https://workarounds.hotglue.me

Abstract

This document serves as a record of https://workarounds.hotglue.me, which is both an artwork and a thesis. It encompasses the approaches, research, and speculations of workarounds, broadly defined as the flexibility and adaptability of a material or system. This work was conducted and organized in an inquiry-driven, unprescribed, meander-based process. Its responsive and fluid approach underlies the method of operation in this artistic practice and the conceptual framework of its content. For the purpose of this archive, it has been documented and flattened, resulting in a single, definitive outcome. Beyond the paginated presentation of this PDF, navigation of the website itself is unordered and unfixed. By design, it is intended to be easily edited, added to, and navigated freely (as new perspectives and information come into play). There is no end point, menu, or home button. The bottom of each entry contains subject tags that link to a common index, bridging points of research that are seemingly unrelated with a bird’s-eye perspective. The interactive index is the infrastructure that identifies and joins. While various pages connect to one another (some extend to external sites), with this index, a user could also choose to focus on a specific subtopic.