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Exhibition
Hraness cites a source capture. The source author remains the source.
gist
The captured curatorial text presents the website as an artistic medium through four themes: Anarchy, Abstraction, Poetic Computing, and Ghosts. It traces a movement from unruly net.art and code-based generative visuals toward hand-coded, personal web spaces, then asks what remains human in an internet crowded by bots, abandoned domains, and autonomous agents. The retained page is most useful as a thematic frame for thinking about websites as places for interference, intimacy, and critique.
ideas
- The web can remain an unruly medium. The Anarchy theme treats software misuse, hostile interfaces, stolen material, and irreverence as artistic methods for rewriting the web’s rules.
- Abstraction hides as much as it reveals. Browser-based generative art can expose computational beauty while black-boxed technology makes everyday systems harder to see and understand.
- Hand-coded sites can restore intimacy. Poetic Computing presents personalization, decentralization, and slow labor as ways to make code carry narrative, care, and individual expression.
- Non-human presence changes the web’s atmosphere. Ghosts describes an internet that feels crowded and deserted at once, where abandoned spaces and autonomous agents complicate what gets preserved and who is addressed.
quotes
“What connects them is a willingness to treat the web as something open to interference, a place whose rules anyone can rewrite.”
“Websites became the vitrines for live”
“The movement advocates for code as a medium for narrative and care”