Are you also feed up with big techs grip on our social lives online? And do you want something more personal than mastodon? Something that is easier to self-host and integrate with your own website? What if you could have the core features of twitter and instagram by just uploading a plane text file to a server?
With Twtxt, a minimalist protocol for micro-blogging, you can. And with the tools that the communities around Yarn Social even your parents can start using twtxt too.
In my talk I want to explore my motivations as a digital artist for getting involved in the development of Yarn Social, a decentralized social media based on the Twtxt format, and why I decided to make my own tools in PHP to hopefully make it even more accessible for more people to self-host.
Live: http://darch.dk/timeline
Code: https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline
Hei, I’m Søren Peter (born 1986), a live coder and visualist/VJ based in Copenhagen. I’ve been doing live visuals for concerts and parties since 2011 and been into live coding visuals since 2019.
Artistically I’m driven by a question of what are ways to create interesting visuals using code. Exploring how complex patterns can emerge from simple algorithms. I want to understand the mechanics of digital tools, and explore how the accidents, glitches and bad code can be a source of new aesthetics. I don’t want to leave the human our of the equations, so I’m not interested in Artificial Intelligences or Machine Leaning assisted digital creations. I want to play with the mathematics and formulas that lay beneath the visuals.
