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

Vitrine @ Constant

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Camilo Garcia, Daniel Murray, Doriane, Florence Walker, Karl Moubarak, Lara Dautun, Martin Lemaire, Sohyeon Lee, vo ezn


During a one-week worksession with artists, writers, amateurs, designers and hackers, we explored how the malleability of the CSS web language is used to dialogue with technology. The results of the first worksession of this research are presented as an installation in Constant’s window.

Vitrine at constant

The vitrine acted as the rendering of the April worksession. It was part of the parcour d'artiste de saint-gilles, and counted around 30 persons on the opening, alongside a presentation of the research coordinator Doriane Timmermans, which was recorded by Constant for archival. The crafting of the vitrine itself tried to play with the various experiment in an analogic and symbolic format, trying to put forward simpl ideas rather than indepth digital research. It was made with the help of some people from the preceding week worksession.

Soheyon is trying to find a textile for the background of the vitrine that match a classic default named CSS color
printing a 4 meter long scrollbar from the browser to a thermal printer
printing every entry in the Declarations guestbook so far
writting CSS poem with our handwritting directly on the vitrine, as pedagogy and poetical gesture
make-up tool feeling like constraining and standardized set of property that one can use to modify themselves through performance, similarly to CSS language
the vitrine in its entierty was agreed to try to look like a website, without using any typical web-like-aesthetic: no blue hyperlink or digital feeling, but craftyness and symbols; the console is open on the right and is transparent