Heath Bunting: A Visitor's Guide to London: 1995

The net.art piece entitled A Visitor's Guide to London was created by Heath Bunting in 1995. Heath Bunting is a very interesting artist who is extremely well known for his artwork in London where he was born and raised. A Visitor's Guide to London was created by Heath with no funding from other sources other than himself. Heath claims "The work was six months of walking around London with no particular aim."

Although this net.art piece says it is a guide to visitor's there is no way it could actually function in this manner. It is an "irrational guide to London" as Bunting would say. This artwork allows the viewer to interact with the piece by having to click to pick which direction they want to go. Each time the viewer clicks the direction they want to go it supposedly brings them to a picture of the street in that direction. Sometimes you are given up to eight different directions to chose from and then other times you are only given two. In some pictures you can tell exactly what is going on and where you may be at and in other pictures you are left wondering where you are at and what you are looking at. I believe that this guide would most likely leave me very interested in the artwork itself but completely confused when it comes to actually following it's directions.