Friday, March 2, 2012
Web Intervention
What's interesting is how he presents his information and how he discusses the culture change throughout the years. It's amazing how much has truly changed and how more interactive the web has become, in addition to the major players and social networks like facebook and twitter. Hard to believe someone could narrow down a play-by-play of how the internet has changed, pretty remarkable. The use of different page layouts really helps get his point across and helps to interact and engage with the reader, which is smart considering the subject itself might be passive to some. Good article. As for the project, interactivity would be an area of interest for sure. Look forward to seeing more examples for inspiration.
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Harrison,
ReplyDeleteI think interactivity is a good, if broad, subject to explore. Perhaps taking another look at McLuhan will provide some ideas when examining his comparison of more-and-less participatory media. It's hard to know what direction to encourage you toward since interactivity is such a broad idea, but I could see something addressing it taking a lot of forms, whether you make a piece that is in fact interactive, or something in a medium that discourages interaction/participation but addresses that conflict somehow. It might be worth examining how a piece, regardless of medium and interface, encourages people to interact with it in some way. Arguably, all art is interactive on some level because the audience is responsible for deciding and constructing the meaning of the given piece, but some works might fill in more of the gaps for the audience. When we think of interactive art, our first notion might be to think of an artist like Golan Levin, who creates really complex interactive sculptures and installations using robotics and various programming languages, such as the Interstitial Fragment Processor, or the Dumpster. But on a less complex level, a really simple example of an artwork that encourages interaction might be Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. It doesn't directly address technology, but a situation like this could be framed in such a way to do so. Maybe this gives you a place to start thinking about some of these ideas. I'll check back here if you have any questions.