https://synfield.space/stories/ Explorations in interactive art, digital spaces, and the things that happen when we take part. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://synfield.space/apple-touch-icon.png https://synfield.space/stories/ https://synfield.space/stories/how-hand-tracking-works-in-the-browser/ https://synfield.space/stories/how-hand-tracking-works-in-the-browser/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Guide Your webcam can become 21 hand landmarks inside a page. How browser hand tracking works, what stays private, and worlds you can try in Synfield. https://synfield.space/stories/a-website-that-asks-nothing/ https://synfield.space/stories/a-website-that-asks-nothing/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Essay Most of what we open on a screen wants something back. This essay looks at the difference between interacting and producing, at repetition without progress, at the many ways people pay attention, and at digital works that ask for nothing at all. https://synfield.space/stories/what-is-cymatics/ https://synfield.space/stories/what-is-cymatics/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Exploration Sprinkle sand on a metal plate, make it vibrate, and the sand draws a figure. What cymatics is, why the patterns appear, what Chladni discovered, and where physics ends and artistic interpretation begins. https://synfield.space/stories/can-a-website-be-art/ https://synfield.space/stories/can-a-website-be-art/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Exploration Most websites show art; some are the art. What net art is, the early works that turned the browser into a medium, who makes web art today, and what changes when a work lives at an address instead of in a room. https://synfield.space/stories/particle-systems-digital-art/ https://synfield.space/stories/particle-systems-digital-art/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Exploration Thousands of points, a handful of rules, and an image that seems alive. What a particle system is, how forces move it, and how three Synfield worlds use the idea in three different ways. https://synfield.space/stories/cool-interactive-websites/ https://synfield.space/stories/cool-interactive-websites/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Selection Sixteen interactive websites sorted by what they ask of you, from instruments anyone can play to windows onto the world. Who made each one, what to try first and which device suits it. https://synfield.space/stories/interactive-generative-art/ https://synfield.space/stories/interactive-generative-art/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Guide Some artworks are systems: rules, a little chance and your input, producing something new each time. How they work, three classic examples, how generative art differs from AI-generated art, and a small sketch to make your own. https://synfield.space/stories/what-is-net-art/ https://synfield.space/stories/what-is-net-art/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Guide Net art uses the internet as its medium, not as a place to post pictures. How the terms differ, the history from net.art to now, and where the work still lives. https://synfield.space/stories/what-is-interactive-art/ https://synfield.space/stories/what-is-interactive-art/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sandra Bamboo Guide Interactive art changes in response to what you do. A guide to what that means, how it differs from digital, participatory and generative art, where it comes from, and how to get the most out of it.