Abstract Browsing

Creator

Rafaël Rozendaal
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Creation Date

2016

Keywords

artists' books; appropriation; World Wide Web; Internet

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations "Abstract Browsing is a project that consists of both software and physical objects. The browser plugin is a free software that anyone can install. When you turn it on, you can surf the web but all web content is reduced to colored rectangles. It shows you the skeleton of the web. It's like seeing an X-ray of a building, showing the structural elements. Web pages are built of many smaller elements, information is organized and categorized. Text, images, tables, things we use every day but are not aware of. I'm interested how our eyes move across the screen, how websites adapt, learn from your behavior, and change over time. Optimized to grab your attention, to never get boring, to tempt you to click and click and never leave. Websites are constantly maximizing their efficiency, separate from aesthetic concerns. Websites learn from users by trial and error. Technology asks new questions about composition. I'm looking for unusual compositions. Anti-compositions, unhuman compositions, compositions that humans would not have created on their own."--Www.newrafael.com/texts. Gift of Paul Soulellis, RISD Faculty.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1546988~S4

Press

New York City : Paul Soulellis, Library of the Printed Web, 2016.

Rights

©New York City : Paul Soulellis, Library of the Printed Web, 2016.

Materials / Techniques

software; copy paper

Measurements

28 cm