Alexander Taylor
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Personal projects collated here - for a portfolio of professional work please get in touch.
3GTV
2016 ()
A web-based TV channel dedicated to the one million or so .3gp* files that have found their way onto Youtube, with the option to narrow video selections down to specific regions and categories. With thanks to Rhizome, who commissioned it as part of their microgrants program (see blog post here). Designed to be viewed with Google Chrome.
*A largely extinct file container that was most popular during the first wave of video-playing mobile phones.
Tree HD
2016 ()
Little Fluffy Clouds: Examples of Representations of 'The Cloud' in Marketing Material, Circa 2014
2016 ()
Size: A4
Pages: 28
Format: PDF
Early research that went on to inform my MA thesis (Castles in the Sky: Charting the evolution of the digital cloud through evolutions in its representation).
Blissify.io
2016 ()
A satirical startup-style product exploring the idea of 'filter bubbles': Blissify is a functional browser extension for Google Chrome that uses emotion
detection technology to automatically block the pages that are making the user unhappy. Featured on Fast Co. Design.