collages for the new millenium

here are some collages. feel free to view them. there is even an essay commenting on them. but before you go and check them out, may you would enjoy some light reading?... (now, on with the show!)
these collages are not your average cut paper collages... or even the modern collages created with photoshop. these are web collages. they consist of parts of webpages and images that ahave been reorganized and redisplayed, usually creating works that are unrecognisable from thier originator sites. the presentation of the materials reminds me of superbad. but there is less of a feeling of connectivity through out the peices... because each is meant to be a seperate work, where superbad is one work on its own.
these works play into the deconstructive and sometimes subversive nature that is very apparent in web art, especially in the earlier years, which is when these were created. sometime in the late 90s. and the idea of the collage is very appropriate for this. When collages were fist presented as art in the early 1900s they were very much as commentary on pop culture and a subversion of the current painting status quo. this idea can be seen again in these new technologically inclined collages. they steal from popular websites and mix parts together to create a commentary on the culture of this then new medium of the internet.