“Crystalline work is present in the browser for a global audience. For me, this space—the phone, the screen—it’s the key interface for public art. And WebGL is the key medium for it right now.”
– Irish artist
John Gerrard, opining that browser-based art is the ultimate public art. Discussing his imminent Feral File launch with
Casey Reas, Gerrard talks through the conceptual motivations behind his “data performance”
crystalline work (arctic) (2024-25) and explains that the
WebGL graphics library democratizes access to it. [quote edited]
