Miguel Gallego
Bio: Miguel Gallego is a sound and media artist. He develops strategies to reveal how the devices, protocols, and lexicons of contemporary discursive regimes structure and condition thought. He has exhibited at The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, theBlanc, and TRAMPS, and has performed at Dia Chelsea.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Typing is an expressive act. When you listen to somebody type, you hear the process of thought unfolding in the cadence of their keystrokes: the small hesitations, the satisfied strikes of the return key, and the sudden regret of rapid backspacing. Neither the traditional QWERTY keyboard nor contemporary word processing tools are designed to capture or represent this expressivity. These interfaces, ubiquitous in our daily lives, produce messages without traces. To intervene in this contradiction, I am fabricating keyboards that use the MIDI protocol to capture the intensity of a typist’s keystrokes and render it on a browser window, placing legibility in conflict with affect and the signifying body. These keyboards become instruments of expression, turning typing into performance, text into score, and language into image.
Miguel Gallego
Compositions for a new writing machine, 2026
Printed circuit boards, microcontroller, mechanical and tactile switches, found furniture, monitor, and software
Courtesy of the artist
First Year Exhibition
Miguel Gallego
The soul imagined at age six, 2025
Single-board computer, ham radio and audio software, projector, speakers, and microphone
Courtesy of the artist