EMAILED SHER DORUFF
December 2004

I first met Sher in January 2000 when Motherboard invited her and her colleague, Niels Bogaards, to the Hot Wired Live Art worklab at the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts. We had heard rumours about the Keyworx software (then called Keystroke) and were excited by the concept. I emailed her to ask if it was okay to include Keyworx at the Waag (Society for Old and New Media) in my list of project partners, and she said yes!

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Sher Doruff is a digital artist working in the performative arts. Sher works with interactive technologies in collaboration with electronic composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists and theatermakers. She has worked as artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (CDN), the Internationale Cité des Arts in Paris (F) and at the STEIM foundation in Amsterdam (NL). She is the creative director of the Sensing Presence department of the Waag Society for old and new media in Amsterdam and part of the development team of the KeyWorx (formerly KeyStroke), a distributed, multi-user, multi-channel, cross-media synthesis platform. She is currently a PhD student at the Smart Lab Centre, University of the Arts, London, where her topic is "Connected: an investigation of collaborative creative process in networks".

Sher's websites:
(Project intro)
http://www.smartlabcentre.com/5phd/sdoruff.html
(Research material)
http://www.smartlabcentre.com/phdstudentsite/sher/index.htm

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I also asked Sher if I could refer to her research material in the future, and pointed her to my "Mind, the Gap" site. She suggested that we keep a dialogue going as there several connections between our two research projects.