Splinter2025. Arbor

Splinter is a graphical expression system that uses the screenshot paradigm as a medium of expression. Drawing from the cut-up method, the system operates on digital media, allowing users to quickly extract and recursively recompose media on screens onto a digital canvas.

By harnessing previously accumulated everyday digital media (and the interfaces that contain them), Splinter aims to allow anyone to quickly and easily produce surreal, surprising, and interesting new personal and creative expressions.

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Everything in life is cut-up. Our senses retrieve infnite chaotic vortices of information, flattening and fltering them to a point that enables commonplace activity to take place within a specifc cultural none-sensus reality. Our brain encodes flux, and builds a mean average picture at any given time. Editing, reduction of intensity and linearity are constantly imposed upon the ineffable to facilitate ease of basic communication and survival. What we see, what we hear, what we smell, what we touch, what we emote, what we utter, are all dulled and smoothed approximations of a far more intense, vibrant and kaleidoscopic ultra-dimensional actuality.

The physical universe is not all that decays. So do abstractions and categories. Human ideas, science, scholarship, and language are constantly collapsing and unfolding. Any field, and the corpus of of all fields, is a bundle of relationships subject to all kinds of twists, inversions, involutions, and rearrangement: these changes are frequent but unpredictable.

• Chimera Cut-ups with TouchDesigner. 4Seas Nimman. Chiang Mai, TH. May 25, 2026. [media →]
  
  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
• Screenshot Workshop: Cut-up digital media with TouchDesigner. Chaihuo Makerspace. Shenzhen, CN. Jan 10, 2026. [media →]
  
  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  
  
• Digital Assemblages. National Asian Culture Centre (ACC). Gwangju, KR. Nov 30, 2025. [media →]
  
  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

• Coding Tools and Practices for Experimental Media. Infra Practice. Chiang Mai, TH. May 27, 2026. [media →]
  
  

  

  
  

  
  
• Research @ Scale Residents Talks. TroubleMakers. Shenzhen, CN. Jan 27, 2026.
• Cut-ups for Digital Media. Causal Islands Berlin. Berlin, DE. Jun 8, 2024.

• Overflow. Goethe-Institut Thailand. Bangkok, TH. May 21, 2026.
• The Visual Jam. The Visual 084. Bangkok, TH. Apr 18, 2026.

• Arbor. Splinter: A Screenshot-based Expression System for Digital Media. Scalable HCI Research Symposium. 1 pages.

• Special thanks to Andy Matuschak, Azlen Elza, and Matthew Siu, Robert M. Ochshorn