emma "doodybrains" rae norton is an artist working with and through software

a computer mouse that violently shakes anytime your cursor moves past an advertisement. no clicking to buy allowed. i built a version of this in fall 2018 and "failed". i will be building this mouse for real in the fall of 2019. in the meantime click on link for research.

made in step with Allison Parrish's class Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune Telling this project is a series of tutorials for navigating your computer's file system with the programming language bash >> use this guide to become more spiritually aligned with your computer

in the Spring of 2019 I co-produced a performace series as a part of the ITP Spring Show. The documentation of performaces will be added to this project soon.

participants of this workshop learn how to "hand code" a web page by working on each others computers. the session starts with a brief lecture on the significance of coding slowly and by hand. participants will learn how to do this kind of coding by example and with care.

in the winter of 2019 i attended code societies, a three week session at at the school for poetic computation, organized by melanie hoff. this project is an ode and an archive that i built with collaboratively generated material from those three weeks.

this is a web page that doubles as an archive of never ending construction sites in nyc. inspired (always) by chantal akerman.

first website i ever made. it is also for sale on CD-ROM at printed matter

this is a web page that i made in an amazing class called computational approaches to typography, taught by allison parrish. the project is all at once a computational approach to typography and a commentary on typography as a computational medium.

this is an app (that you too can use) for making mixtapes on the web. if you have an are.na account you can create your own mixtape by adding youtube links to a channel.

a javascript tool for making websites from the command line !

a zine about some of the ways you can be online that aren't facebook

an agency website designed by No Plans and built with a Gatsby frontend and a Contentful backend.

i built this site with Shift Lab NY where I was a lead web developer until 2018. Zipeng Zhu designed it!

designed by No Plans and built with react and contentful

homepage to annie larson's heirloom sweaters. i contributed code to the front end of this website with a shopify back end in the summer of 2018.

for my friends and their beautiful music

a personal website, built from scratch, for my favorite poet.