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Digital Landfill >> Mark Napier "Now, with Digital Landfill, web citizens have an economical, safe, clean, and environmentally friendly way to dispose of unsightly scrap data." --Mark Napier ---------------------- ||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr intro artwork profile (Mark Napier) interviews (Mark Napier) reviews ------------------------ < metascapes [Intro] Digital Landfill is a compost heap that Mark Napier, with his programming techniques, displays in fragmented layers to create unusual patterns and images. Users may view the files that have been dumped, or may add their own virtual refuse to the site. Contributions range from discarded pornography to CIA web pages. Napier says, "Now, with Digital Landfill, web citizens have an economical, safe, clean, and environmentally friendly way to dispose of unsightly scrap data." Stressing the tension between analog and digital existence by creating an unneeded product, Napier explores the contemporary confusion humanity experiences while dangling between virtuality and reality.