Net.flag
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net.flag is a work of internet art created in 2002 by Mark Napier. Along with Unfolding Object by John Simon, it was commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and was among the first works of internet art to enter the permanent collection of a major museum.
net.flag is an interactive work hosted on the museum's website. It contains images of all the national flags in the world. Each flag is broken into its respective components, which are then categorized according to several broadly descriptive terms; users may pick and choose from a menu of these components to form a new flag, which they may then save to the site. Flags may also be saved to be uploaded to another website. In addition, the project features a browsable history, through which users may look over past creations which have been saved and titled.
Napier has described net.flag as "an emblem for the Internet as a new territory", and has stated that the idea for the project was derived in part from entities such as Nova Roma and other micronation projects.
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