Johanna Drucker:Night Crawlers On The Web

Johanna Drucker is well known for her remarkable artists books which treat text as image and construct elaborate narratives replete with scholarly reference and autobiography. Night Crawlers on the Web evokes another of Ms. Drucker's passions, the Victorian novel. Here she paints a somewhat Gothic landscape peopled with hi-tech, lo-cal humanoids who speak in a language built largely around the ubiquity of consumer computers. Words like "mode" "display" "browser" "pixel" proliferate as our protagonist wills an intangible cyber lover into existence. Somewhat reminescent of William Burroughs, this is a humorous and imaginative romp through the looking glass which seems to mediate a great many of our daily lives.