The Time in the Web Art Works that Grab,and Process Data from Internet - 1/4

hello list,

I wrote this text for a discipline of the Fine Arts course. Some of you
helped me with hits about artworks, so now I am sending the text to you.
I will send it in 4 parts.

bye, and thanks for your time,
andrei

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TEMPORARY ISOLATION X CONTINUOUS FLUX
The Time in the Web Art Works that Grab and Process Data from Internet,
in Real Time


1. Introduction

Many works of web art deal with data generated when viewer interacts
with them. The movements that the viewer executes with mouse and the
answers sent through the keyboard can be used to change the work
development, to create images and make sounds. Several kinds of sensors
and cameras bring information from external world, information that will
be part of works that deal with telepresence and related questions.
Consultations to Google are done aiming to get texts and images that
will be shown, after suffering diverse kinds of manipulation, to the
viewer.

Among these diverse ways of grabbing and working with data generated in
real time, we selected some works that use information grabbed from
Internet, to analyze the way that they are related with time and
viewer's context. What changes come up by the fact that we see the
result of an almost instantaneous processing and that we are in front of
works feeded by the continuous flux of information that constitutes the
Internet? How are these works related with their context and with the
Internet's context? What differences can we point in relation to the
works of art (not necessarily web art works) that deal with static
structures, data and shapes, that don't change along a day, neither
along the years?


2. Some works of Web Art that search and process data from the Internet
in real time

We tried, in selecting the works of web art that we will study in
following, to choose works that incorporate the uninterrupted flux of
information from the Internet to their poetics, so this flux is an
important question to the work, and not a 'collateral effect