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ABSTRACT
Alt_Img_Tate is an alternative way of looking at an art gallery's online image. It shows the gallery as writing that normally goes unnoticed. Alt_Img_Tate randomly searches the Tate Modern web site looking for "alt" tags. These are the texts that appear while a picture is loading or if the user has opted not to load graphics whilst browsing. Alt_Img_Tate searches through the hundreds of web pages in the Tate site. It selects one and then selects a random "alt" tag. If no tag is found it will display "No_Alt_Tag". (If it cannot open a web page it displays "PLEASE_WAIT..." and tries again.) It shows a new tag every few seconds. [The work is written in Perl and Javascript]
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BIOGRAPHY
Wayne Clements is an artist and a poet. He has recently completed a PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. His subject is the computerisation of the 'text machine'. His recent net-artwork has been included in: FILE Electronic Language Festival, 2005, São Paulo; Rencontre Festival, 2005, Paris/Berlin.
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