Shift Happens: The abridged history of having fun //ith keyboards
With Marcin Wichary
Date: Thursday 11 May 2023
Location: St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
Time: 7–8.30pm BST
To book please visit: https://sbf.org.uk/whats-on/
Typing keyboards and QWERTY have existed for almost exactly 150 years, and for almost exactly 150 years they have been used not just as data entry devices and literary partners, but also as instruments of creative expression. We’ll solve a typewriter mystery, learn the basics of artyping, chat with Eliza and her (its?) friends, figure out the difference between ANSI, ASCII, and PETSCII art, meet the extended family of the Emoji Sheriff – and see what we can learn about ourselves and our relationship with machines in the process.
Marcin Wichary is a design manager at Figma and the author of Shift Happens, the upcoming book about the history of keyboards. He previously worked as a designer at Medium, Google, and Code for America.
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