salt.codes

An experimental publishing project for essays, digital art, electronic literature, speculative design & more :: Run by @irLhumanities in collab w/ @life_x_code

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Material Conditions 01 is live! 🚀🌱✨🔮🥳

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/5FWe2vJscZ

Our virtual art exhibit includes ten exciting projects imagining speculative futures!

#SpeculativeDesign #DigitalArt #ElectronicLiterature #Futurism #VirtualExhibit #MaterialConditions

[The New River @TheNewRiverVT]

Our archives dating back to 1996 are now preserved and accessible in The NEXT. This collection launched today, thanks to the hard work of @ELitLab, @eliterature, @dgrigar, @MadisonMccartha, @pen_and_think, and others! Be sure to explore it at: https://t.co/rY1Ue3yBsO.

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Check out this great collection of electronic literature from @TheNewRiverVT!

[The New River @TheNewRiverVT]

The New River's Spring 2022 issue, edited by @shannonsullivxn and @dbtoil, is now live! Check it out at https://t.co/mdkI0Qe4FM. Work by @pen_and_think, @clearlyelk, @A_Lopez_Pomares, @programmatology, @S4RAN3T, @saraniroobakhsh, @wtfmodernart, @hellocatfood, and @danielchowe.

[Marisa Parham @amplify285]

Somewhere btwn @umd_AADHum, searches, 15+ student projs +a gazillion writing/service tings, this happened. And I am so grateful. Thanks to our awesome contributors + to Cassandra & Andrew for reminding me that this, too, is work that needs to be done | @awwsmith_ @frolickingrogue

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We love to hear this! Come get your prompts✨ #MaterialConditions

https://t.co/I2D5TgdRm6

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Parham's prompts were "Stories told to conches last forever" and "People can walk on oceans during storms"

You can get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgdRm6

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Marisa Parham's (@amplify285) Let Us Be Weightless

Parham reverse-imagines the materiality of (our) world’s undersea infrastructure as a circum-Atlantic story about humans, technology, & sea creatures🌊

Link ⇢ https://t.co/iiarqmlbct

[Cassandra Hradil | [email protected] @frolickingrogue]

there are lots of things i loved about working on this exhibition - one of them was definitely getting to host @kalyani_tupkary's brilliant speculative design work! 🥳 always a pleasure to be in conversation with her work.

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Wordie's prompts were "We can remember our entire lives from the moment we were born" and "There are no longer writing systems and all storytelling is oral"

You can get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgdRm6

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today we're spotlighting Fred Wordie's Your Life in Emoji from #MaterialConditions 01

Wordie constructs a web experiment that challenges people to tell stories about their past, present and future through random Emoji 😄

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/VJRgeWCflI

[Andrew W. Smith @awwsmith_]

Super fun to share this small piece of net art alongside the Material Conditions 01 exhibit at @salt_codes!

and more is coming to the story previewed in this project… 🌴

#MaterialConditions

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Tupkary's prompts were "Stories told to conches last forever" and "All plants have perfect memory and can communicate with humans"

You can still get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgdRm6

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Kalyani Tupkary's (@kalyani_tupkary) two heirlooms

Tupkary explores the natural forms of the kadipatta and conch to tease out the bonds between people, cultures, & objects across space + time 🌿

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/tDX7W6SWbA

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Smith's prompts were "There are no longer writing systems and all storytelling is oral" and "All plants have perfect memory and can communicate with humans"

You can get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgdRm6

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today's spotlight is Andrew W. Smith's (@awwsmith_) Histree from #MaterialConditions 01

Smith constructs an interactive collage to offer glimpses of a world in which trees become the primary keeper of history across generations 🌲🌳

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/Kmzi9MYV5I

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Singh's prompts were "Stories told to conches last forever" and "The Earth stops spinning around its axis / core"

You can still get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgdRm6

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Shristi Singh's Do You See, A Face On The Horizon? 🌅

Singh writes of parallel universes, other worlds, & alternate realities to render ecological disaster through a moment of personal disaster

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/K3DBXaiTjP

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Pretsfelder's prompts were "Everyone must publish a personal story on their birthday" and "All planets in the milky way are habitable and there a free instant teleportation devices between them"

Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgvsdE

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today's #MaterialConditions 01 spotlight is Julia V. Pretsfelder's (@usuallyprets) Inhabited (free instant)

Pretsfelder mingles words freely with imaged compositions to meditate on personal loss and celestial navigation💫

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/Wp4OjMdcdt

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Lichtman's prompts were "Stories must begin at their end" and "The stars can no longer be seen"

You can still get your own prompts from Prompt Generator 01 ⇢ https://t.co/I2D5TgvsdE

#MaterialConditions #PromptGenerator

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Today we're spotlighting Daniel Lichtman's The Raisin Truck Makes Raisins from #MaterialConditions 01

Lichtman's virtual 3D world telescopes nonlinearly across time with a narrative that calls both cosmic & material truths into question

Check it out ⇢ https://t.co/ck8JCkCaF7