2017.02.24-2017.02.27 Full Open

The infobox of the cartoon cat Garfield, protagonist of the Garfield comic strip, was changed multiple times to indicate an indeterminate gender, after podcaster Virgil Texas claimed in a tweet that an interview of strip creator Jim Davis indicated so and subsequently updated the infobox to reflect this.

The argument ended in the consensus that Garfield was male, citing four strips. Jim Davis later clarified to The Washington Post that he was indeed male.

This poster translates Wikipedia’s revision history and protection system into a visual language based on density. Each edit is categorized by its protection level—restricted, partially protected, or open—and rendered through a corresponding color code. Rather than presenting information as linear text, the poster reorganizes revisions into structured blocks, allowing viewers to perceive how edits accumulate, conflict, and stabilize over time. Through consistent typography, spacing, and layout ratios, the poster makes visible how collective knowledge on Wikipedia is continuously rewritten and shaped by varying degrees of openness and control.

This poster explores how multiple images accumulate to form a single composition, mirroring the way countless edits build one Wikipedia article. Images are arranged in a repeated grid and layered at their original scales, allowing overlaps, alignments, and disappearances to occur naturally. As with RGB pixels combining into one image, fragments of visual information merge into a shared surface. Through an automated process that governs placement, overlap, and halftone conversion, the poster treats image editing as an act of accumulation, where information gradually transforms into a unified graphic form.