Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue

Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue is a 2007 web artwork by Damon Zucconi that reduces the browser to a coin toss in primary colors. Refresh the page and the work resolves as one color or the other. That is the whole machine, and its refusal to add a moral, menu, or loading spinner is the joke.

What is Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue?

Some websites solve problems. Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue solves the much stranger problem of whether a web page can be complete with almost nothing on it. Damon Zucconi's official record calls it a domain-name web application from 2007, while the artist has described its simple outcome as red or blue with an even chance. A refresh becomes the only meaningful gesture: not navigation, not productivity, just another shot at a color. The live page is almost aggressively silent in a text reader; this pass found its title but no readable body copy at all. That minimalism is not a missing feature so much as the artwork's material. JTT also lists the piece among Zucconi's web applications, which helps place this tiny bit of browser behavior in an art practice rather than a broken landing page. Visit when you need a clean interruption, then try a few refreshes and notice how quickly an ordinary page reload starts to feel ceremonial.

What you can do there

• Refresh to receive a color outcome

Why we picked it

It makes the internet's most mundane gesture feel oddly charged. There is no setup, no audience instruction, and no prize beyond a different field of color, yet the outcome stays memorable because the page commits completely to its small premise.

How to get the most from it

Open the page and give it a refresh. Repeat only as long as the two-color chance remains amusing, then leave before your browser turns it into a ritual you cannot explain to anyone nearby.

Good to know

The page has no readable explanatory content in the safe research reader, and its visible outcome was not directly tested here. Expect a minimal art gesture rather than a conventional interactive experience; accessibility, mobile, and input behavior remain unknown.

Who made it, and when?

Damon Zucconi is the credited creator or organization. The earliest supported launch date we found is 2007.