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Mark Napier
* 1961 in Springfield, New Jersey [USA]. Since 1995 Mark Napier realizes only works for the Internet. He has produced a wide range of Internet projects, including «The Shredder» (1998), an alternative browser that dematerializes the Web; «Digital Landfill» (1998), an endless archive of digital debris; and «Bots» (2000), a tool for building unique pop-culture icons from parts. In his projects his artistic training as a painter and his 15-year long activity as software engineer combine to create «art interfaces» and software applications that deal with the issues of power and control, property and territory in the virtual world. Napier lives and works in New York City.
His works can be accessed online at his web site www.potatoland.org.
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