In early June 2020, amidst the global disorientation of the COVID-19 pandemic, collective experience took on new dimensions. As social life shifted online, questions arose about visibility, participation, and the absence of embodied togetherness. a colour emerged from this moment of reflection, inspired by conversations and observations of the ways people were simultaneously connected and apart. It asks: what can presence and collaboration look like in a time of disembodiment?

a colour is a minimalist web-based artwork in which the entire screen is filled with a single colour, chosen in real time by any visitor to the site. Built using MQTT protocol to enable live communication across clients, the piece operates as a form of radical, chaotic collaboration: any user can change the colour at any time, and that change instantly affects the view for all users. There is no authorship, no control, and no memory, just a shared, ephemeral negotiation.

This work operates as both an intervention and a poetic reflection on shared digital space. In its simplicity, a colour embodies a temporary commons, an experiment in online collectivity and the aesthetics of consensus (or lack thereof). Developed during lockdown, when face-to-face interaction was impossible, the work foregrounds an active form of presence, where meaning is generated not through permanence or hierarchy but through transient gestures and shared influence.

You can visit the work here.