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Hello 

Recently I came across an artist called Alexei Shulgin who did a project a few years back called 'Desktop is'. Blurb:

DESKTOP.IS 1997 In 1997, Alexei Shulgin sent a call for contributions to various mailing lists inviting people to take a snapshot of their desktops, save it as a JPEG and send it back to him, or store it on their own servers. The result is one of the wittiest collaborative works made for the web as well as an excellent psycho-technical ‘snapshot’ of the net art community at this time... Where many projects from this date emphasise the relativity of virtual communities, Desktop IS explores the homogeneity of their shared software architecture. But far from presenting a melancholic view of global cultural homogeneity, it reveals its impossibility.[http://www.easylife.org/desktop]

I don't agree with the reviewer but it is a good description of the idea. I want to do an updated mini-version because I find it fascinating that desktops are simultaneously generic and wildly personal. Also because I am nosy.

If willing please could you email me a screenshot of your full desktop? In whatever state it is/whatever state you're happy for the world to see it, but not at work. Contemporary example attached.

Macs: command + shift + 3

PCs: Print Scr

x Tessa