summer experiments

[about] With our first release, we began exploring the topic of precarity. Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe. (Onomatopee) by Silvio Lorusso and General Theory of the Precariat by Alex Foti were the first reads which inspired this publication. Living in a constant insecurity became an essential part of our lives slowly and unnoticeably. While it took us some time to figure out how our reality has been shifting so much, we started our research with some basics: a glossary with terms that are already crafted and explored by some authors.

[chapters] ▶ a tiny illustrated glossary of precarity

▶ chainworkers: a chain in a system of chainworkers attempts to break free. In what appears to be a potential escape route, it is only a mirage.

▶ "Should you be working?" As a personal response to the phrase "shouldn't you be working?" from Silvio Lorusso, this Bitsy game (gif) reveals an answer to a question is always at the back of my mind.

coming soon...

[chapters] ▶ sprite -> game data + txt An attempt to reveal the clickstream version of the Bitsy environment via the game data (by interacting with a sprite, or walking to the "i" icon in the game.) Included in the game data are fixed elements that came with the Bitsy format that cannot be deleted, even when they are not used in the game. For example, sound files:
BLIP 1
E5,B5,B5
NAME meow
ENV 40 99 4 185 138
BEAT 61 115
SQR P2

▶ layers of identity: 00, 01, 02 - Over the years we have signed up on plenty of online platforms and applications. That act is motivated by different reasons - we might be invited to join a social network by friends or want to showcase our work to others. Each of those account represent our identity. But what is that identity? Is it who we are at the exact moment when we create our new profile? Or it is who we see ourselves as... Or who we want to be? With every new profile we create, we leave a trace of one identity of oneself.