Peckish (2023)

Peckish is an interactive generative browser-based animation, in which a range of urban birds inhabit procedurally generated environments on different servers, and occasionally seek nourishment from objects and organisms they encounter. True to its name, the work scrimps on energy expenditure by enforcing a no-media approach to web design inspired by the resilience and resourcefulness of city-dwelling birds.

Peckish was produced collaboratively with Joe McKay, and co-written using p5.js as a commissioned new work through an open call process. Commissioned by Solar Protocol for Sun Thinking, an exhibition that brings together artists, writers, and researchers to explore the qualities and logics of solar power and solar powered computing networks.

• Visit Sun Thinking.

• View an artist talk about Peckish (4 minutes).

• Direct link to Peckish for desktop or mobile phone (*On phone, launch project, then scroll to tap enter.)

• ‘Sun Thinking’ Exhibit Explores the Potential of a Solar-Powered Internetpotential-of-a-solar-powered-internet/, Mozilla Foundation, April 11, 2023.