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Mark Napier cria arte exclusivamente para a web desde 1995. Ele combina sua educação como pintor a 15 anos de experiência como desenvolvedor de softwares para criar “interfaces artísticas”, softwares que abordam questões de autoridade, propriedade e território no mundo virtual. Napier recebeu uma bolsa NYFA (2001) e uma verba da Greenwall Foundation (2001), e seu trabalho foi resenhado em The New York Times, ArtByte, Wired News e muitas publicações internacionais. Embora net.flag seja seu primeiro trabalho adquirido por um museu, Napier também recebeu encomendas para criar net-arte para o Museum of Modern Art de San Francisco e o Whitney Museum of American Art.
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source: marknapier
I’m an early adopter of the web and developed my first web-based applications for financial data in 1996 while working for a market data startup called LPC. For much of my career I’ve worked in a designer/architect role – information architect and user experience – but my background in programming (Java/SQL, Javascript, C++, C) gives me insight into the inner workings of software systems. After LPC was sold to Reuters in the late ’90s I made a name for myself as a new-media artist and am considered to be a pioneer of digital art on the Internet. More recently, after several years in the big corporation experience at Thomson Reuters, I am back in startups, consulting for a new personal finance company.
Mark Napier, painter-turned-new-media-artist, is a pioneer of digital and internet art. Through his early web-based artworks such as “The Shredder”, “Digital Landfill”, and “Feed”, Napier explores the potential of worldwide networks as a public space for art. His experience as a software developer informs Napier.s software craft — he uses code as an expressive form, and the Internet as his exhibition space and laboratory. Napier.s work has been included in seminal exhibitions of Digital Art including the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Data Dynamics exhibition, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the San Francisco Museum of Art’s 010101: Art in the Age of Technology, and the net_condition exhibition at ZKM (Center for Art & Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

A recipient of grants from Creative Capital, NYFA, and the Greenwall Foundation, Napier has also been commissioned to create artwork for SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim. Napier.s work has also been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, PS1, the Walker Arts Center, Ars Electronica, The Kitchen, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Transmediale, Bard College, the Princeton Art Museum, ASCII Digital Festival, bitforms gallery in Seoul, and la Villette in Paris among many others.

Napier lives and works in New York city. He was born in the United States in 1961.
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source: guggenheimorg
Mark Napier has been creating artwork exclusively for the Web since 1995. He combines his training as a painter with his expertise as a software developer to create “art interfaces,” software that addresses issues of authority, ownership, and territory in the virtual world. Napier has received a NYFA Fellowship (2001) and a grant from the Greenwall Foundation (2001). His work has been reviewed by The New York Times, ArtByte, Wired News and many international publications. Although net.flag is the first work to be acquired by a museum, Napier has also been commissioned to create Internet artwork for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been shown in the Whitney Biennial (2002), SFMOMA’s 010101, the Whitney’s Data Dynamics, the Center for Art and Media Technology ’s net_condition, the Walker Art Center’s Art and Entertainment Network, and at new-media festivals in Germany, Italy, Denmark, and South America.