Superbad

Superbad is a noted web art installation created by graphic designer Ben Benjamin in 1997. Superbad.com received a 1999 Webby award in the "Weird" category, and was one of nine websites featured in the Whitney Museum Biennial in 2000. Superbad began as a test bed for Benjamin's web design for technology corporations; his clients ranged from E! Online to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. The installation uses images from Japanese pop culture. The website serves primarily as an artistic work that was produced using the tools and methods of web design. This genre of art is often referred to as web art. The site consists of a veritable maze of inter-linked visual, conceptual "subprojects" ranging from two-tone and technical-looking to wacky, colorful, and even bizarre. Often a subproject will have clickable elements linked to other pages within that subproject, or to another, or that just provide visual richness (e.g., the "follow" subproject has a grid of circles with arrows that follow the mouse cursor; each circle is a link to a different page within the site). Some of the pages contain narrative elements. There are 143 different pages, with the main page serving as a hub to the subprojects. Clicking anywhere on the "bad" will link to somewhere within each subproject.