Internet shredder 1.0
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Internet Shredder “1.0” is an internet browser developed by Mark Napier using Java- it creates a particular mode of digital art on any web page that can be addressed through ordinary searching. The browser opens the web page, and elaborates the infrastructure of the web page by setting out the HTML instructions as ordinary lettering appearing in large or small fonts and in overlapping lines of text, while splicing in bits and pieces of any graphical data within the confines of variably sized boxes scattered throughout the web page. The graphical data is also subject to a “blinking” effect in which colors and light characteristics alternate automatically and can also be changed with movements of the mouse.[1]
The Shredder has been posted at Mark Napier’s web site, http://potatoland.org. The program reconfigures the browser to achieve unusual artistic effects. It’s meant to be a parallel of the web, and display what is not meant to be seen.[2] http://potatoland.org shows examples of the program on architectural icons such as the Empire State Building, a natural -manmade structure called Cyclops, and other iconographic figures and structures. Mr. Napier writes that his program deconstructs the HTML instructions before they are interpreted by the user’s internet browser, and turns them into abstractions and the content of the web page into art.
[edit] Similar Browsers
Mr. Napier has also developed other similar browsers to create art out of HTML web pages. The browser “Riot” will seize the name of the title holder of the site and repeat it in innumerable highlighted boxes while rendering a columnar display of text, HTML instructions and alternative languages through which the site can communicate (Spanish, German, Korean, etc.) His website provides the link to this browser as well. Mr. Napier has also created “Feed”, a browser that converts news feeds into chart like displays of colorful data, thereby abstracting from the content of the feed sites.
