SWARM
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The swarm is steered with your finger.
You touch, you drag, and the direction changes: where you pass you pour in new matter, so you draw, and in the same stroke you deform the current, so you move.
When you lift your finger nothing stops. What you set in motion keeps going, mixes into the rest, and from that moment on the work will never again pass through the state you would have found it in had you not touched it.
One HTML file. There is no image inside it: the work is the code, and it draws itself in the browser while you watch.
The work reads the real sun above N 41°19' E 16°17'. At night it dims. And it ages: over the years the matter wears down, slowly, and it does not come back.
And the next day it does not start from zero.
The work remembers every stroke ever made on it, and when you reopen it, it replays them all in order before it lets itself be seen. It does not save an image: it saves the gestures, and the current is deterministic, so replaying them rebuilds exactly the point where you left it. Whoever opens it a year from now sees the sum of every hand that has passed over it.