Anonymous Animal

Everest Pipkin

Play: Anonymous Animal

Artist Statement

Anonymous Animal is a 15 minute durational browser poem that runs every hour, on the hour.

Using the somewhat-outdated (and rather unstable) web technology of iframes to load and unload pages on a synced clock, Anonymous Animal guides visitors on a collective walk through links, images, wiki pages, and livestreams across the internet. It is an elegy for the era of cross-origin browser requests and off-site embeddable media, as well as a meditation on still being quietly online, together.

About the Artist

Everest Pipkin is a writer, game developer and software artist from Central Texas whose work follows themes of ecology, information theory, and system collapse. As an artist and as a theorist, they fundamentally believe in the liberatory capacity of care; care not as an abstract emotion but rather as a powerful force that motivates collective work towards a better world.

They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and live and work in southern New Mexico. They have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London, The Texas Biennial, The XXI Triennale of Milan, The Photographers Gallery of London, Center for Land Use Interpretation, and other spaces. When not at the computer in the heat of the day, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human.