WONDERLISM
Wonderlism.A place to wonder.
Do you remember when technology was magical and not a problem?
The greatest invention of our lifetime — a planet-scale nervous system connecting eight billion minds — and we mostly use it to argue, to scroll, to be sold to, and to feel bad about ourselves. Somehow we built the dream and immediately started strip-mining it.
We reject what technology has become: killer drones, deepfakes, doomscrolling, rage farms, AI slop, engagement bait, dopamine traps, surveillance dressed up as “personalization,”, loneliness machines, parasocial substitutes, dark patterns, crypto scams, hate amplified into algorithms, attention as a commodity, and fake news.
We believe in a different relationship with the screen: Technology should be a tool for wonder, not extraction. It should respond to your body, not your data. It should leave you a little more curious than it found you. It should be playful, surprising, useless in the best possible way. It should remind you that you have a voice, a breath, hands, a tilt, a gaze — that you are not just an account.
Wonderlism is small acts of resistance disguised as art. Things you touch. Things that listen. Things that don’t want anything from you except a moment of your attention, freely given, and freely returned.
The internet is not a lost cause. It’s a place we forgot how to play in.
We’re playing again.
The pieces
10 liveFovea
A heavily blurred reflection of you, with your eyes left as two sharp dots that grow and glow the wider you open them and shrink to a squint. They drive a 303 — open your eyes to sweep the filter, turn your head for resonance, blink to snap it.
Fovea
A heavily blurred reflection of you, with your eyes left as two sharp dots that grow and glow the wider you open them and shrink to a squint. They drive a 303 — open your eyes to sweep the filter, turn your head for resonance, blink to snap it.
Dothaus
A Bauhaus-flavoured grid of breathing dots. Touch and hold still — a halo widens around your finger, freezing the dots inside. Lift the spell and the trapped dots sing back on a quantised 16th-note grid. Multi-touch: each finger keeps its own field.
Dothaus
A Bauhaus-flavoured grid of breathing dots. Touch and hold still — a halo widens around your finger, freezing the dots inside. Lift the spell and the trapped dots sing back on a quantised 16th-note grid. Multi-touch: each finger keeps its own field.
Pigmentivism
Every wavelength can be pigmented, named, swatched, and neatly put into words. The camera samples its frame and floats the dominant pigments back as plucked notes.
Pigmentivism
Every wavelength can be pigmented, named, swatched, and neatly put into words. The camera samples its frame and floats the dominant pigments back as plucked notes.
Thermal Drift
16 cities, live temperature and precipitation, one drifting melody. Each city becomes a note — pitch follows heat, metallic rain percussion follows downpour. Swap cities, cycle through geographic sets, and hear the planet's weather reshape a generative composition in real time.
Thermal Drift
16 cities, live temperature and precipitation, one drifting melody. Each city becomes a note — pitch follows heat, metallic rain percussion follows downpour. Swap cities, cycle through geographic sets, and hear the planet's weather reshape a generative composition in real time.
Mouth Piece
Your mouth, multiplied. Open your mouth to sing an "ahhh". Tap to spawn clones that echo your lip movements with staggered delay. Each mouth sings its own note in harmony.
Mouth Piece
Your mouth, multiplied. Open your mouth to sing an "ahhh". Tap to spawn clones that echo your lip movements with staggered delay. Each mouth sings its own note in harmony.
Resonant Fibers
Pluck hanging vertical strings that split into harmonic subdivisions. Each fiber vibrates at its own frequency, warping space around it.
Resonant Fibers
Pluck hanging vertical strings that split into harmonic subdivisions. Each fiber vibrates at its own frequency, warping space around it.
Drapes
Colourful strings hang from the top. Swipe through them — they sway, collide, and sing acid 303 notes. Where you touch changes the filter. A doorway you can play.
Drapes
Colourful strings hang from the top. Swipe through them — they sway, collide, and sing acid 303 notes. Where you touch changes the filter. A doorway you can play.
Phase
A grid of metronomes drifts out of sync. Touch resyncs a cluster. Steve Reich on a Swiss poster.
Phase
A grid of metronomes drifts out of sync. Touch resyncs a cluster. Steve Reich on a Swiss poster.
Artificial Throat
A typographic poem machine. Drop words onto a blank field — drag them around, and each is sung in a Speak & Spell voice synthesised live. Up is high, down is low, left plays first.
Artificial Throat
A typographic poem machine. Drop words onto a blank field — drag them around, and each is sung in a Speak & Spell voice synthesised live. Up is high, down is low, left plays first.
Umbra Theory
A room of invisible sculptures revealed only by their shadows. Drag the sun across the sky and listen as silhouettes sing their hidden geometries.
Umbra Theory
A room of invisible sculptures revealed only by their shadows. Drag the sun across the sky and listen as silhouettes sing their hidden geometries.
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