Chasers of Promise: Towards Desirable Future(s)
Paulina Trzeciak
Chasers of Promise: Towards Desirable Future(s)
In recent years, the stereotype of the gamer within online culture has been associated with socially inept and often radicalised young men, who spend their days secluded in attic rooms, immersed in the screens of their computers.
The Gamer Keyboard Wall Piece series uses the (visual) language of gamer subculture to give this stereotype a new political identity.
By using the lights behind the keys, the keyboards are transformed from input medium, to output medium. Each illuminated key is used as a pixel in a low resolution screen.
