Statement
I was on a plane to San Francisco in 1998. I was working on something that wasn't yet called "netomat" when my laptop battery died. On the top left are notes describing the relationship between the "flow engine," which was the original layout or rendering engine, and the networking engine. Since I couldn't program anymore, I started brainstorming names for the markup language and the application. My core idea was to provide and alternative viewer for the resources on the Internet.

Bio
Maciej Wisniewski is an artist whose work focuses on the underlying social implications of technology and the network. His works have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, the New Media Centre at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Zentrum Fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco and other locations. Wisniewski earned an MFA at Hunter College, New York, and studied toward a Ph.D. program at the Institute for General Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.