a vast digital library of existing literature, who is the artist?

Typo offers moments of wonder and playfulness, as audiences interact with an enigmatic machine in a variety of live performances and experience the often vague and overly technical world of AI in a tangible way. No longer a simple tool, Typo takes a role of autonomous co-creator alongside its audience.