“ Once I had a love and it was a gas/ Soon turned out had a heart of glass”

Debbie Harry, Blondie, 1978

The cold touch of glass, acting under hypnosis like the cast of Werner Herzog’s 1976 Heart of Glass, an unfeeling rock surface that goes on forever, unserenaded life-cycles of electronic devices, strange vagaries of flesh liberated from a determinate function, serialisations and permutations of an algorithm. These are non-human affects we don’t understand, their workings—a black box. Small-file media artists probe this glacial reality with a punk abandon. 

we become water

Leanne Dunic
2022

VANCOUVER, CANADA

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
SONG

DURATION 3:04
PROCESSING TIME 0:59

Picky Eater

Rianna Richards
2022

VANCOUVER, CANADA

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other

DURATION 2:53
PROCESSING TIME 0:47

Adhäsion

BiglerWeibel
2019

Bern, Switzerland

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT

DURATION 0:41
PROCESSING TIME

Collatz

Eric Lennartson
2022

BERN, SWITZERLAND

Ripples (UP TO 5MB)
NSFT

DURATION 0:10
PROCESSING TIME 0:31

Frog of Chorus

Jami Reimer
2022

Vancouver, Canada

MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Song

DURATION 0:55
PROCESSING TIME 0:27

Vivid Dreams Only Happen in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep  

(VDOHREMS)

Debbie Y.J. Lin
2019



MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals

DURATION 0:37
PROCESSING TIME 0:18

Look at you on the FUTURE – Look at you on the DISPLAY

Hernando Urrutia
2022

Portugal

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
Other

DURATION 0:10
PROCESSING TIME

Triptych

Anabela Costa
2016

Paris, France

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER

DURATION 2:12
PROCESSING TIME 2:00

MyPhone Funeral

Hana Kokšalová
2021

Czech Republic

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER

DURATION 10:46
PROCESSING TIME 15:00

Two Minutes

Leo Xiong Tianyu
2022

Vancouver, Canada

RIPPLES (UP TO 5MB)
OTHER

DURATION 1:32
PROCESSING TIME 0:15

Landscape Study IV

Jordyn Stewart
2019

Grimsby, Canada

TROUBLE (22MB)
Portals

DURATION 2:30
PROCESSING TIME 0:30

TV Party

Monique Motut-Firth and Prophecy SuN
2022

Vancouver, Canada

MOLECULES (UP TO 1MB)
Portals

DURATION 1:04
PROCESSING TIME 0:29