Media Archaeology Lab's KidPix Art Show, by Media Archaeology Lab

Catalog view is the alternative 2D representation of our 3D virtual art space. This page is friendly to assistive technologies and does not include decorative elements used in the 3D gallery.

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Statement:

We love KidPix! There are some pieces of software that have a particular sort of nostalgic attachment, a way of resting in the consciousness of even those who may never have used them.

These pieces are all submitted by the community and represent a wide range of artist ages, skill levels, and levels of familiarity with the program. They also represent a wide range of artistic styles and content choices.

While there is no explicit work in the exhibit, there are some themes that may be upsetting including knives, skulls/skeletons and bugs. Please use your own discretion.

Artworks in this space:

Artwork title

... (dot, dot, dot)

Artist name Ben Sisto (he/him/his)

Artwork Description:

From the artist: Kicked off by me; executed by Kid Pix. A collaboration with the in-browser app version.

I noticed with the 'dot splash' tool, holding the mouse down meant Kid Pix just kept adding more dots; it felt very painterly — Damien Hirt's spots, Yayoi Kasama, and all that...but still true to the nature of the app and fun of the prompt.

A time limit to frame the idea a bit more: Noticed Kid Pix was created 33 years ago in '89...It happens that 1989 divided by 60 (seconds) was also about 33 (33.15). So, 33-ish minutes felt right.

I opened the app, selected the dot-splash tool, set a timer for 33-ish minutes, and placed a weight on my mouse to keep the button depressed. I screen recorded this, if you ever want that, too.

My submission to this show is the image as it looked when I eventually released the button, around 33 min in.

I think it draws about 6 dots a second; hard to say for sure as some are white. But if that's the average, then 33 min x 60 sec x 6 dots per sec = 11,880 dots.

A rectangular frame completely filled with different colored and sized dots.

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Clara Bower

Artwork Description:

this was the best game on the school computers, back in my elementary school days, and I'm delighted to discover it still slaps.

a pixelated abstract streetscape, in purples and teals. headlights come toward the viewer on the right side, and taillights go away on the left. purple lights line either side.

Artwork title

Flag

Artist name Logan K. Young

A field of broken green vertical and horizontal lines over a black background. The top left corner has been "swirled" to give a wavelike effect, causing some lines to curve.

Artwork title

Pod Clock

Artist name Nikki Biefel

A figure in the center wears a hat, vest, white shirt, and grey pants, with a belt that has pouches and a backpack. The background is multicolored and gives the suggestion of plants in a jungle or elaborately printed wallpaper.

Artwork title

Into The Light

Artist name Brett Halperin

Artwork Description:

Twitter: @bretthalp
Instagram: @j3rett
Portfolio: bretthalperin.com

the words "Into The Light" written in all of the kidpix stamps representing light - bulbs, lightning, stars, candles and etc. - over a backdrop that appears as a tapestry of colored lights and lightning bolts. A border is made up of suns and lightning bolts and angel wings.

Artwork title

badlands

Artist name ponyo5191

Artwork Description:

instagram: ponyo5191

Red canyon walls in front of a grey sky, two birds fly in the distance. In the foreground a small creek is lined with greenery, nearby are several cacti.

Artwork title

trees

Artist name ponyo5191

Artwork Description:

instagram: ponyo5191

In the foreground a lake, lined with treed hills. These recede into rocky peaks. Ponyo!!! is written in the top right corner.

Artwork title

Girls Like Us Will Leave You Gagging

Artist name Michael Fowler / sm00pa

Artwork Description:

Twitter: @sm00pa

Abstract bear face over a grey background. Hearts for eyes and the suggestion of blade sunglasses. a hand gives an upsidedown peace sign, with long red nails. The words "Girls like us will leave you gagging" are written on the right side in many colors and lettering styles

Artwork title

Red cat plays chess problems on the computer

Artist name Alex

A drawing of a computer screen on the left side has a chess board on it, and a red and white cat uses the mouse to play chess. A lamp is on the right behind the cat.

Artwork title

an octopus & a duck picking mushrooms in an upside-down forest. a squirrel is coming across the forest & a cat is defying gravity

Artist name Nomi

Artwork Description:

twitter: @the_nomi

an orange octopus floating in a bed of clouds plucks a blue mushroom from an upside-down tree. a white duck holds a basket of many-colored musrooms. a black cat floats above the octopus. behind them all are many trees both right-side up and upside down, in many colors of blue, sprouting mushrooms of all kinds

Artwork title

Susan Kare

Artist name Nomi

Artwork Description:

twitter: @the_nomi

Realistic drawing, Susan Kare lounges on a gray backdrop, smiling, wearing bluejeans and a grey sweatshirt and red and gray new balance shoes. She is surrounded by stamps and patterns of all sorts in many bright colors.

