temporality

 The year is 2250.

The colony on the Moon is divided into debaucherous fascists and an underclass of mutants born without genitals.

Follow Frank and Gerry, two mutant bros. By day, they’re forced to salvage through the remains of a porn-filled shuttle that crashed on the Moon's dark side. By night, they plot their revenge.

Gene McHugh is a writer based in Los Angeles
He is the author of Post Internet (2011)

First edition of 500 is co-published by The Composing Rooms and Version House, Cover design by Harm van den Dorpel and Laurel Schwulst

bang bros

A desktop application with achromatopsic computer vision for interpreting images as texts, with ladybugs as alphabetic intermediary

"Curious what would happen if I could ask a computer to interpret an image as a crude sequence of letters, I wrote a program, BUBAMARA-OCR, that could infer a text based on Latin alphabet from an image using a computer vision algorithm. Ladybirds, chosen for their roles as predictive and fateful messengers, both biologically observed and reimagined by generative adversarial networks, were the intermediary between photo and alphabet — each letter having its own corresponding ladybird. Whatever ladybird — each section of the image looked like most determined the letter that the program would output."

[source quote](https://left.gallery/downloads/bubamara-badlands-adriana-ramic.pdf)

offline, interactive, silent, macos and windows 

bubamara ocr

laurel schwulst

"as the camera moves through a hazy field of colours in which a physical reality is yet to crystallise, a semi-transparent sheet flows majestically across the frame as if caught in a gust of wind. perhaps aspirations for a better future may be transient, but nonetheless they must fly" (thomas cuckle)

music and sounds produced and performed by.  
jesse osborne-lanthier and olle holmberg.  
installation photos by tim bowditch

disobedient children

Flight Simulator is a collaboration between Laurel Schwulst and [Soft](https://flightsimulator.soft.works/). It is an app for ios and android and an "Ode to Airplane Mode." Users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited. pins were generated by Aarati Akkapeddi.

[more info](https://flightsimulator.soft.works/)

flight simulator

flight simulator is a collaboration between laurel schwulst and soft. it is an app for ios and android and an "ode to airplane mode." users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited.

@aarati-akkapeddi was commissioned for the pin designs. she explains: "i created code to generate 500 pin designs based on data around the airports such as climate, timezone, number of routes, and altitude. the shape of the pins are according to the altitude (the spikier the higher), the color is a combination of different aspects of the climate, the bubbles on the outer edge symbolize the number of routes, and the size of the center bubble represents the timezone."

pins are algorithmic artwork by @aarati-akkapeddi, 2018   
these enamel versions were selected & produced by laurel schwulst, 2019

flight simulator is a collaboration between laurel schwulst and soft. it is an app for ios and android and an "ode to airplane mode." users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited.

@aarati-akkapeddi was commissioned for the pin designs. she explains: "i created code to generate 500 pin designs based on data around the airports such as climate, timezone, number of routes, and altitude. the shape of the pins are according to the altitude (the spikier the higher), the color is a combination of different aspects of the climate, the bubbles on the outer edge symbolize the number of routes, and the size of the center bubble represents the timezone."

purchase includes one b0 size poster displaying all 495 pins

100 × 141.4 cm / 39.4 × 55.7 "

pins are algorithmic artwork by @aarati-akkapeddi, 2018   
this poster was designed by laurel schwulst, 2019