2022/06/02

Crashing Browsers to Make People Think: Auriea Harvey Remembers How Web 2.0 Disempowered Users

“It felt like it was taking away the power of computing from people. I could see that this was slowly eating away at people’s ability to see the computer for what it was: an open a box of tricks.”
– American artist Auriea Harvey, on how the convenience of Web 2.0 disempowered users and, ultimately, ended Net Art. “Now ‘good navigation’ is expected, whereas we were all about crashing the browser and making people think.”
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