Idle Screenings
An exhibition of original and selected artworks,
streamed off-demand to your vacant computer
How it Works
1. Download & install our screensaver
2. Stop using your computer
3. Watch art work while you idle
Artists / Past Exhibitions
About
Idle Screenings streams art to thousands of desktops daily, through our custom screensaver. The exhibition explores value within an attention economy by showing work in empty rooms, and at the expense of other resources, such as energy, bandwidth, and time.
Background
We launched Idle Screenings in March of 2012 as a one week exhibition, featuring the five most downloaded movies on the web, available in three formats: Screensaver, GIF blog, and PowerPoint.
During its initial weeklong run, Idle Screenings investigated the shift in the perceptual value of mass-market content once it has become ubiquitously shared online. Today, we're excited to be streaming new and rare content to a broad audience of empty desks, back-filling a channel that has been static for too long.
Press