Re: FLASH: Technomelancholic Sigh.

[Kurt Dommermuth]

Well put Laura.  Thank you for reminding me of even greater possibillities.


Kurt

http://www.dommermuth-1.com


>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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