Empire · Mark Napier

Mark Napier's solo exhibition features interactive installations exploring power in a post-national world through an unlikely merger of monumental architecture and software. The work presents a virtual Empire State Building in a 3D environment that viewers can manipulate using a mouse — lifting, throwing, bouncing, bending, and breaking the structure. Napier, a painter-turned-digital artist and pioneer of web-based art, employs Java and OpenGL programming for dynamic graphics rendering. His "net.flag" was acquired by the Guggenheim Museum in 2002, making it the first web-based artwork acquired by a major museum.