Declarations is an artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on our daily lives, and on design-artistic practices.

References

External references that inspired Declarations

Theory

Some essays and text that have inspired the Declarations research.

Author Title Year
Nolwenn Maudet Tactical Design 2023
Robin Rendle The Cascade 2023 - present
Everest Pipkin Soft corruptor 2021
HTML ENERGY HTML ENERGY podcast 2021
Terence Eden The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML 2021
Michael Connor Curating Online Exhibitions 2020
Myriam Suzanne CSS is weird 2019
Laurel Schwulst My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? 2018
Lowtech Magazine How is the lowtech magazine website designed? 2018
Zach Mandeville Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion! 2016
Paul Slocum CATALOG OF INTERNET ARTIST CLUBS 2016
W3C A brief history of CSS until 2016 2016
J. R. CARPENTER A Handmade Web 2015
Frank Chimero The web's grain 2015
Femke Snelting Dividing & Sharing 2008
Olia Lialina A Vernacular Web 1,2,3 2005, 2007, 2010
Mark L. Irons Patterns for Personal Web Sites 2003
John Allsopp A Dao of Web Design 2000
Håkon W Lie Cascading HTML Style Sheets -- A Proposal 1994

Entry learning

If you're interested in learning web-language, free an afternoon, make yourself some tea, and pick one of those.

Style as content

People on the web use style to create shapes, explore their digital materiality, draw with them. Those examples break the idea that style is there to be applied on some content, and create moment where the style is generating the content itself as digital shapes.

Drawing

Navigating

Graphical learning & weird tools

Archeological