60,000 Cursor Archive (IRL Exhibition)
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| Date | 07.28.17 |
| Time | 7pm–11pm |
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| Admission | Free |
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| Associated Program | Welcome to my Homepage · IRL |
IRL and Welcome to my Homepage present the IRL exhibition 60,000 Cursor Archive by Everest Pipkin.
Project Description
60,000 collectively-sourced mouse cursors from Geocities-era internet, sorted automatically by machine-vision (as best it can).
Everest Pipkin has collected 60k customized mouse cursors, with imagery ranging from sparkle text to Pokemon to penises to political statements. These 32-pixel wide cursors function as documents of both their time and their makers. Although some of these cursors are new, most are from the Geocities-era internet. With the adoption of Web 2.0 standards, animated cursors have ceased to be supported- so many in the collection are now fossils.
Artist Bio
Everest Pipkin (http://everestpipkin.com/) is a drawing and language artist from the woods outside of Austin, Texas. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin, are a MFA candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, and have shown nationally and internationally at The Design Museum of London, the Texas Biennial, XXI Triennale of Milan, The Victoria & Albert Museum, and others. They produce printed material as books, chapbooks, and zines, as well as digital work in software, bots, and games. They also make drawings by hand, on paper.
