Artist and organizer working with the web as a medium and material

Elliott Cost is an artist and organizer working with the web as a medium and material. He tends to Bell Kiosk, Special Fish, HTML Energy, and various other poetic websites. He is part of Extra Practice, a space for working and learning in the North of Rotterdam, and now resides on Maui.
He made this very website.
Website: elliott.computer · Instagram: @elliott.computer
2024–2025 · with Kristoffer Tjalve
The first issue of The Internet Phone Book: an annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators.
Photos by Ana Santl Andersen.
internetphonebook.net · More on elliott.computer
with Laurel Schwulst
HTML Energy celebrates HTML, the fundamental language of the web. HTML Day is its yearly world-wide day of making websites together.
HTML Day 2026, its fourth year, was held in 67 cities around the world: Austin, TX; Dallas; New York, NY; Auckland; Tokyo; Minneapolis; Kyoto; Lisbon; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Somewhere in North Italy; Buenos Aires; Toronto; Shanghai; Seattle; Leicester, England; Rio de Janeiro; Toukatsu, Chiba; Seoul; Singapore; Lancaster, PA; Kuala Lumpur; San Diego; Saskatoon; Madrid; Amsterdam; Karachi; Erfurt, Germany; Berlin; Montréal; Rotterdam; Edinburgh; Leipzig; Tiburon, Marin County; Curitiba, Brasil; Astoria, Queens; Washington, DC; Jersey City / Hoboken; Sydney; Bogotá; Hampton Roads, VA; Philadelphia, PA; Melbourne; Waterloo, ON; Barre, Vermont, USA; Montevideo; Portland; Manchester, UK; New Brunswick, New Jersey; Victoria, BC; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Hamburg; St. Louis; London; Barcelona; Helsinki; Karlstad, Sweden; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Sài Gòn, Việt Nam; Budapest; Manila; San Carlos de Bariloche; Tampa, FL; Atlanta; Strasbourg, France; Brussels; and Ottawa, Ontario.
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