GLITCH RETRO

Windows XP Out of Control

Charles Deng
MArch II 2025
Amber Zeng
MArch I 2025
Shiqi Zhang
MArch I 2025
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1 The finicky taskbar plays with the protagonist, repeating and moving around.

Is it a glitch in time or space? Windows XP, released around the year 2000, not only bears the collective memory of our generation, but has also set the pedestal for the forthcoming decades of technological boom. This simulation takes us back to the exciting moments of the popularization of Windows XP. The excitement and frustrations in the user’s first experience of the computer become visualized as a tangible collision. In this accidental encounter, the user’s attention is captured by the Windows’ window. When he tries to touch the taskbar window, the window becomes sticky and lagging and starts multiplying out of control. The frames soon engulf the real-time surroundings.

Project video
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2 Invisible force wiping and erasing the task bar and revealing the background.
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3 The moment when a Windows XP computer gets stuck.
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4 The data stream.
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5 A quick visualization from the beginning stage of the project.