NORM is not an art collective easily fit into words. Go look for yourself.
As part of the Automatic Type Design 3 conference at Atelier national de recherche typographique / École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy, NORM presented a show at My Monkey Gallery.
Part of the fun of attending was talking about the gridfont like machine that made shapes just a few years after Letter Spirit (which is what brought me to town). We had an excellent set of conversations about the work.
We had fun screwing around.
And we got a NORM poster signed. The poster is a listing of the top 30 or so words found in English. The observer (or reader) supplies all of the meaning. The poster is assembled by algorithm. The work says something very deep about semantics, syntax, and current approaches to AI/ML.
