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Scrolling The Arcane

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A screenshot of the Scrolling the Arcane website, featuring a 3D rendered horizon at sunset

In the face of the rising number of mobile apps offering cartomancy, astrology, or quiromancy services, Scrolling the Arcane brought together designers, artists, and researchers to reflect and question this context. Why are digital entrepreneurs interested in astrology? What models and predictive technologies coexist in these services’ configurations? What markets feed from the global crisis and anxiety?

Scrolling the Arcane, is not only an interesting conceptual meditation on contemporary digital tools but also useful technical example in its use of a 3D navigation strategy where work appears as a constellation to be navigated by 'looking'.