It is through the use of metaphors that this project finds design and interface. You may think of each title with the prefix "browser as" attached to it. This is meant, conceptually, to be an image-essay. With all the recent discussion of the ways that computers are changing our lives, the role of browser should not be ignored. GO BACK, READ THIS AFTERWARD (if at all.) If software is evolving (as is hardware), and I think that it is, what kind of thing is the web? And what a strange, symbiotic relationship it must have with the browser species. I think immediately of the world's largest living organism, a giant fungus that was found beneath (was it Siberia?) some country, acres upon acres, so large that it was not at first recognized as a single organism. When I first started this project, I thought that I would have a lot to work with: art from at least four browsers that I knew about, concievably more. I found as this progressed that there is a sort of evolutionary convergence in the browser medium. Browsers are boring. They (for the most part,) look the same, and act the same. Maybe everyone is copying netscape. Or, maybe just microsoft is copying netscape, and everyone else is copying microsoft. Or maybe netscape releasing it's source code to the world has something to do with it. This is not finished.
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