Web pages are temporary graphic images created when browsing software interprets HTML instructions. The web browser is an organ of perception through which we 'see' the web. It filters and organizes a huge mass of structured information that spans continents, is constantly growing, reorganizing itself, shifting its appearance, evolving. The Shredder presents this global structure as a chaotic, irrational, raucous collage. By altering the HTML code before the browser reads it, the Shredder appropriates the data of the web, transforming it into a parallel web.
Content become abstraction.
Text becomes graphics. Information becomes art. The excerpts of the participants, anonymous or intimate in their component parts, constitute the living raw material for Napier's collages.