KeyWorx: a translocal performance platform
Waag Society, 1997-2003
Sher Doruff will present a retrospective of artist projects from 1999-2003 that experimented with the KeyStroke/KeyWorx application from Waag Society, Amsterdam. The KeyWorx project, initiated in 1997, enabled real time, intermedia, multi-channel interaction over a network. It was one of the first platforms developed to support collaborative patching/processing in translocal performance practice. The interface is dynamically shared between the participating artists, allowing control of all input parameters to anyone logged into a session. Though support for the MacOS artist version of the technology was discontinued in 2004 in a move towards an OSS framework, there is still an active user-base.
Credits: Sher Doruff, Waag Sensing Presence research with diverse artists (Michelle Teran, Isabelle Jenniches, Eric Redlinger, Daniel Vatsky among others)