2026 Whitney Museum of American Art - artport: A History of Internet Art (Opening November 21st, 2026 in museum)
2002 Whitney Museum of American Art - Whitney artport
2003 Bank Gallery, Los Angeles
website, archival prints
Conceptually, GoodWorld is an idealistic wrapping of the Web. Similar to Christo's planting of giant yellow umbrellas along a California highway, Goodworld forces a frantic website into a child-like vocabulary of color and abstraction. It strips a site and replaces text and images, presenting a new work entirely. The ‘dominant’ image is redrawn in red, magenta, and yellow.
Read the artists statement here.
By Lew Baldwin
Programming by Charlie Killian
For many people, the online experience has become a bombardment of pop-up windows and sneaky ad tactics, i.e. seemingly endless spawning windows, fake windows, etc. We've grown accustomed to being interrupted by flashing ad banners selling investment services while reading the latest news about a pending nuclear attack. Goodworld neutralizes the Web by wiping out content and unifying all pages into one creation. Hence the whole world becomes a 'Good World' in the eye of the artist -- or possibly an unsettled dilution of the safe and familiar we've come to expect.