Blank Windows

Blank Windows turns the familiar browser rectangle into a pile of white, shadowed panes you can move and enlarge. There is no score or finish line—just a spare 2016 net-art work that makes arranging digital clutter feel oddly meditative.

What is Blank Windows?

White panels overlap across the screen, each one borrowing the plain geometry of a browser window. Move one, enlarge another, let a third cover the rest, and the composition keeps changing without asking you to win anything. That absence is the whole device: an everyday piece of interface furniture becomes both the material and the subject, turning routine screen clutter into a quiet little exercise in composition.

What you can do there

• Move and resize overlapping blank windows
• Arrange the windows into a changing composition

Why we picked it

The idea arrives with almost no ceremony, yet it gives a familiar digital object a surprisingly different mood. Blank Windows is specific, playable, and patient; it rewards a minute of idle arranging without bolting on points, instructions, or a manufactured sense of urgency.

How to get the most from it

Start by moving one pane away from the pile, then enlarge another and layer it back across the rest. Try making a tidy stack, a lopsided skyline, or one enormous blank sheet. Stop whenever the arrangement looks pleasing—or pleasingly inconvenient.

Good to know

The work opens directly and has no conventional site navigation. It is documented as a 2016 piece, and an older independent demonstration praised its mobile behavior, but current touch support, keyboard access, screen-reader semantics, audio, and browser compatibility remain undocumented.

Who made it, and when?

Rafaël Rozendaal is the credited creator or organization. The earliest supported launch date we found is 2016.