Re: FLASH: Technomelancholic Sigh.

[Laura Mollett]

> Part of me wants to believe that it is possible that one of these days one

> of us will come up with an animation that has the power to move us.


Different strokes for different folks, of course (and saying nothing about

those pieces recommended for your viewing that I ooh and awe be jealous of

as well :) but I still think the true "artwork" of the web/net is in

creating a multi-user environment, a new kind of society. In those places

where we yes laugh and cry and get upset and fall in love and look on in

wonder together - the whole gamat of human emotions - in creating not

something you look at, or something you listen too, or something you watch

but something you experience, a kind of concert where the viewer is part of

the creation. Pieces of those are in the interactivity of every site and in

flash chats, and ecommerce sites, and the databases, and multi-user games,

and the things that aren't comic books and aren't novels and aren't games

and aren't films or television, but are something else altogether new. I

think we're all creating a little of it even when it just seems like we're

"taking care of business" - our piece of code, our design, our work that

moves the whole forward just a little bit and the "art" isn't finished yet.


Laura


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