Welcome! You are not alone
Before doomscrolling and dead internet theory became a thing, the internet used to be a place of promise, excitement, and possibility. Surfing the web could be compared to urban flânerie: a surrender to the unexpected, drifting from website to website, from link to link. Serendipitous moments of discovery were free from the aura of suspicion that plagues today’s algorithmically enhanced social media experience (“why am I being shown this content?”), and felt earned, turning linksharing into an act of kinship and community-building.
(W)HOLE shows how, underneath the current desolated surface, the promise of a better digital world is still alive. Understanding the workings and trappings of digital infrastructure is an important first step to revive and fulfill this promise. In the repository, you will find a carefully curated list of initiatives, tools, and resources that aim to study, critique and improve our shared online reality. We invite you to get lost, to find things you didn’t know you were looking for, and to connect with new friends and communities – for the only way to free ourselves from this clusterf*ck, is to do it together.
Welcome! You are not alone
Before doomscrolling and dead internet theory became a thing, the internet used to be a place of promise, excitement, and possibility. Surfing the web could be compared to urban flânerie: a surrender to the unexpected, drifting from website to website, from link to link. Serendipitous moments of discovery were free from the aura of suspicion that plagues today’s algorithmically enhanced social media experience (“why am I being shown this content?”), and felt earned, turning linksharing into an act of kinship and community-building.
(W)HOLE shows how, underneath the current desolated surface, the promise of a better digital world is still alive. Understanding the workings and trappings of digital infrastructure is an important first step to revive and fulfill this promise. In the repository, you will find a carefully curated list of initiatives, tools, and resources that aim to study, critique and improve our shared online reality. We invite you to get lost, to find things you didn’t know you were looking for, and to connect with new friends and communities – for the only way to free ourselves from this clusterf*ck, is to do it together.
Gathering Softly – A Digital Gallery for Care and Connection
Gathering Softly – A Digital Gallery for Care and Connection
Summary
An online exhibition exploring intimacy and relational care through digital artworks, inviting viewers into gentle, participatory encounters that reimagine how we gather and connect online.
Post Growth – Art-research toolkit for degrowth futures
Post Growth – Art-research toolkit for degrowth futures
Summary
Interactive tools, videos, and workshop materials to rethink growth. Explore energy, labor, and planetary limits; use cards and exercises to spark classroom and community discussions.
Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas
Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas
Summary
Phantom Islands is a sound atlas of imagined islands plotted on maps. Mixing field recordings, archives, and synthesis, it explores how fiction and data blur the line between place and imagination.
How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database
How Do You See the Disappeared? A Warm Database
Summary
A Warm Database by Ganesh and Ghani explores disappearance, visibility, and representation, imagining a living archive of resistance that challenges bureaucratic and state-driven data regimes.
Antimundo – Art, Ecology, and Counter-Geographies
Antimundo – Art, Ecology, and Counter-Geographies
Summary
Antimundo is an artistic platform that explores the intersections of ecology, technology, and resistance. It investigates alternative worldviews and infrastructures that challenge extractivist and colonial paradigms.
Dead Drops – Aram Bartholl
Dead Drops – Aram Bartholl
Summary
A global offline file-sharing project embedding USB drives in public spaces, creating anonymous, peer-to-peer micro-infrastructures that challenge centralized networks and data exchange norms.
Imperfect Archiving: Archiving as Practice for a Love of Softness - Center for Book Arts
Imperfect Archiving: Archiving as Practice for a Love of Softness - Center for Book Arts
Summary
A zine exploring archiving as a tender and political act, embracing imperfection, emotional memory, and softness as tools for feminist and collective preservation.
ARECACEAE
ARECACEAE
Summary
ARECACEAE is a poetic web experiment intertwining botany, computation, and digital aesthetics. Through algorithmic imagery of palm trees, it reflects on the artificial reproduction of nature and the ecological implications of digital simulation.
Computer Virus – Todd Words
Computer Virus – Todd Words
Summary
A digital art project that turns the idea of a computer virus into a poetic metaphor for resistance, contamination, and creative disruption within algorithmic culture.
David Wahrenburg – Artist Portfolio
David Wahrenburg – Artist Portfolio
Summary
An artist portfolio exploring data manipulation, glitch, and algorithmic systems through poetic, critical, and speculative visual practices.
