RDWP
2017-ongoing
It is a website made by compiling Haskell code into JavaScript. Using a Haskell library called Reflex, I delved into a functional way of writing a website (thus RDWP stands for Reflex Deep Web Project). It is a mixture of texts, pictures, images, formulas, and algorithms that I found interesting and the “function” that combines them into one website.
Artist Statement
It is a project to create a site similar to “an old Internet site with no clear purpose” or “a game using only HTML and CSS, where you click on links to explore the world” using a functional language called Haskell. The latter site is the “Adventure Game Online’ Labyrinth'” (http://hwm7.gyao.ne.jp/ex328/stage/history.html), which was updated from 1999 to 2007. Compared to programming languages such as JavaScript, C, Python, etc., functional languages have a “mathematical” way of thinking (e.g., the meaning of “=” is not “assignment” but “definition”), which gives them a unique divinity. It is a work that combines my romantic yearning for such technology with my feelings about the Internet culture of the past, especially when I was 10 years old or so. It is still under development, and the contents are being added slowly and gradually.
Visitors use a keyboard and mouse to play it. Many algorithms, shapes, pictures that I found interesting are combined into one app. For example, it contains an algorithm that simulates waves based on physics knowledge, or a blurred picture of a 404 page I took from somewhere on the internet, and so on…
Torajiro
Aida
Torajiro Aida (b.2001, Tokyo) is an artist/programmer/college student/blockchain and AI engineer. His interests are software, technology, cryptography, art, AI, blockchain, randomness, how computers/softwares change society, language, Ancient Chinese philosophy, and religion (like Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius). Favorite languages are Python and Haskell. He won the Newcomer’s Award at the 2018 Japan Media Arts Festival for his work “I’m In The Computer Memory”.