
Please ask me something else
Colin Black, Eszter Polónyi, Jaka Železnikar
Designed for the online environment, the project sits at the intersection of sound art, e-literature, and net art, conceptually drawing on contemporary theoretical reflections on new media. At its core, it explores the conditions of the digital experience as a hybrid space where the aesthetic, technical, and discursive constantly intertwine and co-create specific ways of perceiving, reading, and listening. The work materializes as a dynamic web composition that combines visual, textual, and acoustic layers. The animation, created using advanced CSS techniques, functions not merely as an aesthetic frame but as an active carrier of meaning: its mutability, rhythm, and responsiveness establish a temporal dimension that guides the user through a fragmented yet suggestive narrative. The visual flow is constantly transformed, thereby destabilizing linear perception and opening up space for multifaceted interpretation. The textual component, which moves between poetry and dispersed linguistic units, problematizes the darker aspects of online and broader social culture—from mechanisms of surveillance, exclusion, and violence to subtler forms of self-censorship and erasure. At the same time, the project establishes a tension between these contents and their suppressed or marginalized opposites, often silenced voices. The sound layer connects the visual-semantic structure into an integrated experience. The sound art composition is designed generatively: with each restart or visit, it changes slightly, maintaining a recognizable identity but never reproducing the exact same version. The project thus functions as an open system in which meaning is established through the interaction between code, content, and user perception. In doing so, it addresses not only the aesthetic experience but also critical reflection on the conditions of visibility, audibility, and presence in the contemporary digital environment. As such, it offers a space to reconsider how our cultural expressions are shaped, constrained, and transformed within technological and ideological frameworks that we often take for granted as self-evident and neutral.
