key pad pomes is an ongoing collaborative project (since 2002) with Lucas Ihlein which involves collecting and documenting SMS text messages, letrasetting each message and producing a series of silk screen printed postcards.

We hosted a workshop at the 2004 Newcastle Young Writers Festival, in which participants were invited to process some mobile phone text messages through "old media". On offer were typewriters, letraset, rubberstamps etc.

A selection of the resulting pieces were exhibited at the This is Not Art zine fair.

At the workshop we also featured the ongoing huge sms blog of Australian artist Nancy Mauro-Flude.

From the festival programme:

Intimate Conversations
SMS text messaging informs and alters our use of language. How? This workshop locates newer mobile technologies on a continuum with clunkier writing machines - electric pens, typewriters and computers. Thinking about how the miniature space of the mobile phone text pad changes the way we write and communicate. This workshop ponders the relationship between technologies and writing.
With: Jane Simon and Lucas Ihlein.