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Blue Vessel

Mobile web app, 2017

Hosted on a server located on a flagless ship drifting on international waters, Blue Vessel invites users to write anonymous web messages by selecting words from the book "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, and learn survival skills from a chaotic browser that disintegrates with each scroll movement. 

Read about this artwork

Digital Oceans & Algorithmic Castaways,  Leonardo, MIT Press, Volume 55, Issue 1, February 2022

Blue Vessel is a project commissioned by Arebyte Gallery 
Made with support from the Dep. for Cultural Affairs - Embassy of Israel 

Curator: Nimrod Vardi 
Web development: Roy Klein and Aziz Natour
AI algorithms: Jonathan Laserson
Animation: Aziz Natour 
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