Nothing But Corners

The DVD screensaver with the boring parts taken out.

Artist statement

Everybody has watched the DVD screensaver, and nobody made it for anyone to watch. It existed to keep a TV left on from burning the logo into the screen. Somehow whole rooms of people ended up watching it drift toward a corner and groaning when it missed by a few pixels, which was almost every time.

I called my version Nothing But Corners, because that's all it does. I aim every bounce, so the logo lands in a corner every single time. Click and you get another logo, then another, until the screen fills up with logos landing in corners. Turn the sound on and every corner gets a thump and a cheer, kids yelling "yay" or a round of applause.

Cory Arcangel's Super Mario Clouds hacked a Mario cartridge until only the scrolling sky was left. Both pieces take software everybody already knows and remove part of it.

You were waiting for something else when you watched the real one, a movie to start or someone to find the remote, and it happened to be on. Mine has nothing to wait for, and every logo hits.

Watch it More about it, with how it's made, on joekarlsson.com The code on GitHub