I read this a while ago… “The early internet made getting lost feel good. Build ways to bring that feeling back. Curate an internet that makes you want to take the time to explore more — not less.” Since reading, I have made it my purpose to introduce intentionality in the ways I use the web.
Think about the ways Wikipedia is used. Hypertext is an integral part of the browsing experience. You can infinitely explore ideas. Clicking a piece of blue text takes you to a related but new universe. In this way, rabbitholes emerge. There is a sort of “one-ness” to it - all things are sub-ideas under a larger, broader idea.
What does a physical manifestation of this look like? How can we interact with hyperlinks in real life? In what ways can we conceptualize “embodied hypertext”? This is what I hope to explore in this exhibition. It touches on themes of curiosity, “one-ness” / interconnected knowledge, democratization of information, and the joys of getting lost.
I deeply enjoy multimedia forms of making and this exhibit will capture that:
- Stop motion film
- The life of a hyperlink, or an adjacent idea. I haven’t thought about this too deeply yet.
- Physical hardware
- Tactile experiences of touching something and it linking/creating a ripple effect to another thing
- Interactive internet art
- Touchdesigner vibe? Something that can be projected which people can interact with (look into projection mapping)
- Community building aspects / Live performance
- Fun games to get friends to interact — Wikipedia races, etc. I want this exhibit to also feel like an event where an open discourse about internet culture, knowledge consumption, etc. emerges
- I also want to experiment with live performance aspects!
Ideas from Dean Robles
Track history of links → tree formation → spiderweb of things
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Here is hyperlink-exhibition-progress for accountability purposes!