1. Bad Flash

2. Gratuitous Flash Intro -http://www.kmb.hk/ Exploratory Experience -http://www.gazing-into-raindrops.com/flash.html -good for art, but bad for information design Lack of Flexibility -http://www.martielotoledo.com/ -the “tv” phenomena -why the pop-up window? -http://www.undocorp.com/ -does flash add value to this site? -very smooth -lots of user feedback -extremely bulky and inaccessible

3. 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!!

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

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

6. 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

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

8. Hybridization: best of both world –http://www.infotube.tvhttp://www.infotube.tv –http://www.forensicdesign.comhttp://www.forensicdesign.com –http://www.peelinteractive.com/

9. Flash Resources online -NetdiverNetdiver http://www.netdiver.net/ -flashkit http://www.flashkit.com/index.shtml

10. Web Art?

11. Michelangelo’s David Your uncle’s Chinese brush painting

12. 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.

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

14. Toys: –Jodi: first generation web toy –www.yugop.comwww.yugop.com –www.modifyme.comwww.modifyme.com –www.sodaplay.comwww.sodaplay.c –www.phantasian.comwww.phantasian.com

15. A little more than toys: –High Concept Design/Aesthetic Exercise Matt Owen’s Volume One –www.volumeone.comwww.volumeone.com Anything by Tomato –www.tomato.co.uk/ –Info Art: www.erational.org/software/flexplorer http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/

16. Lenses Hello Mr. President -http://www.hellomrpresident.com Silophone -http://www.silophone.net Works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer http://www2.alzado.net/evparticipar.html http://www2.alzado.net/evparticipar.html