Reconnoitre

From Rhizome Artbase
Tom Corby
1997
Description

Reconnoitre is a dysfunctional brower (for windows users only) that transforms the web experience--searching, browsing, etc into a dynamic 3D visual environment.

Tom Corby
30 August 2001

Reconnoitre is part of an ongoing series of works concerned with our experience of the network as a bizarre_scape; an environment with a high metabolism whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped; accreting and
thickening under the influence of powerful social and commercial forces.
Probably best described as a dysfunctional browser it seeks to enunciate our consumption of information as a journey of surprise, that seeks to reinstate the pleasure of browsing as technologically experienced d

Tom Corby
30 August 2001
Legacy descriptive tags
Gavin Baily, Tom Corby, Podewil Centre, Institute of Contermporary Arts, Ars Electroncia Centre
Attribution: Tom Corby
Participatory, information map, Database, collider, Collaborative, public space, postmodern, network, machine, interface, browser, HTML, Visual, Virtual, Text
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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1997
Tom Corby