The Absurd Translation
Translate a text into a language you don't speak. Without a dictionary.
Workshop for Potential Life
The OuViePo creative constraints
Translate a text into a language you don't speak. Without a dictionary.
One full day without any screen. From wake-up to bedtime.
Scroll through your contacts. Call someone you haven't spoken to in over a year.
Choose a website. Paint it by hand. Freeze the digital in matter.
Draw the path of an email. Compare your drawing to the actual traceroute.
Manually back up an element from your digital life. Understand what you keep.
Introduce a plausible false element into a group. Reveal within twenty-four hours.
Create a website with a single concept. The URL is the title of the work.
Recover an old PC. Install Linux. Discover that obsolescence is software.
Use an AI for a week. Document everything. The gap is the work.
Create an image pixel by pixel in a spreadsheet. Each cell is a pixel.
Open an old file or system file. Analyze its metadata like an archaeologist.
Write the HTML/CSS of a web page... by hand, on paper.
Use the terminal (cmd/bash) to create a code or data artwork.
Find an image online. Re-request it from an AI. Compare.
Export your browser cache. Print everything. That's your self-portrait.