Stemming from the concept of Wikipedia races (and a childhood spent playing invented hyperlink games), Everest Pipkin led a collective walk and lecture through Wikipedia articles. Focusing on ideas of memorials, the networked image as marker, and the function of memory and remembrance on a collectively edited internet, this lecture context-drifted through Wikipedia itself, forming a web of lateral connectivity between topics-- just like every 3 am rabbit hole that leaves you, blinking, the next morning at a window full of tabs and a browser history dense with searching. 

Biography

Everest Pipkin is a game developer, writer, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico. Their work both in the studio and in the garden follows themes of ecology, tool making, and collective care during collapse.

They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London, The Texas Biennial, The XXI Triennale of Milan, The Photographers Gallery of London, Center for Land Use Interpretation, and other spaces. When not at the computer in the heat of the day, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human.