Earth by Warp – A Portal for Creative and Planetary Futures
Earth by Warp – A Portal for Creative and Planetary Futures
Summary
Earth by Warp is an experimental digital space merging art, music, and ecology. Created by Warp Records, it showcases projects that explore the entanglement between creativity, environmental awareness, and collective futures through multimedia storytelling.
Emotional Codes
Emotional Codes
Summary
An interactive publication exploring emotional labor and care work through digital design. It challenges efficiency culture and foregrounds affect as a form of resistance.
Ender Gallery
Ender Gallery
Summary
Ender Gallery is an exhibition space and artist residency that exists inside the game Minecraft.
Frozen Island Live
Frozen Island Live
Summary
A digital art performance questioning identity, visibility, and presence online through fragmented narratives and anti-surveillance aesthetics.
Fungal Page
Fungal Page
Summary
A living publication connecting mycology, art, and technology. Fungal Page embraces the metaphor of networks and decay as an alternative to extractive growth models, inviting ecological and collective modes of being.
HTTPoetics – Protocol poetry on Glitch
HTTPoetics – Protocol poetry on Glitch
Summary
Playful web sketches that treat HTTP, headers, and status codes as poetry. Fork and remix tiny experiments to learn the web by making protocol-driven artworks.
Sarah Holloway – Honeysuckle Honey
Sarah Holloway – Honeysuckle Honey
Summary
Sarah Holloway’s online artworks experiment with visibility, intimacy, and digital embodiment through poetic coding and narrative play. Her projects explore refusal, disguise, and agency in networked environments.
Interspecies Library
Interspecies Library
Summary
An evolving artistic and research platform exploring interspecies communication and shared ecologies, proposing care and empathy as foundations for multispecies coexistence.
Kool Aid Factory – Playful web studio & experiments
Kool Aid Factory – Playful web studio & experiments
Summary
A creative studio making playful websites, web-to-print, and design experiments. Explore projects, toolkits, and resources blending culture, code, and accessible storytelling.
Internet Atlas – Louise Drulhe
Internet Atlas – Louise Drulhe
Summary
A visual essay on the internet’s hidden geography-cables, hubs, borders, flows. Clear diagrams and short texts show how online space has politics, power, and real-world limits.
The Library of Missing Datasets
The Library of Missing Datasets
Summary
An ongoing art project by Mimi Onuoha that documents and visualizes datasets that don’t exist-topics systematically ignored or uncollected by governments and corporations. The work exposes how power operates through omission, making invisibility itself a site of critique.
Nonhuman Nonsense
Nonhuman Nonsense
Summary
An art and design collective exploring nonhuman rights, posthuman ethics, and speculative futures. Their works use humor and storytelling to question anthropocentrism and technological domination.
Google Faces – Finding faces in Earth’s landscapes
Google Faces – Finding faces in Earth’s landscapes
Summary
Onformative’s bot scans Google Maps with face-tracking to simulate pareidolia-spotting face-like shapes in mountains, deserts, and coasts. An art experiment in perception and machine vision.
OS Furnitures (Tumblr Archive)
OS Furnitures (Tumblr Archive)
Summary
An experimental Tumblr archive documenting DIY and open-source furniture design. OS Furnitures celebrates material simplicity, reuse, and local autonomy as aesthetic and political gestures against mass production.
Autonomy Cube (Paglen & Appelbaum)
Autonomy Cube (Paglen & Appelbaum)
Summary
Deploys a Wi-Fi hotspot sculpture that routes all traffic through the Tor network and acts as a Tor relay, reclaiming museum internet as an anonymity tool.
PLANT by Jun-Yi
PLANT by Jun-Yi
Summary
PLANT is an experimental web project that visualizes the internet as a living ecosystem. Through interactive design and generative visuals, it reveals the organic and unstable nature of digital networks while proposing a more ecological, symbiotic view of computation.
The Internet is Fun! – Kwon Projects
The Internet is Fun! – Kwon Projects
Summary
The Internet is Fun! is a playful web-based artwork that critiques the commercialization of online joy. Through interactive design and nostalgic aesthetics, it reclaims the internet’s early spirit of experimentation, humor, and collective play.
