Its nostalgic Apple OS desktop interface links to two folders one, leads to site information, and the second, to a list of submitted desktop images. The Desktop Is site is a deteriorated time capsule. The two projects are echoes that present voyeuristic peeks into artists’ personal virtual working spaces on public websites. To him the desktop is “the (virtual) space that serves as the foundation of the working environment.” Cruces and Shulgin, however, channel the same curiosity. Its final lines claim in paradox, “desktop is a question, desktop is the answer.” Cruces’s description of Desktop Views is more straightforward and less poetic. Ĭruces frames Desktop Views with a quote from Alexei Shulgin’s legendary Desktop Is project, created 15 years earlier in 1997, at the dawn of “net.art.” The quote, taken from the about page of Shulgin’s project, uses the title Desktop Is as an iterative I Ching -style manifesto about the desktop. Cruces collected 51 images of artists’ desktops including a number of artists he worked with in his earlier project STATE. In January, Adam Cruces wrapped up his Desktop Views project. The image of your desktop becomes an intimate self-portrait and the impulse to decode an unfamiliar desktop is unavoidable. A desktop exhibits a diagram of your organizational habits and a screenshot of it captures a brief moment of its functional evolution. It speaks to the aesthetics of a particular work-flow and personal space. A desktop is a changing record of visual decisions.
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