Scallion – an offshoot of The Internet Onion

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Material explorations for an ongoing curation and anthology project, Scallion, that is an offshoot of The Internet Onion. Scallion’s founding document is a minifesto that examines the role of longing in hyperaccelerating technological development and data collection for machine learning models.

With a focus on broadly available commercial large language model “chat” interfaces, the minifesto gathers perspectives across science and technology studies, philosophy, cybernetics, and vernacular discussion of self-identification.

Material explorations of the minifesto include web and print counterparts. Web interpretations saw initial sketches that incorporated block elements, inspired by ASCII art and choose-your-own-adventure games. Print interpretations include iterations of a Python script that sought to lay out the text for plotting on paper of various opacities and a summative collage, assembled by hand, that strives to foreground references and citations.

This project was made possible in part by the Frank-Ratchye Further Fund Microgrant #2025-007.