Artwork title

Laurence Fishburne as Othello

Artist name Nomi

Artwork Description:

twitter: @the_nomi

realistic drawing of Lawrence Fishburne with a goatee, wearing an Elizabethan style leather vest and white shirt with puffy sleeves, and gold earrings. his arms are crossed and he is looking to the left. behind him an orange background is decorated with green plants and stamps of people and creatures.

Artwork title

Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley

Artist name Nomi

Artwork Description:

twitter: @the_nomi

A blue man dressed in a white suit with white bandaging wrapped around his head, floats in a black space. He has chains wrapped around his body that are attached to a lockbox and keys. the black space is accented with blue lines and blue outlined cubes, some with purple scribbles inside, and a single lightning bolt over the figure's right shoulder

Artwork title

Mirage

Artist name Lizstar

Artwork Description:

From the artist: It had to be that small cause of saving limitations on my Windows 98 PC!

I made it years ago on my stream on my childhood CD of Kidpix Deluxe, which is still sitting around somewhere and I occasionally break out to make Bob Ross inspired pieces like this. This is by far the best one, though. I think Bob would really appreciate us making art inspired by his videos using outdated and silly software like Kidpix!

A semi-abstract desert landscape, two large cacti in the foreground on the right with a red river in the center extending to the distance. Brown and maroon hills extend to maroon mountains, an orange sun is on the horizon in a pink and purple sky with the suggestion of wispy clouds

Artwork title

Bluebird

Artist name bikedog

Artwork Description:

Blue background with a yellow sun, in the foreground there is a floating island with grass and brown rocks on the top and exposed dirt underneath, the suggestion of icicles flowing from it at three points. on top, a bluebird sits on a rock.

Artwork title

Basil

Artist name @jonathanvair

Artwork Description:

An anthropomorphic cougar wearing blue shorts and a headband lounges on a patterned rug, holding a sword. a tea set is in front of him, sitting in the grass. There are several other rugs around, and in the background the suggestion of trees and buildings. A bubble floats to the left of the cat, over his shoulder

Artwork title

localghost

Artist name d0n.xyz

abstract geometrics in blue and purple on a black background. webs and lightning bolts and spirals inside and outside of two suggested brackets. d0n.xyz is scrawled across the bottom

Artwork title

picnic at prospect park

Artist name warren

Artwork Description:

a picnic on grassy green hills with trees in the background. the central tree has oranges. there are many many animals of all kinds, eating and flying kites. all the creatures are made with the built-in stamps and are very cute.

Artwork title

I went to earth and all I got was this stupid shirt.

Artist name Victor Castaneda H

the background is a checkerboard pattern of many colors. in the top left corner a purple and blue and red eye/sun hovers, over an abstracted city scape being attacked by yellow centipedes made of sun stamps and ufos made of CDs shooting lasers. on the right a creature with two big eyes in a purple face looks out at the viewer with a gaping mouth.

Artwork title

Mustard City

Artist name Alyssa B Keil

an abstracted cityscape in mostly yellow with accents of rainbow colors

Artwork title

Circus Tent

Artist name Alyssa B Keil

An abstracted rainbow construction on a black background

Artwork title

Purple Gotham

Artist name Alyssa B Keil

creatures dance on a rainbow abstract construction over a purple background

Artwork title

Design Uncentered Milk Label

Artist name Ethan Omo

Black and white stripes interspersed with a black and white gridded swirl and multicolored dots. Towards the top left, a green circle with a red circle inside of it, with purple text reading "A KidPix Picture By" and black text reading "OOM
OMO
MOM
MOO"
And below that black text reading WWW THIS with a strawberry for a dot.

Artwork title

6 Ft

Artist name Parker Davis

An abstracted green figure wearing pink pants in a brown coffin. Scribbly text reads '6 FT' in the lower right corner.

