artport gate page July 2002
Lew Baldwin's "GoodWorld"
http://artport.whitney.org

GoodWorld is a browser that 'wraps' the Web by wiping out content and
unifying all pages into one creation. GoodWorld takes a site and
re-appropriates the text and images, forming an entirely new work. The most
prominent image on the page becomes an abstracted reproduction of the
original while the remaining images are turned into yellow 'wrappers' and
the text and links are transformed into '* __ *' – symbolizing a
complacent face. The Web becomes a neutralized "good world" or possibly an
unsettled dilution of the safe and familiar we've come to expect.