https://github.com/e-e-e/signatures
An online intervention commissioned for Impakt Festival.
https://github.com/e-e-e/signatures
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An online intervention commissioned for Impakt Festival.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/e-e-e/signatures
- Owner: e-e-e
- Created: 2016-09-06T07:07:46.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-10-12T11:26:57.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-28T22:12:13.288Z (12 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 3.42 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Benjamin Forster, *Signatures*, 2016
This is the javascript code for Benjamin Forster's work Signatures, which was commissioned by [Impakt Festival](www.impakt.nl). Working with the premise of the festival, authenticity in the post-digital age, Forster chose to work with one of the oldest means of authentication; the autograph. Sourced from a *Who's Who in Art* book from 1986 with an appendix of over 350 signatures, his work is a script that runs across every page on the festival website - www.impakt.nl. Benjamin Forster explains: “there is something in the tension between old forms of material trace (embodied) as authentication and the transfer of this into the digital, where this embodiment is replaced by algorithmic process. The illiterates who once signed with an X, always witnessed by someone literate, has become the commonplace - we are all the illiterate now, and the witnesses are mechanical.” Technological advancements have increased the possibilities to identify oneself online. By means of iris scans, selfies, and emoji-sequences, the means for authentication are evolving quickly, and get further and further removed from the old, and sensitive to counterfeiting, signature.
## To install on your own website:
1. Upload the file `signatures.js` and the folder `/signatures_lores` to the base directory of your website.
2. Include the following script tag in the header of your websites html. ``
3. Its that easy.
## To run an illustrative version locally:
1. Install **http-server** from npm. `npm install http-server -g`.
2. Then navigate to the directory containing this code and start the simple server `http-server`.
3. Visit localhost:8080 within your favourite browser to see the work on an example page.