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xstenTarot Code is a deck of animated cards, offering advice for the terrible 2020s.
Original animated cards are lovingly designed and coded in p5.js. They explore the layered meanings and life instructions of 78 tarot cards, and the process and themes of learning how to code.The four suits relate to themes of labour and resources (Coins), intellect (Swords), emotions and the subconscious (Cups), and creativity and enterprise (Wands). These themes are reflected in imagery and movement (the cyclical Coins, directional Swords, psychedelic Cups, and colourful and interactive wan...
xstenLittle Lyell Machines - Context, material, catalogue
Machines mentioned: p5.js; historical documents; a story sequence; the microfiche; View-Master; tunnelling equipment; railways; company organisations; global trade; the share market; an escaped convict’s tent scraper fabricated in 1859 as (empty belly) he tries to clean away mud after a futile day slashing through thick scrub looking for signs of precious metals.1. ContextI spent a few winter days at the site of some extreme mining history in the inhospitable west coast of Tasmania. The lands...
xstenSeasonal Maps: Games of limited agency
Four interactive fully-generative code-based works, four types of limited agency at the root of human motivations for mapping - to monitor, name/own, build and travel.L-R: Surveillance Season, Network Season, Blueprint Season, Escape SeasonLike the 4 environmental seasons, with their opposing features of heat / cold / scarcity / abundance, each piece is a stand-alone work with its own seasonal texture or mood: Surveillance Season is a screen to monitor a rain of fragments. The more monitoring...
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xstenTarot Code is a deck of animated cards, offering advice for the terrible 2020s.
Original animated cards are lovingly designed and coded in p5.js. They explore the layered meanings and life instructions of 78 tarot cards, and the process and themes of learning how to code.The four suits relate to themes of labour and resources (Coins), intellect (Swords), emotions and the subconscious (Cups), and creativity and enterprise (Wands). These themes are reflected in imagery and movement (the cyclical Coins, directional Swords, psychedelic Cups, and colourful and interactive wan...
xstenLittle Lyell Machines - Context, material, catalogue
Machines mentioned: p5.js; historical documents; a story sequence; the microfiche; View-Master; tunnelling equipment; railways; company organisations; global trade; the share market; an escaped convict’s tent scraper fabricated in 1859 as (empty belly) he tries to clean away mud after a futile day slashing through thick scrub looking for signs of precious metals.1. ContextI spent a few winter days at the site of some extreme mining history in the inhospitable west coast of Tasmania. The lands...
xstenSeasonal Maps: Games of limited agency
Four interactive fully-generative code-based works, four types of limited agency at the root of human motivations for mapping - to monitor, name/own, build and travel.L-R: Surveillance Season, Network Season, Blueprint Season, Escape SeasonLike the 4 environmental seasons, with their opposing features of heat / cold / scarcity / abundance, each piece is a stand-alone work with its own seasonal texture or mood: Surveillance Season is a screen to monitor a rain of fragments. The more monitoring...
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Little Lyell Machines (book) now accompanies Little Lyell Machines (onchain generative art). The book is a mix of artwork catalogue, generative art essay, and Tasmanian history. It’s a satisfying A5-ish size in the hand, 80-something pages, with a cute glossy dust jacket. It’s been a joy to make: wrapping the project in its historical, place, art and technology context, and working with a designer, surrendering to the methods of her craft.
This is a limited run of 100 numbered copies, the first publication by Blackout Group.
Purchase link for a physical is here:
Contact me if you prefer to order via crypto and a couple of DMs.
And/or you can mint a digital pdf version as NFT here:
nft://8453/0x20ceb3107a39da3b27c11a789d2ddb93b59f249e/?showBuying=true&showMeta=true
Little Lyell Machines (book) now accompanies Little Lyell Machines (onchain generative art). The book is a mix of artwork catalogue, generative art essay, and Tasmanian history. It’s a satisfying A5-ish size in the hand, 80-something pages, with a cute glossy dust jacket. It’s been a joy to make: wrapping the project in its historical, place, art and technology context, and working with a designer, surrendering to the methods of her craft.
This is a limited run of 100 numbered copies, the first publication by Blackout Group.
Purchase link for a physical is here:
Contact me if you prefer to order via crypto and a couple of DMs.
And/or you can mint a digital pdf version as NFT here:
nft://8453/0x20ceb3107a39da3b27c11a789d2ddb93b59f249e/?showBuying=true&showMeta=true
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