An experimental publishing project for essays, digital art, electronic literature, speculative design & more :: Run by @irLhumanities in collab w/ @life_x_code
The New River journal collection has launched at The NEXT! 158 works of born-digital art and writing dating from 1996 that you can experience. The lab has preserved the Flash works to make early works accessible @eliterature@CASatWSUthe-next.eliterature.org/col…
Somewhere btwn @umd_AADHum, searches, 15 student projs a gazillion writing/service tings, this happened. And I am so grateful. Thanks to our awesome contributors to Cassandra & Andrew for reminding me that this, too, is work that needs to be done | @awwsmith_@frolickingrogue
Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Marisa Parham's (@amplify285) Let Us Be Weightless
Parham reverse-imagines the materiality of (our) world’s undersea infrastructure as a circum-Atlantic story about humans, technology, & sea creatures🌊
Link ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
there are lots of things i loved about working on this exhibition - one of them was definitely getting to host @kalyani_tupkary's brilliant speculative design work! 🥳 always a pleasure to be in conversation with her work.
Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Kalyani Tupkary's (@kalyani_tupkary) two heirlooms
Tupkary explores the natural forms of the kadipatta and conch to tease out the bonds between people, cultures, & objects across space time 🌿
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Today we're spotlighting Fred Wordie's Your Life in Emoji from #MaterialConditions 01
Wordie constructs a web experiment that challenges people to tell stories about their past, present and future through random Emoji 😄
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Wordie's prompts were "We can remember our entire lives from the moment we were born" and "There are no longer writing systems and all storytelling is oral"
You can get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…#MaterialConditions#PromptGenerator
Super fun to share this small piece of net art alongside the Material Conditions 01 exhibit at @salt_codes!
and more is coming to the story previewed in this project… 🌴
#MaterialConditions
Today's spotlight is Andrew W. Smith's (@awwsmith_) Histree from #MaterialConditions 01
Smith constructs an interactive collage to offer glimpses of a world in which trees become the primary keeper of history across generations 🌲🌳
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Kalyani Tupkary's (@kalyani_tupkary) two heirlooms
Tupkary explores the natural forms of the kadipatta and conch to tease out the bonds between people, cultures, & objects across space time 🌿
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Today's spotlight is Andrew W. Smith's (@awwsmith_) Histree from #MaterialConditions 01
Smith constructs an interactive collage to offer glimpses of a world in which trees become the primary keeper of history across generations 🌲🌳
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Smith's prompts were "There are no longer writing systems and all storytelling is oral" and "All plants have perfect memory and can communicate with humans"
You can get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…#MaterialConditions#PromptGenerator
ALT A sticky note with the text "There are no longer writing systems and all storytelling is oral"
ALT A sticky note with the text "All plants have perfect memory and can communicate with humans"
Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Shristi Singh's Do You See, A Face On The Horizon? 🌅
Singh writes of parallel universes, other worlds, & alternate realities to render ecological disaster through a moment of personal disaster
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Julia V. Pretsfelder's (@usuallyprets) Inhabited (free instant)
Pretsfelder mingles words freely with imaged compositions to meditate on personal loss and celestial navigation💫
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…
Pretsfelder's prompts were "Everyone must publish a personal story on their birthday" and "All planets in the milky way are habitable and there a free instant teleportation devices between them"
Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…#MaterialConditions#PromptGenerator
Today we're spotlighting Daniel Lichtman's The Raisin Truck Makes Raisins from #MaterialConditions 01
Lichtman's virtual 3D world telescopes nonlinearly across time with a narrative that calls both cosmic & material truths into question
Check it out ⇢ materialconditions.salt.code…