Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on design-artistic practices and our daily lives. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.
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.
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.
