Declarations is an artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on our daily lives, and on design-artistic practices.
An ever evolving observatory of Declarations and Declarations-related projects and artefacts. we collect, archive, document, to create a collective mind map of the research tracks. This is not a polished space to release projects, but a messy space to constantly reorganise ideas as they are being practiced.
one afternoon on CSS inside emails bluring the line between conversation and publications
A workshop about describing everyday objects and crafting webpage out of those descriptions.
A workshop about remixing already made websites as user-hackers through browser-extensions, questionning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web-design
Pure CSS Live Coding at le Wonder commissionned by Raphael Bastide
Website to dismantle
A embroided sentence that says CSS is my love language
A workshop about remixing already made websites as user-hackers through browser-extensions, questionning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web-design
Through conversations we started to think about Drag as a somehow related to CSS, as an act of changing shapes through performativity and protocols.
This activity is a Live Action Role Play (LARP) mediated through the Zulip chat software and expressed and performed with live CSS fabulations in ChattyPub.
The process of tie-dying will be split into a series of CSS-like steps printed on paper sheets that participants can combine to formulate a style sheet for their tie-dye (similarly to fridge-magnet pomes, where pre-printed words can be combined into a poem).
A workshop about remixing already made websites as user-hackers through browser-extensions, questionning our agency as individuals and collectivities on the web-design
The process of tie-dying will be split into a series of CSS-like steps printed on paper sheets that participants can combine to formulate a style sheet for their tie-dye (similarly to fridge-magnet pomes, where pre-printed words can be combined into a poem).
This fabulations tries to reverse what is display and not displayed on a webpage.
Sometimes you look at the sky through a window. This is the space where you observe the sky through a 'window'. In this space, what you see in front of you will look different depending on the weather. As always.
A collaborative website that can be edited, constructed and destroyed by over 1500 authors, in a never-ending online worksession, exploring the ephemeral meme-like cultures of multi-user media.
A selection of CSS poem where taken out of different experiment and handwritten on the vitrine.
During a one-week worksession with artists, writers, amateurs, designers and hackers, we explored how the malleability of the CSS web language is used to dialogue with technology. The results of the first worksession of this research are presented as an installation in Constant’s window.
The thermal printer lies at the intersection, it prints on paper, but there is no page, it preverses the scrolling structure of a website.
What if a group chat could be a LARP session where CSS can become a theater of improvised performances.
The focus fabulation act as both a perfomative process and a poem.
a firefox browser extension that show the root CSS element on every page, and allow us to modify those exposed variables.
This experiment uses a weather station API (Application Programing Interface) and connect it to your daily browsing experience. If there is wind outside the wind also blows on the element of any webpage.
On February 15, 2024, Melooon asked on the melonland forum the following question: Where is te sky of a website?
A mini club, who's membership script slowly fills websites with water, rendering them unusable until visitors collaborate to mop the water up.
a firefox browser extension that allow to edit all website at once
A workshop about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.
Declarations has a guestbook, where every artists or collaborators can sign. In the guestbook you don't sign by picking up what you write but by shaping the writing itlself through CSS.
A purposefully cinycal tool about web named color and accessibility standards.
A workshop about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.
A workshop about describing everyday objects and crafting webpage out of those descriptions.
A CSS-based lettering system, where each glyph is entierly drawed out of one div and its two :after and :before pseudo elements.