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Web brilliance It certainly is. Says Michael Blowhard:
The time has finally come for traditional artists to give up the fight. To just lay down those clunky old analog tools. What’s the point in carrying on a battle that’s already lost?
Go here and do what Michael says.
This one is my favourite. Mouse click on one of the row of dots at the bottom, and enjoy.
Michael again:
Whew: interactivity, beauty, wit, play, moods. And more art ‘n’ talent ‘n’ creativity on display here than in —
OK, I am raving. Still: pretty darn cool.
Indeed.
Anyone here know of other stuff like this?
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Notwithstanding the obvious technical nous of the designers and the severe limitations of their medium, I see little here that merits the term, art. What I DO see, however – and see constantly in the modern production of art – is a kind of slavish, public adherence to the religion of clever notions. We don’t have to pretend that this stuiff, which in one form or another we’ve been served for the last hundred years, is the real thing when the evidence of our own eyes says it isn’t. We don’t have to pretend that the revolution that destroyed art as human beauty and the beauty of our world was, as so many people like to say these days, cool. It was a wrong turn and a disaster for the western intellect. The advent of web art only continues the trend.
This opinion is expressed with far more force and eloquence, and with some truly staggering examples of real art, at http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2001/ASOPA/bad_art_good_art1.asp
Try Sodaplay . It’s been around for awhile, but is endlessly diverting.
What is the boundary between Interactive Art and Virtual Toys?
Note to self : after previewing, go back and change the link tag, as preview seems to blogger it.
The link is Sodaplay
2 comments: for those on dial-up [and we are MANY], bloomin’ waste of time unless one has a load of laundry to do in the meantime…..
just another demonstration of more Glitz, Flash, and Bang without content is depressing…..
These two musical sites are interactive:
infinite wheel and Amon Tobin.
At the Amon Tobin page, click “old site”.