Compositions for the Infinite Scroll
Compositions for the Infinite Scroll (2024 — ongoing) is a series of site-specific network-generated works for the web that employ the infinite scroll format of social media websites, weblogs and e-commerce websites. The format is not employed in the typical way as an automated means of accessing a stream of content, such as user updates, posts or products that are each intended to be unique or distinct, accessed in a userfriendly manner by minimising interaction while increasing user engagement. Instead, Compositions for the Infinite Scroll utilises a user’s scrolling action to create its content of generated compositions on the fly. Each version of Compositions for the Infinite Scroll explores various ideas of vertical panoramas, endless myrioramas, parallax scrolling, movement, combinations, colour, form, abstraction and juxtaposition. Each composition created as part of each version is a generative artwork that forms part of a series created as the user scrolls. The series is unique to each user’s visit, not repeated or stored, and potentially infinitely long, only ending when the user stops scrolling or the browser runs out of memory. Compositions are both audience and (web)page/browser/platform ‘site’ specific art composed of transient, ephemeral, post-like content that individually has no meaning but collectively replicates an experience of the web.
website: https://www.asquare.org/compositions-for-the-infinite-scroll/
Short Bio
Garrett Lynch IRL (http://www.asquare.org/) is an artist, lecturer, curator and theorist. His work explores networks (in their most open sense) within an artistic context; the spaces between artist, artworks and audience as a means, site and context for artistic initiation, creation and discourse. Recently most active in performance Garrett’s networked practice spans online art, installation, performance and writing. He has previously exhibited internationally at venues such as the European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück; Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart; Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin; 319 Scholes, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, Watermans and Furtherfield, London; Tate, St. Ives; NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol; Madatac X, Madrid and Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul.
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