dadayumn; text screenshot by cxzy
art - others
building utility
Made this using an interactive page designed by Duncan Alexander. You can drag elements around, resize them, and change the colors of the "window" elements by double-clicking them. The image above was made before I saw the note about double-clicking so I worked with the colors the screen gave me initially. Caveat: better screenshot something you like--after I made this I double-clicked a window and was not able to get that same combination of colors again. Also, note that refreshing the page gives you a new selection of shapes and color combos. Minor questions aside, the program is recommended as a hybrid of art, game, experimental platform, and lark--Peter Halley might be especially interested in it as a way to test out some new designs for his paintings.
glitch collection via net and mail
Databent work by two fellow dump.fm users, AGT528 (left) and Scotty2Hotty69, printed out, mailed, and installed in my studio. Scotty's was a purchase; AGT528's is a trade (haven't sent mine yet).
Am thinking here about circulation among screen-based art, "social media," mail, and objects in physical space (could give it a fancy name like "Dispersion" but the reader will be spared--well, maybe "capitalism lite").
I have some work by LoVid, John Pomara, and others acquired by similar means; the beginnings of a modest glitch collection. Cue academic essay with footnotes about creating hierarchies and leveraging them for institutional power; yet, something about these errors of representation being something to aggregate and preserve appeals: a kind of underground network of treasured discards, tokens of a shared belief in the phrase "stop making sense," an invisible city of fifth floor walkups connected by mail and AOL.
Update: See next post. The point of the above jpeg isn't to document two pieces (hence no links to high def details) but as a simple thought experiment to envision how screen based work could translate into a domestic environment. The Umbrico jpeg referenced in the next post does anticipate that you will click through to additional documentation but the jpeg itself says very little beyond communicating a sense of vastness.