The Network as a Bizarre_scape

The duo of Corby and Baily say that their net art work "Reconnoitre" deals with our experience of the network as a bizarre_scape. They call the online world "an environment with a high metabolism whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped; accreting and thickening under the influence of powerful social and commercial forces." Their piece "Reconnoitre" is a browser of sorts, which of course allows users to find sites online, however, it isn't tooled to necessarily make sense, at least in an orderly, linear manner. Instead, the artists hope to present the act of browsing as a behavioural activity. Like many works of net art before it, "Recoinnotre" is another in a long line of dysfunctional browsers that turn web surfing into a fresh, surprising, even poetic experience.