I Want a Temple of Spirit

Miaoye Que

Advisor: Theo Ellin Ballew

I Want a Temple of Spirit is a collection of web art that centers around the poetics in the mundane—how we embrace nature, confront our longings, and forge intimacy—all through the affordances of the browser.

Project Website Presentation
A screenshot from piece Making Constellations

Abstract

I Want a Temple of Spirit contains five distinct pieces of web art work: 一一, SOMA, Thinking in Circles, I Feel Like If I Condensed My Eating Schedules Together I'd Be Eating All Day, and Making Constellations.

A screenshot from piece Making Constellations

Technical Details

All the pieces in this collection were handmade, that is, to quote J.R. Carpenter's writing—web pages made and maintained by individuals rather than by businesses or corporations; web pages which are provisional, temporary, or one-of-a-kind; web pages which challenge conventions of reading, writing, design, ownership, privacy, security, or identity. All websites were written with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, and various open-source JavaScript libraries.