Searching Beyond My TOP FIVE
Writing and Editing for Digital Media. This is the subject I’m currently completing, the impetus for the creation of this blog and the force responsible for introducing me to a range of web-related “stuff” I was previously unaware of. Words like Del.ici.ous, Kwoff, Inqisitr are now in my vocabulary. Acronyms like CSS and PHP are no longer foreign and scary.
I am also exploring the web a lot more than I did previously. Perhaps shamed by Google Chrome exposing that my top 5 websites visited were fairly uninspiring; limited to email, news, social networking sites… I have found myself trolling around on the web more.
I wanted to share a cool site that I just discovered. It utilises web 2.0 technology and is an example of the way in which artists are embracing technology and constructing new forms of artistic expression via the internet.
Leonard Solaas is an Argentinean artist who works primarily in new media and electronic art. He believes that although Buenos Aires is an “enormous city that is far away from almost everything” there is always the internet…
This site is a fantastic example of how the internet disseminates information and ideas to build a community of like-minded individuals.
The “interactive” art… his most recent projects… is my favourite.
How did I stumble upon this site? Through the blog I’ve been following: Art Fag City. Exploring these fantastic connections and linkages between different sites uncovers some pretty cool “stuff”.
Also on AFC’s blog this week: excusing bad art just because it’s contorversial and how galleries are a part of this conspiracy through the “authority of the exhibition space”.
Personally, I cannot stand “gallerinas”… the horrid breed of species employed by several ”top” Melbourne commercial art galleries for the sole purpose of making you feel like you don’t belong in their gallery space.
One of my favourite spaces in Melb is Linden Contemporary in St Kilda, a welcoming and warm gallery where you don’t even have to pass the admin desk inspection in order to view contemporary art. If someone such as myself, with four years of academic education in visual arts and art history feels uncomfortable in certain galleries, how is an average Joe supposed to feel at ease? Elitism in art is so two centuries ago, claims AFC… and it just so happens, I agree.
