Welcome to my Homey Page:
Seven Years of Paperrad.org
"Welcome to My Homey Page: Seven Years of Paper Rad" presents seven individual home pages from paperrad.org, each one taken from a year in the website's life, 2001-08. This interface, which provides a glimpse into the prolific production
of the artist collective Paper Rad, was produced by Rhizome for the New Museum's First Look program. The project is presented in conjunction with Rhizome's preservation of the Paper Rad website in their online archive, the ArtBase, which will launch November 28, 2012.
Paper Rad's video Welcome to My Homey Page (2003) opens onto a tweenage girl sitting in front of a late '80s desktop computer. In an excited, conspiratorial tone, she announces that she's about to hit "the F25 key" implying that the viewer should come along for whatever ride this might produce. We watch as one deft keystroke unleashes a torrent of animation, with skulls,