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Artists: Caden Chung, Satine Cumming, Darcy Hatcher, Lorenzo Hinojosa, Xander King, Samvel Krajian, Katie Luo, Nicolas Magaloni, Katrina Meng, John Miranda, Nikhita Rao, Aline Tamy Saruhashi, Faith Smith, Tyler White, Grace Whitman, Julianne Wong

Instructor & Curator: Qianqian Ye

Student Assistant: Katherine Yang

It begins with and ends with , and infinite possibilities await therein. Rich, complex, and beautiful things can burst forth from between the deceptive simplicity of two opening and closing HTML tags. Upon a white browser page, each paragraph and image and canvas, perhaps the odd form or table, fills in color and shape and texture, until a unique composition emerges that tells a story and lights something up in us, the way all good art does.

Throughout the past semester, the artists/coders of USC Media Arts + Practice’s IML 300 have dedicated countless hours learning how to write in the languages of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—first in blank-stared frustration, then with gradually fewer thoughts of computer-cide, and, towards the end, if they were so blessed by Brackets, sometimes even with joy, and—oh, after all that: these are just new tools and this is still just art. The results of their labor are these web-based artworks, keenly resonant as shining examples of how we can offer care, make tongue-in-cheek play, provide healing, inspire action, and facilitate agency. Here, they lay out their works, inviting visitors to engage with their explorations of interactivity, non-linear hypertexts, networked justice, and ask: what do you like to plant within and ?
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