Up next in our 25 on 25 series we have Cory Arcangel and his pick, World of Awe: The Traveler’s Journal (Chapter 1: Forever) by Yael Kanarek. Salvaged from a laptop in 2000, World of Awe allows its visitors to search for a lost treasure through a series of journals from a traveler.
"Perhaps counter intuitively, my favorite memories of net art are often centered around the IRL, and the people involved. For example, I will never be able to separate Yael Kanarek's World of Awe—a multi-year multi-media long form masterpiece—from visiting her studio in the early 2000's. Tussled away in her East Village apartment, her studio contained the most impressive artist computer rig I had ever seen up until then. She even had a Windows PC (a computer which was used only by the most serious programmers, gamers, and Manhattan money people)! To see the computer which created the *fictional* desktop in World of Awe was like seeing the scaffolding @ the Sistine Chapel. Luckily World of Awe is part of Art Base, but Yael's rig? In her own words, 'When do we start sending our crap to outer space? The universe is big.'"
—Cory Arcangel