Bad Flash

Gratuitous Flash Intro - Exploratory Experience - -good for art, but bad for information design Lack of Flexibility - -the “tv” phenomena -why the pop-up window? - -does flash add value to this site? -very smooth -lots of user feedback -extremely bulky and inaccessible

Why HTML? -efficiency in storage, update, delivery -accessible for search engines, translation tools, and non-browser based devices -easy to personalize and reassemble -users have all the control!!

Why not HTML? -wants to be ugly -not designer friendly -wants to be static

The world’s most popular sites don’t use Flash. In fact, they look primitive

Tsunami. An installation by Tom Mayne of Morphosis Conflict and tension are useful concepts in many fields of design. For example: straight lines vs irregularities order and rhythm vs exceptions

Web pages can be seen as a conflict between forces that are rigid, utilitarian, and authoritative vs activities that are dynamic, organic, and fluid

Hybridization: best of both world – – –

Flash Resources online -NetdiverNetdiver -flashkit

Web Art?

Michelangelo’s David Your uncle’s Chinese brush painting

What is Art Anyway? In the gallery? Beautiful? Relevant to society? We live in an era in which art is difficult to appreciate Marcel Duchamp’s bycicle wheel.

Spectrum of Web art: Toys (celebrate what technology can do) | Lenses (revealing things otherwise invisible)

Toys: –Jodi: first generation web toy – – – –

A little more than toys: –High Concept Design/Aesthetic Exercise Matt Owen’s Volume One – Anything by Tomato – –Info Art:

Lenses Hello Mr. President - Silophone - Works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer