about webart

"WebArt" plays with the network of webpages or the single webpage as an interface. A webpage consists of a code describing its form and content. It has been the globalwide most easy to understand example as descriptive (html) and as executable digital code (javascript). The content linked with other pages becomes a hypertext of contents: of texts, images, videos, audios and other thinkable digitally coded media.

The webpage became a standard format changing the conditions of our cognition. For instance, as a graphical interface on a screen it becomes a metaphor for "the window" between analog and digital. It changes our culture when we learn to use webpages to interprete the world. It is not exactly the same as learning to interprete photographies, but structurally in some aspects it is comparable. It is influenced of cultural codes defining how and what we learn to see on such page.

Web art reflects the changing meaning of text and image. It may be fine net art at times. When limited to formal design of surfaces, for me usually it is not enough.

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