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Your Favorite Net.Art?
worm eater asks: "About four years ago I became interested in trying to discover art sites on the Internet. Not sites that deal with art, but sites that are art. After many hours of searching, I stumbled on a few that I enjoyed: jodi.org (although this one currently appears to just have a cool little downloadable screen-distorting program for Mac OS 9) so you might want to try, a few of these groundbreaking and sites. [Note: Beware of <BLINK> tags!] Recently, my interest in this genre of art has been reignited. What is your favorite piece of net.art?"
The 2nd link appears to be basically a web, with numerous links if you click on text inside the various hubs.
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Dunno if this counts as art, but it is as bizarre as those links: http://www.turnofftheinternet.com
I admit when I first saw the article, I had thought it was asking about favorite good art sites, was thinking about mentioning my favorite artist's site.
Although somehow I doubt the general reader would be interested in looking at a scaly (aka "herp") anthromorphic art site, which does have some..er..adult content, despite the art being very good quality imo.
Not even sure if it's allowed to post links to such a site, but if you are interested just do a google search for "Kaa Starhunter" (artist plugs Mozilla btw
Deviant Art is more of a gallery. I think what the poster was getting at was sites that are art, not that contain art.
On a related note, Hell.com used to be one of the best 'Web as Art' sites out there, and it led into a whole rat's nest of other sites, all as snazzy as it. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone away.
It's interesting to look at sites like these -- I always feel like I've wandered into an issue of wired magazine, only with more movement and blink tags. Kind of post-modernist, avant garde, art deco 'busy-ness' brought to a new medium. Sometimes it hurts my eyes.
All joking aside, If we are talking Internet art (sites/computer/etc)
Couple sites I think have artistic value.
1. 3d modeling should count, and I really like skinshack the 3dmodels people design for counterstrike. It is art after all, but its the downloads not the site. I liked weapon-hacks, the 3d work was amazing, but with CS sites going down, its not up anymore.
2. As a site that looks like art, Go-l.com Looks kinda like apple.com, but the site is pure eye-candy, which is art in my eyes. (And the specs for the machines are eye-candy as well, geek think...)
Why do all of these so-called 'Net.Art' sites look like 'modern art', which is to say, they look like they were done by a 12 year old newbie making a personal webpage for the first time?
This is crap. Modern art is also crap (in some cases literally). If I wanted to see random ASCII art or bad photoshop jobs I'd go look at SomethingAwful or Fark. Not Art. It's not. I promise. Even less than the teen love ballads that Britney sings are music.
You want to see Net.Art? Check out some of the personal weblogs and websites out there. Maybe they're not the most useful or navigable things in the world, but that's not what art is supposed to be is it? There is often a lot of effort put into making them look pretty/slick/professional.
Random and weird software I've written.
That's not art. That's just a urinal.
That's not art. That's just a black square.
That's not art. That's just a soup can.
That's not art. That's just urine.
ad nauseam
If websites can install spyware without your consent, your browser choice is seriously fucked up.
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