Becoming Hypertext is a workshop on poetic and experimental ways of creating and reading the site, browser, and the desktop. It considers hypertext as a mode of performance, attending to the non-linear ways we engage with text and form on the internet.

July 11–13, 2025
Secret Riso Club, Brooklyn, NY

( ♥ Performing the browser ♥ )

Teacher: Chia Amisola
Assistant teacher: Kaloyan Kolev

This weekend will be a space to create tiny sites, intervene on other sites, and discovering new ways of performing with our desktop and browsers. Our computers will become landscapes, with sites as our instruments.

Becoming Hypertext

Schedule

July 11, Friday

Optional mixer, screenings, performances

We'll share some of our favorite sites that stretch the boundaries of the web

July 12, Saturday

Exploring the site, the browser, and the desktop

A series of exercises where we will 'become hypertext'

July 13, Sunday

Working time + small showcase and sharing

2–5 minute presentations, prompts, and sharing

+ Class Notes +

Exercises