Reconnoitre was part of a series of works concerned with our experience of the network as environment whose structures are continuously re-shaping, accreting and decaying.
While Reconnoitre can be considered as a browser in that it allows the user to search for and access web sites, it is less concerned with the coherent display of information as with representing browsing as a behavioural activity.
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 dérive (drift) in its own right – an ambient grazing of text.
The project was made in collaboration with Tom Corby.
1997-2000