Schwulst, My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge.
What could yours be?
In this article, Schwulst discusses the possibilities of a website
considering that many people only see it in a very structured way, when
in reality it has a huge amount of possibilities where it can go. The
author uses metaphors to explain these, like a plant that might grow
flowers, a garden, an ephemeral puddle, or a rock falling deep in the
water. Many people, including artists, often feel things need to be more
complex in order to be real, or “official,” but often, it is a lot more
simple that one may think. At the same time, the author considers artists
are the people who have the mind and creativity to think exanseviley and
openly about what a website can be, and save the web from homogenization,
commercialization, and segregation.
I believe the web is actually a great tool for artists since it becomes
a global voice, and interconnecter message. Most people have access to it,
more than the people who have access to museums or galleries. Although,
for some artists this idea of using the web to make art may be intimidating,
since it's less tangible, and also for the associations that people have
with it.
Qs:
In which way does the web connect us, considering the author's claim that
"the internet is made up of individual nodes: individual computers talking to
other individual computers"?
For an artist, what are the limitations, and the benefits or using the web
to create art? Is is the artists' role to be both, "the architect and the
author", simultaneously?