• Nuit Blanche

• Cloître des Récollets, Metz
• Video installation proposed by Lab’Bel in collaboration with Nuit Blanche Metz.

The History of the Typewriter recited by Michael Winslow (2009)
HD-Film (RED) on BluRay (20’52)
First, the original sounds of 62 typewriters of different times, countries and technologies
were recorded.
Then, the actor Michael Winslow reproduced a selection of these sounds in chronological
order, tracing a temporary journey through almost 100 years of history and creating this
way an homage to the sound qualities of the typewriter and its former presence in the
office.

Ignacio Uriarte
Ignacio Uriarte was born in 1972 in Krefeld, Germany, and raised there. From 1992
to 1995 he studied Business Administration in Madrid and Mannheim and worked since
then for corporations such as Siemens, Canon, Interlub and Agilent Technologies in
Germany, Spain and Mexico. Parallel to his administrative work, he studied audiovisual
arts at the Centro de Artes Audiovisuales in Guadalajara, Mexico from 1999 to 2001 and
quitted his last serious fulltime-job in November 2003, dedicating himself since then to
what he calls ‘office art’. Since 2007 he lives and works in Berlin.