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Banner Depot 2000 is an interactive archive of over 20,000 banner ads from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The authors of this project, Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao, published a dataset of these banner ads. This project brings out so much nostalgia of my early memories of the Internet and I have been meaning to make a project using this dataset.

In the past three years, as a part of my ongoing research, I have created well over 1000 computational sketches, in the forms of still images, short animations, and interactive visuals. I have always wanted to experiment more with analog mediums as I am curious about how visuals that are usually shown on digital screens will render on analog mediums. This fall, I am taking Tega Brain’s Print and Code at NYU’s Integrated Design & Media program, where I learned techniques of risograph printing. I decided to turn three videos of my past sketches, each representing a distinct style of my work, into risograph animations.