SPEEDRUNHOME.PAGE
Iframe, 2022
Sold
About the artwork
With development support from KT Duffy. Originally on view 7 April – 7 May 2022, commissioned by curator Logan Williams for pleasurehome: desiring queer space, Art Museum, University of Toronto. Over the course of 30 days, SPEEDRUNHOME.PAGE presents an HTML/CSS-constructed “speedrun” of queer spaces. The work is meant to be viewed from time to time, set as a viewer's browser homepage. Each day for thirty days it offers a refreshed set of poetry, images and found footage that reflect on how queerness is mobilized in the space of the day — along with the pleasures and discontents — in pursuit of finding “home.” Directly inspired by Anna Anthropy's 2008 video game Mighty Jill Off, SPEEDRUNHOME.PAGE draws on the Girl in the Tower trope of many popular video games and fantasy stories, inviting viewers to reflect on the pleasure of the process (Work) as well as the goal.
SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a Virginia-based new media artist and poet. Known for her noisy experimental electronics and performance practice, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of computer programming and sadomasochism into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally since 2012 in spaces like Performance Space New York, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.
SHAWNÉ is currently a co-director of netizen.org and Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. At VCU, she runs media arts programming through her lab, THE P.A.T.C.H. CLINIC, where she leads research and development on #realtimeMedia and expanded cinema projects that result in free and accessible educational materials, exhibitions, and/or interdisciplinary coursework. Additionally, SHAWNÉ is 1/2 of the ambient sound project duo BONE LATTICE and a chatty 5 AM club gym girl/bodybuilder type that happens to be an avid Star Trek watcher and fencing enthusiast.