neverhitsend is a collective that organizes discussion around communications ideology.
Toggle
For a curatorial residency at 221a, we built Toggle, a customized Chrome browser plugin that allows users to overlay content atop any already existing web page, creating a hidden metapage of text, images, hyperlinks, and other information that is only visible to those with the plugin installed.
We invited eleven fellows were invited to use Toggle to develop or share work that engages the site being written over. Toggle performs multiple roles as publishing platform, research archive, or as a tool to corroborate the information on existing sites. Much like actual graffiti, the metapages shown on Toggle can both challenge visibility by defacing or accentuating previous content, or by generating alternative information. For some, the metapage is a way to display critical texts or interviews that interact with existing webpages by functioning as poetic interventions; for others, it will serve as a cache for artworks, interviews, and research.
Anyone who has installed the plugin can toggle between versions of a URL’s original content and the content contributed by the participating fellows. The purpose of this practice is not to expose a hidden, sub-domain of the internet, but to produce a para-domain: a space for language and communication that is unafraid, that celebrates the marginal spaces. The project begins with an increased awareness of the extent of surveillance not just by governmental bodies, but by the very digital infrastructure of the internet (markup languages, tags, IP addresses, and other minable data). Instructions to download Toggle are here.
To view Toggle activities, enter a designated URL into the address bar. URLs sorted by project and Fellow can be found at http://221a.ca/toggle. A complete list of URLs can be found on the Toggle metapage of www.neverhitsend.info.
For a curatorial residency at 221a, we built Toggle, a customized Chrome browser plugin that allows users to overlay content atop any already existing web page, creating a hidden metapage of text, images, hyperlinks, and other information that is only visible to those with the plugin installed.
We invited eleven fellows were invited to use Toggle to develop or share work that engages the site being written over. Toggle performs multiple roles as publishing platform, research archive, or as a tool to corroborate the information on existing sites. Much like actual graffiti, the metapages shown on Toggle can both challenge visibility by defacing or accentuating previous content, or by generating alternative information. For some, the metapage is a way to display critical texts or interviews that interact with existing webpages by functioning as poetic interventions; for others, it will serve as a cache for artworks, interviews, and research.
Anyone who has installed the plugin can toggle between versions of a URL’s original content and the content contributed by the participating fellows. The purpose of this practice is not to expose a hidden, sub-domain of the internet, but to produce a para-domain: a space for language and communication that is unafraid, that celebrates the marginal spaces. The project begins with an increased awareness of the extent of surveillance not just by governmental bodies, but by the very digital infrastructure of the internet (markup languages, tags, IP addresses, and other minable data). Instructions to download Toggle are here.
To view Toggle activities, enter a designated URL into the address bar. URLs sorted by project and Fellow can be found at http://221a.ca/toggle. A complete list of URLs can be found on the Toggle metapage of www.neverhitsend.info.
POST PRIVATE
Post Private, Monte Vista, Los Angeles, March 13 - 16, 2014.
the making of a collective reader in response to the prompt 'Post Private' with a diy scanner and custom etched watermarks.
Book scanner kit provided by Daniel Reetz of diybookscanner.org. Spreads software created by Johannes Baiter.
