Web Crawler Art: Lisa Jevbratt’s Infome Imager

Each pixel represents a stop in a web crawler, the output of Lisa Jevbratt’s 2002-2005 online work The Infome Imager. I started the one seen here from http://gadgets.boingboing.net. [via Serial Consign]

1. [ZoopyFunk]

   Does not work with Firefox? Pffffft.

2. [Agies]

   @1 In 2002 nothing worked with Firefox.

3. [elix]

   Doesn’t like Chrome either.

4. [Art Carnage]

   And anyone besides Lisa Jevbratt would care about this because…?

5. [Anonymous]

   It works fine in Firefox as long as you forcibly disable the stupid user-agent sniffing bullshit. (Seriously, user-agent sniffing? Even in 2002 this was a major no-no.) Once you do that, it’s seemingly pretty much… completely boring. But whatever, maybe I’m just jaded! Here are some direct links to the two relevant pages that don’t have any brain-dead user-agent detection:

   http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/infome_imager/lite/2_A_crawling_setup.cgi [start a crawl]

   http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/infome_imager/lite/crawler_files/interface/index.html?2 [view crawls]

6. [ZoopyFunk]

   Agies…its not 2002 anymore. Maybe it was crawling only websites that existed in 2002…