Artwork title

Poetry

Artist name Parker Davis

A tan figure in the center with a green head and a black and pink mohawk tail stands in front of a suggestion of a board that has a red robot drawing and the letters "ABC" on it. A speech bubble says "POETRY"

Artwork title

Townscape

Artist name Parker Davis

Artwork title

toonmemoriez

Artist name Parker Davis

An arachnid-like creature of human arms and legs under abstract yellow, magenta and black markings

Artwork title

Horse meets cat

Artist name Lis Wal

A yellow cat meets an orange and black horse over a brown background

Artwork title

Chill Dude

Artist name AeonicB

A purple stick figure giving a thumbs up surfs in black space, over the suggestion of an earth facing away from an orange sun.

Artwork title

the calling

Artist name bao!

A black background with radial red objects on the left side and red lines on the right. White grids are under the red. Across the top a suggestion of flowering ribbons.

Artwork title

TECHNOLOGY IS AMAZING

Artist name Vitamin C

Artwork Description:

@thatpikminguy

A multicolored representation of a computer screen, with trees on the screen and a plaid like pattern behind. 2 red hearts adorn the screen.

Artwork title

Borderless Error

Artist name @danidoubleyou

A purple textured background over which a yellow and black arcing graph fills the lower left corner extending up to the right, and a square and circle in yellow, magenta and blue strips fill the top right corner.

Artwork title

01211/topo

Artist name paupowpow

A textured suggestion of multicolored mountains over a grey background

Artwork title

00324/no tether

Artist name paupowpow

a green and blue swirling geometric shape over a black background

Artwork title

00347/xrx cosmos

Artist name paupowpow

A pixellated black and white suggestion of a galaxy, with a detailed view in the center

Artwork title

giraffe, window, flea

Artist name squeeegee

Black background with white boxes cascading from top left to bottom right. The text "Sometimes I Think I Can Hear It" and "Do you have a mouth" is over and through the boxes in dark gray, almost illegible.

Artwork title

Get Lost

Artist name JacksonSketch

A multicolored background of geometric shapes, over which a black stick figure pushes another black stick figure. The pusher says "Play lost ark" and the pushed says "no"

Artwork title

Easy Reader

Artist name Sixgilis

Artwork Description:

https://www.lonniegarcia.com/

A foxlike creature with a mane of flower petals has a worm like creature emerging from its mouth. multi-colored wormy flowers surround it. A moon smiles in the top right corner.

Artwork title

Clusterduck emerging from the internet of people and things

Artist name Clusterduck

Artwork Description:

Clusterduck is an interdisciplinary collective working in the fields of new media, design and art, investigating processes and actors behind the creation of digital content. Their projects often lay a special focus on the study of memetic symbology.

The KidPix user interface reads KidPix: Clusterduck. a yellow doglike creature in the center of a magenta and blue and cyan map with many different creatures. the bottome reads Clusterduck.space

Artwork title

Stabby Stab Stabbity Stab Stab Stab (in the virtual world)

Artist name Ava Heller

A hand holds a large knife over an abstract background. Black and white and gray

Artwork title

Self-Portrait-Care

Artist name Mikhaela Boyles

an abstract portrait of a person smiling with purple hair, green skin, undereyes like butterfly wings, caterpillars for eyebrows.

Artwork title

Early Evening

Artist name @toomuchistrue

Black rectangle on top, white rectangle on the bottom, both outlined in red. Outlines of circles in yellow go across the bottom of the black rectangle.

Artwork title

null island cartography

Artist name will sōderberg...

Marbled black, red and blue geometric elements over a white background, suggesting a map that got caught in a blender

Artwork title

pleasant dreams

Artist name stargyaru

A long haired figure with eyes closed sits at a desk, with a thought bubble full of skulls and spiders

Artwork title

Dreamers Entombed

Artist name Louie Zong

3 yellow towers in front of a starry blue sky with white clouds. 4 windows in the central tower have small faces inside

Artwork title

Glitch 2.0

Artist name Killian Cullity (age 11)

Swirling yellow, black, white, orange and purple, with small rectangular copies of different sections layered over the top

Artwork title

planet kitty

Artist name onebigear

The kid pix starting splash screen, but the bottom right corner has been overtaken by catlike figure with creatures living on its back

Artwork title

inside windows

Artist name Zackery Schierer

a gray blue background with gray green rectangles over the top, each a different abstract window scene.

Artwork title

inside wind0w

Artist name Zackery Schierer

green and black wide stripes with outlined parallelograms in gray and yellow. a dinosaur and a plane. a line of ants.