MacPictures (IAAA Project)
MacPictures (IAAA Project)
Summary
MacPictures revisits early digital image-making through the lens of artificial intelligence. By blending obsolete computing aesthetics with generative algorithms, the work questions the fetishization of “intelligent” systems and the myth of technological progress.
Rhizome
Rhizome
Summary
A digital art organisation supporting born-digital cultural practices through exhibitions, research, preservation tools, and community programs that nurture experimental, accessible digital creativity.
Jorge² by Ting Sun
Jorge² by Ting Sun
Summary
Jorge² is a poetic and experimental web project that blurs human and machine communication. Through layered text, fragmented dialogue, and generative interaction, it questions authorship, algorithmic agency, and the politics of voice in digital environments.
Beatrix Pang
Beatrix Pang
Summary
Artist Beatrix Pang’s channel with short films, documentation of exhibitions, talks, and workshops across art, publishing, and community. Browse videos and follow for updates.
Virtual Care Lab: Terms of Care
Virtual Care Lab: Terms of Care
Summary
Community-written “Terms of Care” for respectful, accessible, consent-based participation in VCL, how to show up, host, and protect each other online.
1-Star Review Tour – The Weight of Data (Chronus Art Center)
1-Star Review Tour – The Weight of Data (Chronus Art Center)
Summary
1-Star Review Tour is an online art project that visualizes and performs the hidden labor behind digital ratings and data extraction. It transforms algorithmic reviews into an act of resistance, questioning the affective and economic infrastructures of platform economies.
Earthcode – computing with earth
Earthcode – computing with earth
Summary
Artist research exploring geology as computation: soil, minerals, and ground signals as circuits and memory. Essays, workshops, and experiments on “earth-as-medium” electronics.
Cristóbal Parra – Media arts, generative image & territory
Cristóbal Parra – Media arts, generative image & territory
Summary
Portfolio of a Chilean media artist: generative image, photography, mixed media, and A/V live. Projects like “Fósiles Futuros” and “Andalién 19/31”; themes of territory, body, Biobío.
Hallucinations – Damien Charlotin
Hallucinations – Damien Charlotin
Summary
Hallucinations is an experimental art project exploring the blurred boundary between human imagination and AI-generated imagery. By visualizing algorithmic “dreams,” it questions authorship, perception, and the seductive power of machine hallucinations.
Ex Libris – Halisten Studio
Ex Libris – Halisten Studio
Summary
Ex Libris by Halisten Studio is a visual and conceptual project exploring how libraries and archives can act as living systems rather than static repositories. Through graphic experimentation, it reimagines reading, knowledge, and ownership in the digital age.
The Hidden Life of an Amazon User – Joana Moll
The Hidden Life of an Amazon User – Joana Moll
Summary
Maps how Amazon’s infrastructure and user-interfaces harvest user data and labour invisibly, exposing hidden exploitation in everyday commerce.
Ko Sin Tung – Works & Exhibitions
Ko Sin Tung – Works & Exhibitions
Summary
Hong Kong–born artist exploring urban change and everyday infrastructures via installations, images, and site-specific series.
Ludivine Gragy – Landscape Architect, Berlin
Ludivine Gragy – Landscape Architect, Berlin
Summary
Studio exploring plants, soil, water & stone to grow ecosystems. Site-specific, experimental work across DE/JP/CH; blends digital+analog tools. Guest professor at TU Dresden.
Art Direction – MercuryOS
Art Direction – MercuryOS
Summary
MercuryOS is a conceptual design project that reimagines the operating system as an artistic and critical medium. Its Art Direction section reflects on aesthetics, control, and resistance in digital interfaces, challenging the ideology of seamless technology.
Peculiar Manicule
Peculiar Manicule
Summary
Peculiar Manicule is a hybrid design and research platform exploring typographic heritage, print culture, and collective authorship. Through open projects and publishing experiments, it reimagines design as shared knowledge and cultural care.
Queer Futurism: Denizens of Liminality – Queer Nature
Queer Futurism: Denizens of Liminality – Queer Nature
Summary
A poetic exploration of queer futurism and ecological kinship, this project reimagines survival and belonging beyond binaries, blending decolonial ecology with speculative storytelling.
