A celebration of websites

GOOD LINKS#

1. WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! Rhizome at 30. Rhizome — our friends, neighbors, and collaborators here in NYC — are celebrating 30 years of their history with a show curated by DFOS collaborators LAN Party. The show, highlighting the power and potential of websites as art as form as everything, features several of our favorites, including Chia Amisola, Maya Man, Molly Soda, and Rafael Rozedaal. There's a party you can RSVP to on Sept 21 (we’ll be there). Yay websites!

2. Is endless scroll destroying creative culture? (Variety) It’s one thing when a friend rhetorically asks this question. It’s another when it’s world leaders. French President (and budding product manager?) Emmanuel Macron and Korean president (and enthusiastic drummer) Lee Jae-Myung hosted an international summit this week with politicians and industry honchos about how to protect and promote cinema and longer form video-based media. We're glad to see energy in this specific area, and in global coordination around the livelihoods of creative people globally.

3. The Serpentine runs a residency for artists to research AI. (FAD Magazine) London museum The Serpentine announced the recipients of its first R&D Fellowship exploring Future Art Ecosystems focused on AI's impacts on culture, institutions and creative practices. Alice Bucknell, a video game artist who participated in LAN Party’s recent DFOS talk series, is among those selected. Interested in seeing the work that comes from this.

SPOTLIGHT: Daily Doodle Club#

Daily Doodle Club is a shared drawing practice led by Melbourne-based artist and designer Güs Kattattak with a simple invitation: spend one to five minutes drawing, share what you make, and show up again. Rules include “fail on purpose” and “have fun,” with explicit permission to break them as needed. Their motto underlines this: “Consistency over perfection. Community above algorithms.”

Each week a different member chooses seven prompts for everyone to draw, like a cake drawn with your non-dominant hand, a self-portrait with your eyes closed, or the entire universe in ten seconds. Güs draws alongside everyone else. What began with friends doodling over SMS and in-person sessions has become a shared practice with people from different corners of the world.

We especially appreciate the willingness to share something imperfect and let that encourage someone else to try. It’s comforting when drawing badly is encouraged and everyone is figuring it out together. The project might lead to zines and animations made from the practice, but for now, it’s just about the pleasure of making something small and seeing what everyone else came up with.

Explore it yourself: Daily Doodle Club

DFOS beyond DFOS#

When we talk about creating worlds of our own, we mean the underlying infrastructure too. Our identities, what we say, and what we make should not depend on a single company continuing to exist or deciding to keep you around to exist. That includes us.

Last week we released a few things that put this into practice. You can now use your DFOS identity to sign in to other websites that support it, link that identity to a web domain you control, and add an exit key designed to let your identity continue beyond DFOS. This isn’t a one-click migration of your world, but the DFOS Protocol builds data independence into the foundation of everything you do.

As DFOS cofounder/architect Brandon Valosek puts it: “DFOS should be useful without being indispensable.” 

Read his walkthrough of what’s live and how it works here.

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