Displaced Memories — Martina Chilardi

Literally Revolutionary_

Research Project

2025

Literally Revolutionary is a research project investigating how typography can evolve beyond its traditional role through interactive and generative media.

Rather than functioning solely as language, typography becomes spatial, performative and experiential, capable of communicating through movement, interaction and time.

Literally Revolutionary is a research project investigating how typography can evolve beyond its traditional role through interactive and generative media.

Rather than functioning solely as language, typography becomes spatial, performative and experiential, capable of communicating through movement, interaction and time.

Literally Revolutionary is a research project investigating how typography can evolve beyond its traditional role through interactive and generative media.

Rather than functioning solely as language, typography becomes spatial, performative and experiential, capable of communicating through movement, interaction and time.

Process

The research developed from a background in graphic design and typography before expanding into interactive media through TouchDesigner. Drawing from practical installations, theoretical references and Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Message, the project explores how emerging technologies redefine both the form and function of typography.

Tools & Technologies

TouchDesigner

Generative Typography

Interactive Systems

Academic Research

Audience Experience

Presented both as an academic research project and public lecture during Pixel Forest Dispatch in Berlin, the work invited audiences to reconsider typography as a living visual system rather than a static graphic element. Discussions often centred on how interaction fundamentally transforms the way written language can be perceived and experienced.

Distance