Walt Gordon Jones

Dear Artist

Subreala allows you to easily upload words and images and then create interactive pages for them. It’s as easy as just selecting which visualization you want to use, preview it, and then publish it. You can also link pages together and create interactive menus that link to your pages. And you can embed any page on another site, like your blog for example.

Right now, there are dozens of visualizations to select from, mostly based on original code from artist Gerard Ferrandez. It’s an open platform that lets javascript developers create new visualizations, so as time goes on, there will be more interesting ways to present your art.

You do not need to make a huge time investment. You just upload your stuff, create a page, and share the link anywhere (or embed it.) You create a byline with a link back to your site or blog, and that credit appears on every page created with your art.

Subreala is still in development, so you need an invite code from me or another member to get started.

Dear Javascript Developer

Subreala is an experiment I’ve created in my spare time that gives javascript developers access to the DOM for pages containing artist content, such as words and images. The visualizations already on the site offer a good example of what is possible.

The platform has been designed to not use any javascript libraries for the site frame and navigation, so you can use any frameworks or libraries you want with no namespace collisions. You have access to load javascript, CSS, and HTML on the page, and of course full access to the DOM. All the content is always structured the same way, with classes and ids to make things easy to find.

You do not need to make a huge time investment. This is perfect for demos you’ve already created and just need an easy place to show it off. You create a byline with a link back to your site or blog, and that credit appears on every page created with your code.

Subreala is still in development, so you need an invite code from me or another member to get started.

Thanks for reading

I hope that Subreala will teach me more about how artists and geeks can collaborate better to build more interesting things. I’m completely open to your feedback and suggestions. I’ve been working on this in the background for about a year, and I’ll continue to improve it in small steps.