Dominic Aidan Vetter [leclerq]
With this project I aim to alter the aggregate state of atmospheric dread that dissipated through the now deleted twitter feed of former President Donald Trump and crystallize it into a visually intriguing and possibly psychoactive substance. The project is currently still in development and I am looking for input. I am especially interested in movie suggestions to integrate into the visualization process. The archive generated by PPT-Dread can be viewed on my website: leclerqs-abode.com/ppt-dread
This archive contains approximately 36,000 images, segmented into monthly sub-archives which can be individually accessed by clicking the menu symbol on the left. The archive is in reverse chronological order. There is an analysis display image for every tweet. Each relevant analysis display image is to be found to the right of the corresponding linear gradient lattice. See ‘Method‘ for more detailed information on the analysis process and ‘Concept‘ to better understand what this project is all about.
I have made a short screencast demonstrating the usage of the PPT-Dread web archive and added it as a resource. If you prefer the video can also be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrXokpYwUk
The menu icon on the left shows a list of the current archives content, as well as the archive and data overview loader. To the right, the infinity symbol toggles the full screen mode [best way to view archive on a mobile] and the star symbol in the top righthand corner can be used to hide the UI if undisturbed image viewing is desired. It is possible to zoom all of the images infinitely since they are all SVG files. I advise against spamming the buttons, however, since things will slow down if you do that. Clicking on the arrow between the +/- buttons returns the image to its original size and position. The images are draggable.
This is my GitHub profile: https://github.com/13c13rq
For movie suggestions or general contact feel free to write to PPT-Dread at riseup dot net 🙂
Dominic Aidan Vetter [leclerq]
I studied conceptual art and sculpture under Rita McBride at the Kunst Akademie Düsseldorf and graduated in 2017. My artistic practice evolves around the aesthetics of atmospheres, and how paradigm shifts in perception can evoke cognitive dissonance. I attempt to reflect and alter states of thought through my artistic process, be this through literary, computational or performative means. My code is embodied by the fictional entity leclerq, an alter ego of sorts that came into being in 2016 when I was writing scripts for a performance. I appropriated the name from a side character that appears in an East German Science fiction novel that I was reading at the time. Nowadays I no longer really think of myself as an artist, but rather as an aspiring info architect.