Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard.

focus

extension

Florence Walker, Karl Moubarak, Doriane


The focus fabulation act as both a perfomative process and a poem.

The focus fabulation act as both a perfomative process and a poem.

This came out of a experimentation of trying to convert any websites to an interactive fictions, right after a discussions on web accessibility and the accessibility tree. There was an overlap of performativeness induced by screen reader and the idea of telling a website slowly letting you navigate through every of it's element individually like if it was a space and you where a character in the space.

The poem goes as follow

/* make everything invisible */
*{
    opacity: 0;
    transition: 1s opacity;
}
/* only show what has focus */
*:focus,
*:has(:focus){
    opcaity: 1;
}
/* on any webpage, you can press TAB 
to focus the next element.
we're telling a webpage one element at a time.*/

It was handwritten on the vitrine of Constant during for collective rendering of a research session.