Ritual Inhabitual
Ritual Inhabitual
Summary
Ritual Inhabitual is an art and research collective creating performances, installations, and workshops centered on embodied care and feminist resistance to productivity culture.
Design for an Entrance to the Internet – Ted Hunt
Design for an Entrance to the Internet – Ted Hunt
Summary
A speculative design project imagining a physical gateway to the Internet. Ted Hunt translates invisible digital protocols into tangible rituals, prompting reflection on access, control, and infrastructure.
The Toaster Project – Making a toaster from scratch
The Toaster Project – Making a toaster from scratch
Summary
Designer Thomas Thwaites mines, smelts, and molds parts to build a £4.99 toaster from raw materials-exposing hidden supply chains, industrial complexity, and the limits of DIY.
YH Song
YH Song
Summary
The personal website and portfolio of artist YH Song, presenting poetic, intimate digital works that explore relationships, vulnerability, and the gentle social dynamics of online and offline interaction.
Zheng Bo – Eco-queer art with plants, people, and politics
Zheng Bo – Eco-queer art with plants, people, and politics
Summary
Documents the work of the eco-queer artist Zheng Bo, whose practice cultivates more-than-human relations through plants, bodies and communities.
Alt Text as Poetry
Alt Text as Poetry
Summary
A collaboration between disabled artists framing alt-text as poetry, offering workshops and a workbook to promote accessible, creative image description across digital spaces.
Damaged Earth Catalog
Damaged Earth Catalog
Summary
A digital magazine exploring aesthetic and political forms of technological failure, glitch, and resistance, turning digital “damage” into a critical and poetic gesture.
ELLESHO.ME
ELLESHO.ME
Summary
A personal web project blending performance, coding, and self-archiving to explore identity, visibility, and refusal within online spaces through playful and poetic web design.
Internetour
Internetour
Summary
An interactive art project offering guided tours through the early internet’s aesthetics, interfaces, and communities, reimagining digital nostalgia as collective memory and critique.
Moonlit Exposed
Moonlit Exposed
Summary
An experimental web project exploring self-exposure, vulnerability, and the blurred boundaries between intimacy and surveillance in digital environments.
Southland
Southland
Summary
An artistic web project exploring extraction, land, and digital colonialism, connecting ecological degradation with the invisible infrastructures powering global computation.
Poetical.Day
Poetical.Day
Summary
A minimalist web platform that delivers a new poem each day, inviting quiet reflection and offering a gentle, human-centered digital experience beyond constant stimulation.
Printed Web
Printed Web
Summary
An artist-led publishing project exploring the intersection of print and the web, collecting works that remix online material into physical forms of networked art.
Ribo.zone
Ribo.zone
Summary
An experimental online space hosting collaborative art, code, and text projects that question authorship, participation, and the social dynamics of digital creation.
Distant Gallery
Distant Gallery
Summary
An online gallery platform hosting experimental digital exhibitions that explore remote togetherness, offering artists and audiences shared spaces for connection, interaction, and gentle collective encounters.
Synthetic Messenger
Synthetic Messenger
Summary
An art intervention that used a botnet to auto-click climate news ads, revealing how digital advertising, computation, and platform infrastructures shape environmental impact and attention economies.
Traffic Cam Photobooth
Traffic Cam Photobooth
Summary
An art project that turns public traffic cameras into playful photobooths, repurposing surveillance infrastructures to reveal their absurdity and challenge how automated systems watch and categorize people.
Wilderness.land
Wilderness.land
Summary
A poetic web artwork that renders desert landscapes through generative code, inviting reflection on ecological fragility, digital materiality, and the intertwined futures of natural and computational environments.
Cameron’s World
Cameron’s World
Summary
A large-scale web collage built from GeoCities fragments, celebrating early web folk aesthetics and highlighting a decentralized, user-made internet culture outside today’s platform structures.
Hydrants – Day Rose Lane
Hydrants – Day Rose Lane
Summary
A photographic project documenting fire hydrants as overlooked urban markers, reframing mundane infrastructure into a playful, alternative dataset that resists normative ways of seeing and classifying cities.
Digital Altar
Digital Altar
Summary
An interactive web artwork inviting visitors to place digital offerings, creating a shared ritual space that blends spirituality, care practices, and communal reflection within an intimate online environment.