2026, Printed circuit boards, microcontroller, mechanical and tactile switches, found furniture, monitor, and software
Typing is an expressive act. When you listen to somebody type, you hear the process of thought unfolding in the cadence of their keystrokes: the small hesitations, the satisfied strikes of the return key, and the sudden regret of rapid backspacing. Neither the traditional QWERTY keyboard nor contemporary word processing tools are designed to capture or represent this expressivity. These interfaces, ubiquitous in our daily lives, produce messages without traces. To intervene in this contradiction, I am fabricating keyboards that use the MIDI protocol to capture the intensity of a typist’s keystrokes and render it on a browser window, placing legibility in conflict with affect and the signifying body. These keyboards become instruments of expression, turning typing into performance, text into score, and language into image. You can try it yourself with any MIDI controller here.
PEFORMANCES & ACTIVATIONS
Recieving my Dictation