Chia Amisola is one of the most lucid voices of a generation of artist programmers working to reclaim the internet as an expressive, malleable and habitable space. The web, for her, is not a product: it is a material, and anything that is material can be sculpted, bent and reimagined.

Let's turn the browser from a passive, endless feed into an active instrument and performance for poetic expression and utility.

Participants will learn about 'bookmarklets', lightweight Javascript tools that live in the bookmark's bar that let you manipulate, modify, and reimagine any webpage you visit. Instead of a website as a fixed experience, we'll learn how to overlay our own interventions, transforming how we read, see, and interact with the web in real time.

Together, we'll learn how to use a collection of poetic and utilitarian bookmarklets that modify webpages. We'll consider how browsing can be slower, contemplative, or fun, chaotic, and expressive, or better serve our own needs, turning the web into the vast, open, and malleable environment. In practice, we'll figure out what 'browsing' means, and how it can be a form of performance.

Through live demonstrations and guided experimentation, you'll discover how these simple tools can highlight every third word, shuffle paragraphs, fade distractions, or apply unexpected filters, each acting as a different "instrument" for playing the web. By the end of this workshop, you'll have a personalized toolkit of bookmarklets that you can use on your browser and understand the creative potential of these browser based interventions for cultivating more intentional, poetic relationships with online content.

Participants are requested to bring a laptop with the Google Chrome or Safari browser installed.