Statement
This page is a sketch of the underlying structure of "Feed." The Java applet had to read a stream of bytes and pixel color values, and send those values to seven different display windows. The data stream is invisible until a display does something with the data: draws lines, graphs or charts with it. I wanted to create a simple and efficient code structure that would reflect the idea that data is invisible and meaningless until we observe it and assign meaning to it. It mattered that the process would be visible to the user, that they would know that "Feed" was processing data and giving it form, and of course it had to work.

Bio
Mark Napier, a painter turned digital artist, packed up his paints in 1995 to create artwork exclusively for the web. Since then he has created a wide range of internet projects including "The Shredder," and alternative browser that dematerializes the web, "Digital Landfill," an endless archive of digital debris and "Feed," commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Noted for his innovative use of the web as an art medium and for his open-ended, evolving artwork, Napier's work has been reviewed in the New York Times Online, ArtByte, HotWired, Art Forum, Publish, Yahoo magazine and the Village Voice. His work has been shown at SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, ZKM, the Walker Art Center, WNET's ReelNY and ASCI Digital Art '98. Napier lives and works in New York City.