Remington Releases the Standard Number 2 Typewriter

One of the world’s first commercially successful typewriters, the Remington and Sons Standard Number 2 typewriter featured a QWERTY keyboard, which it helped to establish as the standard to this day. Its introduction revolutionized written communication. The typewriter would allow and inspire artists to create intricate, repetitive and pattern-based compositions through typed characters, offering a precursor to the digital generative art of today. The typewriter’s influence on artistic expression, particularly in the realms of concrete poetry and text-based art, helped shape the trajectory of generative art by introducing the concept of using machines and rules to generate visually striking and conceptually layered compositions.