AdamSL

"Thank you for the thought-provoking comments, Roderick -- and thanks to all the curators for choosing our work!

Lucas and I see this kind of intervention as useful, and potentially radical, because it calls into question users' subjective relationships with their browsers. Too often, people seem to regard the 'browser window' as an actual window, as a view onto immutable objects and permanent spaces, instead of as a mutable piece of software that displays mutable pieces of data. At the very least, we hope that projects like ours can help to shatter this misconception, and to expand users' notions of what is possible.

We are definitely hoping to install the extension in a few public and semi-public computer labs on the 18th and thereafter -- if you know anyone who might be interested, we'd love to coordinate something with them!

And thanks too for the encouragement to more explicitly map out what's happening with this kind of extension, and this kind of occupation, of a browser's core functionalities. This makes me think of how useful a practice-oriented piece of writing might be in this case, i.e. an essay that both describes how an extension like ours works, and also describes where it works and why that space (and that work) is important. It also makes me think of the great work (and great writing) that's being produced by the critical making community, and I'm not sure I would've thought of connection if not for your comments. Much appreciated!"