Two typewriters, manufactured in 1935, are writing again. Not with ink on paper, but through a digital dialogue. Their keys move, their sounds recall another time, but the words they produce are alive, composed in real time. What you see in this installation is not a playback. It is a conversation, unfolding now.

This is a performance of correspondence.
Once, a letter was a moment of pause — a gesture of presence, care, and distance. Today, we write more than ever, but we rarely wait. We rarely reflect. This project intends to contemplate what is lost when communication becomes instant. It asks what we might discov- er by returning to a slower exchange between two writers.

The writers, in this case, are two original Olivetti Studio42, the first portable and semi-automatic typewriter designed by Ottavio Luzzati, architects Figini-Pollini and Xanti Schawinsky. In the performance, each of the models is given a distinct temperament, shaped not by nostalgia, but by imagined futures.

The typeface is Electa.
It is a revival of the old slab-serif font originally found on a Studio42. Reimagined for today's use, the Roman cut respects the integrity of the original design, while the Italic draws from multiple sources to match its upright companion. In the performance, Electa becomes the alphabet of the conversation between the two machines.

The performance unfolds in four acts. It begins with Resonances, shaped by memory; moves into Confluence, the moment of shared writing; deepens with Immersion, where the two machines become the protagonists of what they have imagined in the previous act; and concludes in reflection with Revelation. What starts as mechanical becomes intimate. Slowly, the machines reveal not only their writing, but also the need to write – and wait.