The Citizens
by Nick Crowe (1999)

THE CITIZENS IS a new publication marking a particular moment in the development of the internet. Nick Crowe has worked with the web sites of private individuals, downloading hundreds of home pages, translating some of them from digital code to simple line drawings that have been traced onto typographic detail paper, and then returned back on to the internet as a downloadable bookwork. Looking at the way the early internet has been claimed as a space for the idiosyncratic and the banal, The Citizens, presents a fascinating sociological snapshot of its users through the means of their (digital) self-representation. The resulting work - a book of home pages existing both as a unique work on paper and as 1,000 numbered digital copies - has been co-published by Artec and Book Works, and brings into play both old and new technologies, making for a haunting return to the internet.

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There is also a unique book, with images from the internet hand rendered in gouache. Contact Book Works for price details.