Statement
The "WonderWalker" is a site for people to link and share their favorite web pages. We spent some time trying to find a way to display those links, and these screenshots show two ideas for visual interfaces. Martin's consists of idea-chambers that wold enlarge as more links got added to them, forming a potentially 'multi-dimensional' description of an object. Marek's consists of a 3D walk through transparent spaces, each of which would contain a concept. We exchanged these images as part of a dialogue as we developed the piece. To 'read' a concept would be to walk through from space to space. Immediately after these images we came up with the idea of people creating their own map, and creating their own icons to mark their selections.

Bio
Marek Walczak's online and installation pieces merge architecture, interface design and performance. Works include "Apartment," (2001) an installation a the Whitney Museum of American Art and a web site commission by Turbulence; "Wonderwalker" (2000, in collaboration with Martin Wattenberg) commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; "Switch" (1998-1999); Adrift (1997-2000), a multi-location performance with Helen Thorington and Jesse Gilbert, first performed at Ars Electronica, 1997, Linz, Austria; "Suspension" (1997: in collaboration with Jordan Crandall) at DocumentaX, Kassel, Germany; and "Mapdance" (1997), a 3D multiuser web-based performance in "Port: Navigating Digital Culture" an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York

Martin Wattenberg is a New York-based digital artist. his work focuses on visual explorations of databases, communities, and conversations. Recent projects and collaborations include "Apartment," with Marek Walczak, shown in the "Data Dynamics" exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and on Turbulence,org, the "SmartMoney Map of the Market," "StarryNight" with Alex Galloway and Mark Tribe, "Spiral" and Bewitched.com. Wattenberg is currently teaching a class at Columbia University on the fusion of art and programming. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.