Icarus Proudbottom’s Typing Party

At Moving Image Exhibitions in New York City, Icarus Proudbottom’s Typing Party is presented as a live-format exhibition work that treats typing as both performance and moving-image apparatus. The program frames a lineage of screen culture through featured figures including Jim Henson, Yuri Norstein, Lu Yang, and Todd Haynes, placing handmade illusion, animation craft, digital bodies, and American independent cinema in the same room. Its cultural significance in NYC is less about premiere pedigree than about context: the city as an ongoing laboratory for media art. One clear takeaway is how it makes authorship feel collective, even when the medium is language.