I've had the nice task of going over introductory modern art texts for a program entitled Visual and Digital Arts.
Sadly, none of the overviews included web art as a genre. I wasn't too surprised, but I am at least pissed.
Technology and Art was well represented but web art was completely missing from every overview.
Now I know these overviews are perfunctory at best, but I thought, given the coverage my own work had garnered in Art Mags, POP journals etc. that web art would have at least gained some credibility.
When www.Interaccess.org showed the the first Web Art in 1997 as a form of expression, included in the Images Festival of that same year, well I believed web art was a viable art form. Unfortunately, it was the tech based artists that led the defence of the status quo. Web art slowly disappeared from commentaries of new media.
The argument was that web art was just a software specialty that used the screen in a albeit new but minor way.
My argument was that web art was a space defined by new expectations and usability and fell completeley outside current screen activity. It was new. It had it's own verity, its own unique ebb and flow and its own virtual identity.
Well 10 or 11 years later web art still exists sadly below the radar of the art world. Does Whids and Rivers yes/no have an explicit place on the web or could it exist outside the web? It could, but the clunky thing they talk about is lost. But thats really not enough, clunky things are ubiquitous.
Making a case for the noumenal place of web art is tough, but it is important at this juncture.
When we observe web art are we contending with artistic questions of valorization?
Is web art just a mash up of many computer based technoligies. It doesn't have to be, see http://www.netarts.org
Is web art , when it's original, too technically demanding to get engaged with. Or is it just not what we expected?
Paintings, films , videos, installations are all very *not web*.
So what is web art? Does it exist or was it just a dream I had?
See this piece, it fails everywhere outside of the web, but still references Micheal Snows " La Region Centrale"
http://webhome.idirect.com/~artseen/skywriting/skywriting2.htm, like blind july
http://www.edymond.com/artseen/blind.htm it can't exist outside the noumenal sphere of the web.
Joe
(AKA Eric)
Misunderstanding web art/ the screen
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the people will tell you, you are miles from your home.
when will you share the sites with us?
when you will you hold us in your arms?
miles from out home.
I've had the nice task of going over introductory modern art texts for a program entitled Visual and Digital Arts.
Sadly, none of the overviews included web art as a genre. I wasn't too surprised, but I am at least pissed.
Technology and Art was well represented but web art was completely missing from every overview.
Now I know these overviews are perfunctory at best, but I thought, given the coverage my own work had garnered in Art Mags, POP journals etc. that web art would have at least gained some credibility.
When www.Interaccess.org showed the the first Web Art in 1997 as a form of expression, included in the Images Festival of that same year, well I believed web art was a viable art form. Unfortunately, it was the tech based artists that led the defence of the status quo. Web art slowly disappeared from commentaries of new media.
The argument was that web art was just a software specialty that used the screen in a albeit new but minor way.
My argument was that web art was a space defined by new expectations and usability and fell completeley outside current screen activity. It was new. It had it's own verity, its own unique ebb and flow and its own virtual identity.
Well 10 or 11 years later web art still exists sadly below the radar of the art world. Does Whids and Rivers yes/no have an explicit place on the web or could it exist outside the web? It could, but the clunky thing they talk about is lost. But thats really not enough, clunky things are ubiquitous.
Making a case for the noumenal place of web art is tough, but it is important at this juncture.
When we observe web art are we contending with artistic questions of valorization?
Is web art just a mash up of many computer based technoligies. It doesn't have to be, see http://www.netarts.org
Is web art , when it's original, too technically demanding to get engaged with. Or is it just not what we expected?
Paintings, films , videos, installations are all very *not web*.
So what is web art? Does it exist or was it just a dream I had?
See this piece, it fails everywhere outside of the web, but still references Micheal Snows " La Region Centrale"
http://webhome.idirect.com/~artseen/skywriting/skywriting2.htm, like blind july
http://www.edymond.com/artseen/blind.htm it can't exist outside the noumenal sphere of the web.
Joe
(AKA Eric)
web art is not chosen
chosen becomes web art
so that's the problem.
we are not chosen.
we are not beautiful.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaubertoplasticartist/
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