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*FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT* borrows from the bubbly language and pastel aesthetics of text driven instagram graphics to scrutinize the promotion of wellness, self-care, and confidence on social media.

The piece concentrates on the rhetoric employed in these posts. Persuasive, upbeat, and relentlessly inspirational, there’s a sense of authority embedded in each one. By remixing words and phrases sourced from these types of existing instagram posts, the program generates combinations that mimic their cheerful tone, but range from feeling vaguely familiar to totally absurd. 

Text is wrapped in the sugar cookie aesthetic world of “girl power positive vibes boss babe” kind of media, imitating the graphics designed to catch your eye as you’re scrolling through your feed. Visual variables include the output’s background style, color palette, and layout, as well as other decorative elements such as stars ✹, hearts ♡, flowers ✿, and sparkles ✧ :D

Online, these media objects survive on likes, comments, and shares. *What do I believe?* becomes *What do I want to appear to believe?* Fake it till you make it! Maybe your dream life lives here: In a digital, fantasy world where the algorithm plays god and loving yourself feels like looking into the light of your screen.

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[For Community Testing] FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

By what means can *color* be unraveled through *light*? How can the connection and interaction between hues be experimented with? And, how does saturation, size, distance and perspective affect our perception of tone and brightness?

**Bright** is an elementary attempt at exploring these queries by creating a grid display of neon lights that converge towards a single vertex. Eye-blinding brightness and high but variable saturation that show light bulbs of variable wear and tear, together with a changing grid size and variable girth and length of the lights become the basis of the algorithm.

Bright

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Democracity is inspired by the diorama of the same name at the 1939 New York World's Fair which depicted a utopian city of the future. This piece satirizes the concept showing that the optimism of the 1930's did not account for the problems of the future brought about by climate change such as flooding. This piece is fully interactive with the best way to experience it being to explore and try to understand the stories that the different city layouts are trying to tell you. Note the cities are tileable meaning you can easily edit them together visually ([example](https://bit.ly/3yWCHvn)). 

# Controls

* **Click & drag** - Pan
* **Scroll wheel** - Zoom in and out
* **C** - Change camera mode
* **R** - Reset camera positioning
* **P** - Toggle auto-pan
* **Z** - Zoomed out view
* **T** - Toggle background transparency
* **1-4** - Change detail level

[For Community Testing] Democracity

“Apparitions” is an exploration of the space between algorithmic and organic. Each “Apparition” is unique to the transaction that originated it. Created by Aaron Penne

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