Artwork title

Intensity and the Mundane

Artist name Jackie Liu

A ten-panel comic arranged in 3 rows of 3 with the 10th panel in the bottom center.
panel 1: a starry sky, the words "This February I spent some time reading a book about love" in white
panel 2: an extension of the starry sky, with some topographic suggestions. the words "according to it, we desire love so badly because it makes us feel like we can reach beyond the "topography of everyday reality""
panel 3: a frame with 2 figures, a closer frame of a hand. the words "a tender caress can shed the layers of the mundane"
panel 4: a frame with two faces nearly kissing, a smaller frame with 2 hands touching. behind the frames suggestions of radiowaves. the words "To access a more transcendental existential frequency"
panel 5: A face, half 2-tone white and blue, half colored in, split diagonally. the words "For a fleeting moment i remembered what it was like. deep presence. intesity. passion. the sublime. surrender. the feeling of falling outside time."
panel 6: a figure wearing a mask and a striped shirt and a crossbody bag, outside. the words "The fabric of ordinary life these days is a numbing weave of mendacity and devastation. For a long time I’ve been living as a shell of myself."
panel 7: a clipboard with a checklist and a pencil. the words "But lately I’m starting to crave more. I try to take inventory of the little things that make me feel here, and feel real."
panel 8: a plate of food and a window with a curtain over it "Sharing a good meal. The sunlight when it goes through my sheer curtains."
panel 9: an ice skater, a city view out a train window. the words "Watching Nathan Chen beat a world record. Taking the q at just the right time"
panel 10: a small frame, a close up of a woman's face with a mask on. the larger frame, a woman looks out a window sitting on a bench. the words "Maybe the ability to yearn again is its own form of hope. Fin."

Artwork title

Service With A Smile!

Artist name Cory McKague

Jeff Bezos in a cowboy hat and red cape/bandana stands on the moon in a ray of blue light, with saturn in the background, holding up an amazon box

Artwork title

Screen Test

Artist name Maeve Mallers

A pale blue background with white line figures, outlines of square boxes, mathematical notations, a green graph, and swirling blue and gray clouds

Artwork title

Jump-o-tron

Artist name Elise Schierbeek

gray background with blue and red checkerboard, brown abstract figures, tan blocks of color, and many many rabits

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Iris Luo

a black background with many squares of pale yellow and lavendar and lines of purple and pink

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Ethan Proia

lavender, brown and teal bands of color with multicolored circles, brown squares, and swirling patterns

Artwork title

ow it hurts

Artist name Ethan Proia

green and black moire pattern with a circle suggested in the top left quadrant

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Yash Flee

Pink background with darker pink and cyan clouds in the center like candies

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Ashley Peresie

black background with suggestions of trees and organic shapes in gray, blocked out in smaller white-outline frames

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Clark Woods

a large pink circle with white star shapes over it, a blue and purple pool and white and red patterns in the back. the words CONTAINMENT BREACH in white and yellow

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Clark Woods

a roll of toilet paper on a red wall. a white wall with the words "All that shits doesn't wipe" in blue repeating letters

Artwork title

untitled

Artist name Clark Woods

A suggestion of a table in a room with a checkered background, the words WAKE UP on the tabletop

Artwork title

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Artist name SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY

a tan background with black and green lines mapping across it, with many symbols scattered across the field

Artwork title

Cigarette Skeleton

Artist name OhMandaz

head and shoulders view of a skeleton with a cigarette in its teeth

Artwork title

Brain Itch

Artist name OhMandaz

a pink cat head with a heart on its forehead, on a green and pink background, with the suggestion of a game interface down either side in black bars framing the image. The words BRAIN ITCH in orange above and below the cat head

Artwork title

Guernica Revisited

Artist name Curtis Tucker

A horse in the center overlayed with many squares holding brick patterns, faces, abstract patterns

Artwork title

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well

Artist name Adrienne / toasty_rolls

Artwork title

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Artist name Adrienne / toasty_rolls

Artwork title

After Joe

Artist name Michelle Taransky

the words Lies on My repeated a number of times, over purple and pink and black circular markings. stamps of cacti and computers outline the text.

Artwork title

Cat Planet

Artist name Rani Das

Artwork Description:

Name - Rani Das
School- Kerr Elementary, Allen Texas
Grade- 1st

two pink creatures with cat ears next to a yellow sun. one says Mrow!. the one with wings is labeled Cat Gem, the smaller is labeled Kitten Gem

Artwork title

Cat Planet

Artist name Rani Das

Artwork Description:

Name - Rani Das
School- Kerr Elementary, Allen Texas
Grade- 1st

a blue and a brown cat figure on a water-like ground with a yellow sun. the blue cat is labeled sky cat and the brown is labeled common cat.