Thursday, April 5, 2007

I can't get it to work!

I've been trying all morning and all last night to get the homework assignment to work, but I can't! In any case, I think I get the gist of what it does regardless. This piece primarily uses the internet as its medium; it could've been done in other ways, but they would have been exponentially less effective. For exmaple he could have chosen a store and replaced all the prices with "oil prices." This would not have been as pervasive, and it also would not have involved the consumer at all. With this version, the consumer has to actually download the software out of curiosity. Without the internet, the audience may not have known what they were looking at or why; they may not have had any real interest in it. Finally, the internet is available to almost everyone in almost every country, so that makes his project that much more available. This ties in with the internet article because it reflects the internationality of the internet (the fact that anyone can access this piece for little or no cost). It also reminds me of the first internet users, who turned it into "an electronic mailbox" essentially, and this piece seems to embody that in a way. It's downloads are sent out in little packages to anyone who is curious; it's like a more modern version of the mailable art we just finished.

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