Video: Key to key. Keyboard portraits from WBK
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It was at the time of Spectrum and its many clones that the keyboard was equated to a computer - it was in it that the processor and the motherboard were located. Now she is an ordinary tool that can be changed without any problems almost every month. Here are the dumped keyboards australian artist WBK (Works by Knight) and uses in its fine arts.
In any city, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of keyboards are thrown away every year - this device is not so expensive and, moreover, quickly deteriorates. Therefore, it is not surprising that every now and then there are artists who use these old computer accessories in their work.
Examples include the massive work of Sarah Frost or the celebrity portraits by Australian author Works by Knight, also known by the acronym WBK.
Works by Knight has agreements with computer hardware stores, repair shops, and garbage disposal companies. These organizations regularly supply him with old keyboards, elements of which the artist uses in his work.
The artist takes keys of different colors and tones and uses them to create portraits of famous people, living or already departed.
For example, actors Hugh Laurie and Ryan Gosling, rock musician Bono, rappers Jay-z and 2pac, fighter against apartheid in South Africa Nelson Mandela, the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong and many other popular personalities at different times became the objects of WBK creativity.
Works by Knight believes that they have all had a positive impact on the development of information technology in their own way. Someone with their creativity contributed to the spread of torrent trackers and other file-sharing networks, someone with their activities stimulated the work of news sites. And how many keyboards were broken when discussing all these famous personalities on the Internet!
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