Wartime [calculated $817,800,000,000] is a computational anti-war work created for the online Wartime project. Its calculated figure is presented as an insistent screen-based image, translating the scale of war expenditure into a stark numerical form.
The original project page placed the work within the Anti-War Web Ring, connecting it to a wider network of online anti-war works through previous, next, list and random navigation.
A projected version was included in Screenshot(s) at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery in 2006, shown alongside a large-scale print of Guernica [cover-up].
Anti-War Web Ring: artists and works
The names below reproduce the Art section of the ring’s directory. Links open preserved versions in the Web Archive.
- Acosta. Art and human rights
- Kid Koma
- Memorial Figures Series
- Smartwar Superstation
- A Polyphonic Chronicle
- dimos dimitriou
- rebel:art — connecting art and activism
- warProductwar
- Revue Interstice
- M.F.U. — an inner journey
- Ceci n’est pas un mensonge
- dialoque.ws
- devoid — Wartime
- One among 400,000
- Sally Blue’s Web Site
- orhpositivo
- Nick Barker: Net Art Projects
- Commission Control
- The Experimental Party
- Arts and Consciousness
- American T-shirt Patriotism
- jimpunk
- Dispotheque
- PeaceSymbol.org
- Art For A Change
- les dormeurs / the sleepers
- Blood For Oil
- Art and Politics in America
- The New Iraqi Flag
- Sacred Voice Gallery Activist Art Resources
- [ f r a m e s ]
- Thoroughly Modern Mili
- Peace, Pace, Frieden
- E Akaba Arts
Typeface and interface credits
The preserved 2001 SWF embeds Orgv01, a bitmap typeface by Orgdot. It remains part of the original artwork.
The browser presentation’s click-through title panel uses Kenney Future Square by Kenney (Kenney.nl), distributed under CC0.