Peripheral n_2: KEYBOARD
Peripheral n_2: KEYBOARD reflects anew on the keyboard, this strange object which we have beneath our eyes without really seeing it. It explores writing and language and the articulation of the voice and hands and examines their importance for data processing and media classification (images, texts, sounds).
KEYBOARD is about automation, keyboards as primitive interfaces, a tool that makes it possible for us to write, capture, note, structure, communicate, index, research, etc. and to navigate into virtual spaces, in computer games for example, where the four arrows are used to move and other keys are assigned to specific actions. It is one of a series of works exploring material devices that are connected to the computer of the Net-surfer.
Peripheral n_2: KEYBOARD is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
BIOGRAPHY
Net artist, Marika Dermineur focuses on questions/issues/subjects related to the network, the ability (for instance) of a program to produce languages, images or sounds and to effect us. Graduated from la Sorbonne, the Arts D»coratifs and the Arts et M»tiers (Paris), she is a member of the experimental web platform Incident.net a teacher at the University of Rennes 2. She has conducted workshops and lectures about newmedia. Her installations and net art works, such as Keyboard, Googlehouse, The Inhabitants (Impakt production), There! (V2 residence) have been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals: Videoformes 06, “Nuit Blanche” in Roma and Paris 05, “Translation” (Basekamp Gallery, Philadelphia), File festival 05 Sao Paulo, “Bis Repetita Placent” (Espace d’art Contemporain, Ruart), “Download” and “Blackout” (exhibition, Paris) Vancouver’s New Forms Festival 2004, Ars Electronica, Instants Vid»o 04. She won first prize for net art in 2003 in Filmwinter (de), and has received funding from Impakt Online (nl), Turbulence.org (us), La Chambre Blanche (ca), and SCAM.
