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.@artangel & @V_and_A Late feat the twitter typewriter @typertweet

Friday 28 May 2010, 18.30–22.00, Admission free

Dressing up, summery drinks in the garden, giant speed scrabble, crossword hunts, legendary Peachy Coochy presentations, DJs and films. Inspired by Artangel’s The Concise Dictionary of Dress now running at Blythe House, the V&A’s working store of its collections,the evening plays with ideas about the meaning of words, collections, dress and how we feel about what we wear…

Typertweet, Grand Entrance
Interact to make a live dictionary! Typertweet sets out to overcome the transience of online communication and make the actual message important again. The unique typewriter has been programmed to turn digital real-time messages from twitter into the printed word. Your tweets will become a crowd-sourced dictionary of new definitions of the words from The Concise Dictionary of Dress which are: ARMOURED, COMFORTABLE, CONFORMIST, CREASED, ESSENTIAL, FASHIONABLE, LOOSE, MEASURED, PLAIN, PRETENTIOUS, TIGHT.

Add your own definition or usage of one of the words by simply sending a 140 character tweet to @typertweet and add the hashtag #vamlate at the end.

For example: @typertweet PLAIN: without whipped cream, icing, cherries or chocolate sprinkles #vamlate

Typertweet concept, hardware and electronics by Benjamin Tomlinson

Twitter integration by Greg Reed

Event concept  and management by Katy Beale