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Is the Web still the Web?
Oh, sure. That's the "We Are All Artists Now" thing. I totes agree.
I remember thinking that about MySpace: "Here's a whole new internet." But it's sort of just like AOL Homepages or Geocities, only I think the audience has shifted. It's a cultural-penetration thing. I go to school with kids born in 19 fuckin' 88. You know? Those are the people driving this change.
I remember thinking that about MySpace: "Here's a whole new internet." But it's sort of just like AOL Homepages or Geocities, only I think the audience has shifted. It's a cultural-penetration thing. I go to school with kids born in 19 fuckin' 88. You know? Those are the people driving this change.
Is the Web still the Web?
I dunno. I started coding in Notepad, so I've always felt this way. I think it is a bit of overreach. I need to read it in context. I find it odd that everyone is quoting Olia all of a sudden, did she just write a book or something?
Is the Web still the Web?
I've been looking at the Web in terms of why it fails for newspapers.
A significant contributor to this is the fact that 65% of traffic to a newspaper comes from Web hits driven by Google, which links directly to one page on the site. In other words: 65% of traffic doesn't care about your "home page." Couple this with the growing trend (Japanese advertisements are already reflecting this) for companies and users to use "search terms" to find a page, rather than URLS, and you have a new understanding of what the Web is: The Web is actually just a bunch of content for Google users.
The plus side: It's actually decentralized. So, the question is redundant. The Web isn't still the Web. The Web is finally becoming the Web.
I think a JODI rule (oxymoron?) in the old days was to make sure you have a domain name. I wonder if that is still the punk-rock truth. I feel like making art on a variety of servers and hosts can be more interesting now. Just make sure you tag your metadata.
A significant contributor to this is the fact that 65% of traffic to a newspaper comes from Web hits driven by Google, which links directly to one page on the site. In other words: 65% of traffic doesn't care about your "home page." Couple this with the growing trend (Japanese advertisements are already reflecting this) for companies and users to use "search terms" to find a page, rather than URLS, and you have a new understanding of what the Web is: The Web is actually just a bunch of content for Google users.
The plus side: It's actually decentralized. So, the question is redundant. The Web isn't still the Web. The Web is finally becoming the Web.
I think a JODI rule (oxymoron?) in the old days was to make sure you have a domain name. I wonder if that is still the punk-rock truth. I feel like making art on a variety of servers and hosts can be more interesting now. Just make sure you tag your metadata.
The Genius 2000 Conference 2008: Shakespeare
Which I think ties in to the idea of the "epic" as a function of written, non-editable art whose medium serves as a metaphor for fate and inevitability (taking a cue from McCluhan). Wikiality cancelled the epic in net.art. So the "novel as history" metaphor becomes ... what? The network isn't history, because it is too malleable. So what is it? If we find that out, we might be able to rebuild a new kind epic within the network.
"The network as present" is as close as I can get.
"The network as present" is as close as I can get.
epic net art
Now this is an interesting idea. Looking forward to examples from you and/or Marc on how certain pieces of net art are innovating on epic notions by breaking them, with an eye to the contours of those breaks.
My whole point is that it probably won't.
My whole point is that it probably won't.