Raphaël Bastide, 2024
Nest is a work that blurs the line between tool and work. It provides a space and a series of parameters for which a viewer, or in this case, user can create a unique piece of their own. If a piece is created using this site, is that then a new work or simply part of the original? The creator Raphaël Bastide is asking the person viewing and manipulating the piece to think about what it means to create and allow others to create. Who owns this new creation? Can it ever exist again? The user is confronted with issues of temporality while using this site, keenly aware that a reload or misclick would change the piece forever. Nest approaches the universality of technology and art by not having written instructions. The only thing necessary to understand and use the site is knowledge of the common symbols and their meanings found in technology across the world. Through these universal symbols, the universal languages of sound and images get created and manipulated. When interacting with the elements present, the meaning becomes apparent at the same time that new meaning is created.