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

observatory

An ever evolving observatory of declarations and delcarations-related initiatives.

dismantle this template

website

Clara Pasteau


Website to dismantle

Introduction to the Scrapping extension

text extension

Clara Pasteau, Doriane Timmermans, Natalia Pageau


An article about an in-progess web-extension called scrapping. It collect and archive elements of a webpage (e.g a searchbar) and store it on another web page to curate collections (e.g a collection of scrollbars). Like the practice of scrapbooking, it allows us to select, "cut" and "glue" elements we see on the web.

Websites Fabulations @ Constant

workshop

Doriane Timmermans


A workshop about remixing already made websites as user-hackers through browser-extensions, questionning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web-design

Declarative Beauty Salon @ Hackers & Designers summercamp

workshop

Karl Moubarak, Soheyon Lee


Through conversations we started to think about Drag as a somehow related to CSS, as an act of changing shapes through performativity and protocols.

Websites Fabulations @ Hackers & Designers summercamp

workshop

Doriane Timmermans, Vinciane Dahéron


A workshop about remixing already made websites as user-hackers through browser-extensions, questionning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web-design

structure

extension

Doriane


This fabulations tries to reverse what is display and not displayed on a webpage.

The MelonLand Everyone Site

website

Daniel Murray


A collaborative website that can be edited, constructed and destroyed by over 1500 authors, in a never-ending online worksession, exploring the ephemeral meme-like cultures of multi-user media.

Vitrine @ Constant

physical

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.

a thermal printed scrollbar (4m x 68mm)

physical

Martin Lemaire


The thermal printer lies at the intersection, it prints on paper, but there is no page, it preverses the scrolling structure of a website.

ChattyLARP

physical

Florence Walker, Karl Moubarak


What if a group chat could be a LARP session where CSS can become a theater of improvised performances.

focus

extension

Florence Walker, Karl Moubarak, Doriane


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

shovel

extension

Martin Lemaire, Doriane, Daniel Murray


a firefox browser extension that show the root CSS element on every page, and allow us to modify those exposed variables.

weather

extension

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


This experiment uses a weather station API (Application Programing Interface) and connect it to your daily browsing experience. If there is wind outside the wind also blows on the element of any webpage.

where is the sky of a website

website

Sohyeon Lee, Lara Dautun, Camilo Garcia


On February 15, 2024, Melooon asked on the melonland forum the following question: Where is te sky of a website?

The Leaky Homepage Ring

website

Daniel Murray


A mini club, who's membership script slowly fills websites with water, rendering them unusable until visitors collaborate to mop the water up.

scratch

extension

Doriane


a firefox browser extension that allow to edit all website at once

Scratching Wikipedia @ le75 (Graphic Design)

workshop

Doriane, le75 students


A workshop about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.

guestbook


Declarations has a guestbook, where every artists or collaborators can sign. In the guestbook you don't sign by picking up what you write but by shaping the writing itlself through CSS.

against

website

Doriane


A purposefully cinycal tool about web named color and accessibility standards.

Scratching Wikipedia @ Mainz (kommunikationsdesign)

workshop

Doriane, Amélie Dumont, Mainz students


A workshop about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.

Declarative companion @ le75 (Graphic Design)

workshop

Doriane, le75 students


A workshop about describing everyday objects and crafting webpage out of those descriptions.