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Interlayers for the Internet are a collection
of coded Flash drawings that can be added
to a web page by including a snippet of
code into the page's HTML. The code positions
the Interlayer in a unique plane of Internet-space,
one that occurs between the user and their
interface; an interceding space of arbitration
between two entities. Think of this project,
at least, as a means to provide artists
and designers an unexpected element to their
work outside of their design, an addition
that will intervene with the intention of
the designed surface in a conscious tactic
to disrupt their own systems of designerly
control. The Interlayer is resident within
the code, but lies outside the consciousness
of the website's design
He has always affected the way we compute, in the background. Joseph Jacquard's panels that could weave rich coloured yarn into patterned textile first displaced hundreds from their jobs as artisans, and later placed themselves at the very beginning of computing history, as examples of the first computer programs. Jacquard Loom Panels 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7 reflects on the panels taken from Jacquard's machine, their own patterned surface, and their punched-card happenstance of history through its reinterpretation of woven threads into the medium they became.
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