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Exquisite Branch |
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The exquisite corpse is a multiplayer game invented by the surrealists in which the participants compose a drawing or a story together. |
Traditionally the game is played on a long sheet of paper, and each player draws a part. |
The process requires to hide the drawing to the next person, but leaving them some hints to continue. |
The following fellow keeps draw from there and so on. |
The result is a weird linear narrative, in which the transition between authors are at the same time smooth and abrupt. |
The Exquisite Branch is an online take on the game. |
It questions concepts such as authorship and collaboration in the light of the digital age. |
The original version is constrained to the single piece of paper and is doomed to be linear. |
Here we can imagine our drawings forking and branching and go in different directions. |
The way in which XB works recall the flows of a protocol like Git. |
Instruction |
There are 2 ways to get to the XB |
either you navigate to https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/xquisite |
or you receive a link from someone pointing to a specific branch |
you can either start a new drawing, continue from the last contribuition or view all the branches |
then it's time to scribble something or paint a masterpiece |
and when you are done you can submit the drawing |
you will receive a new link to share with others. |
They will continue from your drawing, so leave some hints! |
If you pass the link to just one person the xquisite drawing will continue linearly |
but if you pass it to several people it will branch |
resulting in multiple version with a common starting point. |
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