2006 — A-WAL is a new kind of cultural tool that allows individual users and organizations to upload their own photos and images to be displayed as background wallpaper in their email messages. A-WAL email is web mail, so you can access it from anywhere in the world, and use it the way you would your regular email. However, A-WAL is the only email that allows you to take creative control through featuring your own images. For its pre-launch, A-WAL email was a featured project used by artists participating in Satellite Project, Shanghai Biennial 2006 as an extension of exhibition.

Richard Rhys, Distorted Rectangle Pattern, 2006, Digital rendering. The first pattern in a series of ongoing patterns dealing with distortion in simple stripe patterns. Image courtesy of the artist.