Mark Napier’s work
After reading the article “Art in the age of digital distribution” I was particularly interested in the reference to Mark Napier’s “FEED” website from 2001. I checked it out myself along with some of his other work, which was all very interesting. The Feed website sort of unravels the web and consumes the information provided in a website. Once you select a URL, feed reduces the “meaning and content to a stream of text and pixels” which basically looks like colors appearing in line graphs, pixelated grids, and scatter charts. It’s entertaining to watch and it’s hard to remind yourself that this is apparently a website you’re really looking at. Though there are only certain URLs to choose from, each looks very different from the others in the colors that are displayed, how they appear, and the text shown.
