Constraint #062
The Word of the Day
A word drawn at random. Slip it into every conversation of the day. Without anyone noticing.
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The OuViePo creative constraints
Constraint #061
The Unknown Dish
A dish you've never made. No recipe. With your instinct.
Constraint #060
The Mailed Letter
By hand. In an envelope. With a real stamp. For someone 30 minutes away from you.
Constraint #059
The Silent Meal
Dine together. No phone. No music. Just you two and the food.
Constraint #058
The Imposed Discovery
An unknown artist. One week. A work in response.
Constraint #057
The Google Painting
Choose a website. Paint it by hand. Freeze the digital in matter.
Constraint #056
The Irrational Walk
Have yourself photographed in an impossible position. No digital manipulation.
Constraint #055
Merda d’Artista
Shit in a jar. Label it. Preserve it. It's a work.
Constraint #054
The Drawn Network
Draw the path of an email. Compare your drawing to the actual traceroute.
Constraint #053
The Ritual Backup
Manually back up an element from your digital life. Understand what you keep.
Constraint #052
Blind Drawing
Draw an object without looking at your paper. Eyes on the object, hand on the paper.
Constraint #051
The Domestic Atomic Mushroom
Introduce a plausible false element into a group. Reveal within twenty-four hours.
Constraint #050
The Social Sculpture
Organize an event without a program. Each participant is both artist and spectator.
Constraint #049
The Map of Your Scars
Each scar has a story. Draw them. Tell them.
Constraint #048
The jesusswimming
Create a website with a single concept. The URL is the title of the work.
Constraint #047
The Resurrected PC
Recover an old PC. Install Linux. Discover that obsolescence is software.
Constraint #046
Dismantled AI
Use an AI for a week. Document everything. The gap is the work.
Constraint #045
The Conscious Pixel
Create an image pixel by pixel in a spreadsheet. Each cell is a pixel.
Constraint #044
The Autopsied File
Open an old file or system file. Analyze its metadata like an archaeologist.
Constraint #043
The Hand-Written Website
Write the HTML/CSS of a web page... by hand, on paper.
Constraint #042
The Daily Terminal
Use the terminal (cmd/bash) to create a code or data artwork.
Constraint #041
The Polyrhythm of Objects
Create percussion by tapping different everyday objects with a specific rhythm.
Constraint #040
The Sound Pandora’s Box
Record all the sounds of your day. Create a sonic composition.
Constraint #039
SuperMario Sleeping
Recreate Super Mario Bros with photos of you sleeping in improvised settings.
Constraint #038
The Digital Ready-Made
Find an image online. Re-request it from an AI. Compare.
Constraint #037
The Weekly Subversion
Transform an everyday object into an absurd sculpture.
Constraint #036
The Exhaustive List
List everything that makes you anxious. Everything. No filter.
Constraint #035
The Post-Trauma Journal
Write your journal 48 hours after a difficult event.
Constraint #034
The Daily Clip Constraint
Film 1 minute of video each day. Same setting, same time every day.
Constraint #033
The Tattooed Autobiography
Draw with marker on your skin a symbol for each significant event.
Constraint #032
The Cache Self-Portrait
Export your browser cache. Print everything. That's your self-portrait.
Constraint #031
Intimate Neon
Transform one of your secrets into a glowing sign. Photograph it. Keep it.
Constraint #030
The Dictated Journal
You dictate your diary aloud, walking down the street.
Constraint #029
Daily Phasing
Every hour, you change personality. 6-7am you are A, 7-8am you are B...
Constraint #028
Rhythmic Counting
Count absurd things during a day. Share your numbers.
Constraint #027
Calle Drift
Follow a stranger for a day. Document their route.
Constraint #026
The Inherited Playlist
Ask someone to create your soundtrack. That's your musical portrait.
Constraint #025
The Weekly Time Capsule
Lock your week in a box. To open in a year.
Constraint #024
The Intentional Ephemeral
Write a beautiful page. Burn it. That's your creation.
Constraint #023
Citizen K
Adopt your friend's identity for an entire day.
Constraint #022
The Minimal Hack
Intervene in public space in the most minimal way possible.
Constraint #021
Portrait of a Stranger
One stranger's portrait per week. Ask, draw, display.
Constraint #020
The Double Gaze
Create a two-layer image. Two gazes, two truths.
Constraint #019
The Ephemeral Collage
Draw a face. Paste it at night. Don't come back to see it.
Constraint #018
Personal Invasion
Reproduce your pattern throughout the city. Photograph. Map.
Constraint #017
The Daily Imprint
Each day, an imprint of a different part of your body.
Constraint #016
Measured Pain
Document your daily pains. Scale, drawing, color.
Constraint #015
Body Phase Shift
Slow down an everyday gesture by ten percent each hour.
Constraint #014
The Clapping
Two people, one struck rhythm. One shifts. Hold without getting lost.
Constraint #013
The One-Minute Choreographic Journal
One body sculpture per day. One minute. No more.