[syndicate] Andrej Tisma: Web.Art's Nature

[Andrej Tisma]

Claudia Westermann wrote:

> 
> so what happens if one places a computer in a museum ?
> it is kind of context change, or is it not?
>
 
If museum's computer is online it is still web.art. If it is off-line it
is like a reproduction of a painting. Same thing is if web.art is on CD.



>
> 
> are you referring here also to the fact that the work might be further
> developped by the artist and what one can explore as a user at one moment
> might be an intermediate state of a work.

Development is always possible


> perhaps then the work is not menat to be archived ?

Yes, by archiving the work we are freezing it.

>
> 
> ok I think this is important, the different works not only exist in a
> context of other
> web pages ( commercials, companys etc... ) but also are referring to other
> art works,
> so yes maybe this way building up a net in the net

Not just that, but a web.work is also unlimited by space or time.

> 


> 
> there is not so much of collaboration in the the web art circles actually,
> seems to me,
> well there are some doing this, but most of what one can see today is
> rather done
> in a traditional way ... one artist in a studio ...
> Am I wrong with this ? So actually the question i would ask. Is this web art ?
> or perhaps it's web art but not net art ?

I have a very good experience in collaboration with Andy Deck, a New
York based artist. We did several works together, and also visitors to
that work can leave their contributions in form of text and images.
See PLAYOUT at: http://www.artcontext.com/playout/
It is changing almost daily.

> 
> and then the next would be:
> is it perhaps possible to archive web art ( museum style ), but not net art ?

Don't ask me about museums, don't ask birds about golden cages.

Andrej