If you’re reading this website, then chances are we don’t have to tell you that the browser you’re using can be so much more than a mere tool for navigating the online world. We’ve seen tons of artists and programmers pushing the creative possibilities of browsers with add-ons and in-browser artistic experiences, allowing you to turn that lowly browser into a bonafide virtual exhibition space.

But here’s a creative use of browsers and interfaces that we haven’t seen before: Russian artist Anatoly “Tolia” Demidov deconstructs the components of your typical browser and rearranges these piecemeal fragments into inventive, interactive, slightly absurd-looking works of art. Some of our favorites feature trail-glitched Street Fighter II video game characters, multimedia modified Korean dictators, the father of electromagnetic waves, and many more comical, and sometimes pythonesque, juxtapositions. We applaud Demidov’s ingenuity and ability to take the familiar and functional and turning it into something surreal and playful.

[via Today and Tomorrow]