me

me, doriane

I'm Doriane. I'm a Trans woman. I grew up in Belgium and live in Bruxelles.

I like to think about systems and automatised processes as sensible mediums. I try to question tools by looking on what they make us do, as much as what they do. I have an infinite love for the idea of designing with words and language.

In 2021 I joined Open Source Publishing, where i make websites & conversations.

Since 2023, I coordinate an artistic research on CSS and the crafts of designing with language, called Declarations.

I consider to be part of a situated network of digital-craft-political practices, I often travel like to meet or join people on my own variation of that network: doing workshops, performances, projects, or simply sharing gossips as to build situated knowledge. I believe that collaboration lives in a slower manner, outside of the well-defined scope of a particular project, but as meeting and caring for specific links and energies. My current constellation include Constant in Bruxelles, Varia & Xpub in Rotterdam, Hackers & Designers in Amsterdam, le nuage était sous nos pieds in Marseille, and internationnally Creative Crowds, (and sometimes a bit of) LURK, TITiPI, An Algoliterary Publishing House, Permacomputing, PrePostPrint.

I deeply love cooking for others. Walking is my favorite transportation mode. I've a feral desire to be more than one.

declarations

Declarations

Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on design-artistic practices and our daily lives. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.

shelf & board

I have this as my personnal website since like 2022 now. I think inconsciously I made it in a way that allow to never be fully designed, to be powered by the energy of change. It can accumalte things that have no precise hierarchy or category, but by doing so, it becomes it's own ever-changing collage of traces, symbols and links.

a shelf in my room
a board in my room

If you ever want to make a personnal website that feels alive, I think you have to accept that it's like a room: iterating between moments of cosy messiness, and moment of cleaning and sorting that are also good for the soul. The more you will force everything into a pre-fixed structure, the less it will feel like a space where someone's living.

howspot

Howspots

Howspots are pedagogic moments to share situated knowledge about everyday technology for everyone (especially your friends) by doing short specific tasks together, to reclaim some digital autonomy.

leaving becoming

teaching

  • blend-mode

    A workshop at Sint-Lukas, Antwerp about remixing already made websites as user-hackers through browser-extensions, questionning our agency as individuals and collectivities on web-design.

  • websites fabulations

    A workshop at Constant where we craft browser-extension as user-hackers to modify every websites at once, speculating alternative webs.

  • Cobbled paths

    A workshop with gijs de heij at besancon on an experimental tool that convert ascii FIGlet font to continuous svg in order to pen-plot them.

  • wiki scratching

    A workshop at le 75 about giving new themes to specific articles of wikipedia in collaborative way using etherpad.

  • Wonderful Websites Pedagogy

    A list of ressources adressed to both designers and amateurs that tries to tell a multiplicity of bright opportinities websites can be.

  • Etherdot

    A workshop with Gijs de Heij at Karlsruhe about using Graphviz DOT language to create graphs on technological standards through etherpad.

  • etherstyling Wikipedia

    A workshop with Amélie Dumont at Mainz about giving new themes to specific articles of wikipedia in collaborative way using etherpad.

  • Declarative Companion

    A workshop at le 75 about describing everyday objects and crafting webpages out of those descriptions.

this feral desire

tools

  • cobbled paths

    a figlet 2 svgbob.rs 2 hpgl pipeline. it makes a way from the blocky discontinuity of Ascii drawings, to the smoothness of bezier curves, to an anologic pen-plotter interpretation.

  • against

    A conflicting tool about web named color and accessibility standards.

  • seashell resonnance

    a tool to make web music list

websites

  • tekhne.website

    A collaborative website for research on music. The logo is created through SVG filters, taken from Inkscape and translated to the web, changing everytime as some visual generative synth.

  • cifas.be

    "Performing art in the city and its fringe". The website is devided into liquid and solid states that nourrishes each others. Tags and people act like desire paths, motivating exploration.

  • moonwalks.be

    Moon walks in the Forest organised by Anaïs Berck. The typography vary according to the current phase of the moon. The color theme varies according to wether it's day or night in Bruxelles.

  • Oscillation festival (2022)

    2022 edition of Q-O2 Oscillation festival. The page reshape itself by activating or hidding sections. A dynamic SVG drawing grows according the number of people connected on the page, playing with the idea of audience.

  • Meyboom

    Economical webpage for the collectivity of artists at Meyboom. The navigation is a simple handcrafted interactive SVG map.

  • Balsamine 2021-2022

    Website for The Théâtre la Balsamine whe the agenda works like a responsive dynamic landscape.

  • alchorisma.constantvzw.org

    Online publication on Constant's Alchorisma worksession. A website where hyperlinks between pages are inserted algorithmically, common words between two texts becomes pathways.

a web sticker

craft

my favorite color

hsl(162, 70%, 54%)
the both intense and conforting sound of something plunging into water and the following sub-bass silence, a deep breath that extends to all parts of the body

astrology

SUN ♑︎ - ASC. ♌︎ - MOON ♍︎

ungual & digital

digital
relating to a finger or fingers.
ungual
relating to or affecting a nail, hoof, or claw.
a screenshot of the codex seraphinianus with a nail writting

writing

  • Declarations proposal

    This text served as an application for a research proposal for FRART 2023

archived projects

  • Elements by Element

    prints graphic interpretations of the file folder structure of a USB storage device, according to different themes.

  • Actual Art Tips by Actual Artists

    an installed system that extracts and broadcasts the most popular art tips from Youtube, one sentence per day.

  • Personnal Data Blade

    custom daggers generated with code based on personnal data Facebook archives.

friends urls

Elsewhere

you can send me emails at doriane@ungual.digital