Naive Yearly, 2024
Naive Yearly, 2024
At the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dear reader
OMG.
It’s happening,
again!
Naive Yearly celebrates the quiet, odd, and poetic web. It is a physical extension of this newsletter, and you are invited to join on September 20th.
This year, we meet at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a Renaissance castle surrounded by greenery and next to the Ljubljanica River. I visited the museum two months ago. It was a pinch-me moment: the castle is the perfect combination of real and surreal, just like the internet.
Naive Yearly is the biggest gift I have given myself. It is an excuse to gather many of my favorite people from the internet. People whose websites and words I regularly feature in this newsletter. It is an attempt to nurture a new language for the internet, to insist on the internet as a medium for creative expression, to expand what the internet is and can be, and to keep the internet alive.
Last year, people joined from a dozen countries, many traveled alone, and many were unsure what to expect, but everyone I have spoken with left with new friendships and high hopes for the internet.
I hope to meet you this year. Thank you1.
With care
Kristoffer
Ps. you can get tickets and find the speakers on https://naiveyearly.com/ :)
Wayside flowers
https://computer-ambiences.glitch.me/
https://kawaiiyuri.com/fishy/sun2.html
http://choong.city/happyplant/
Field notes
1.
»For the first time on a computer screen you could situate yourself within. You the cursor.«
— emma rae bruml with a lovely reflection on the history of the computer mouse.
3.
»No one person sets the pace of the web. But one person should set the pace of their experience of it.«
— Christopher Butler with a lovely defence of Handcrafted lists of links.
4.
Call for participation: Cursor is open for submissions on the theme of play until June 30th, Tiny Awards is looking for nominations until June 23rd, and The Photographers’ Gallery accepts proposals until June 16th.
5.
Poetic Web Calendar: Spencer Chang is introducing an offline-first mobile app for archiving, maintaining, and curating collections (today, June 9th).
Collections
Regular readers will know that Ana, Uno, and I enjoy visiting Hydra, the car-free island hiding two hours by boat from Athens. In I Hope This Finds You Well, journalist Valerie Präkelt describes Hydra’s charm — accompanied by a handful of Ana’s analog photographs.
Last email was sent to 3247 inboxes. Logo by Dreams™. Photograph by Ana Šantl. And you can reach me at kristoffer@naiveweekly.com.
Naive Yearly would not happen without the help of many people. Firstly, Hypertext Foundation for making it all possible and the Museum of Architecture and Design for the collaboration. Secondly, the eight speakers who I will introduce over the summer. Finally, Are.na for editing and publishing the talks, Ben for the design, Sam for the generosity, Ana for everything, and all the others whom I have not named here but whose words of encouragement and support have shaped the form and direction of Naive Yearly. Thank you!