Case Studies: Mark Napier, net.flag, 2002

Jon Ippolito is Associate Curator of Media Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

"To view the Internet through one of Mark Napier’s interfaces is to glimpse a landscape of unlimited visual possibilities. Often premised on the collaboration of an online community, Napier’s work is far richer and more complex than the familiar print-inspired pages offered by corporate browsers such as Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer. For a 2002 Guggenheim commission, Napier created net.flag (2002), an emblem for the Internet as a new territory, one composed by people from various geographical regions and ideologies." (...)

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