The Historical Contacts, Constraint #70 Change the names of ten contacts in your phone to names of historical figures you admire. Keep them for a week. See if it changes the way you talk to them. Reference artist(s): Sophie Calle.…
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Constraint of the Week: The Impossible Ringtone
The Impossible Ringtone, Constraint #69 Replace your phone ringtone with a sound you recorded yourself. Your child’s voice, the rain on your window, your morning coffee. Keep it for a month. Reference artist(s): Merzbow. The protocol Record a sound from…
Under the Hood: The Database and the Constraint Generator
The OuViePo generator works like a real digital exquisite corpse: parameters are drawn at random first, then the system finds the matching constraint. A look at the technical architecture.
Webmaster’s Manifesto
Protocol #000 – The Builder’s Constraint Everyone has a constraint here. Yours, perhaps, is to follow a stranger for an hour. Or to photograph only red things for a week. Or to count the days separating you from your death…