“desktop is your window to the digital world
desktop is your first step into virtual reality
desktop is a reflection of your individuality
desktop is your everyday visual environment
desktop is an extension of your organs
desktop is the face of your computer

desktop is a question

desktop is the answer”

–Alexei Shulgin, Desktop Is, 1997

  So many description about desktop ,that’s Alexei want to present ; he pointed out the trivial detail  everyone usually skip it . With the passage of time , technology becomes more and more important for human being , and we use computer oftentimes  ,but  is  there anyone who pay  attention to your desktop? What’s the meaning of your desktop? That’s the question artist mention and want everyone to reflect on .

        As with much virtual engagement anonymity and distance from each other can foster an environment seemingly unmoored  from ethics and  human compassion.– Adrienne Jenik, So Far and Yet So Close: Lessons Drawn from Telematic Improvisation, Cyposium the Book, Link Editions, 2014

 Indeed, telematics can give us a kind of intimacy, maybe from anonymity  or maybe it just a kinfd of feeling that  you can sense and virtual things seem  palpable. In stark comparison , Alexei tries to expose personal detail, especially their desktop!! for me , it’s a challenge for virtual world ; besides ,because  work made by artists are  contingent , it sometimes meet their needs to present virtual world (half truth half fault )

 (Promotional video for the Xerox Star 8010 Workstation, 1981)

another work to record old desktop, interesting  comparison with now