[-empyre-] dialogue

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I do wonder where all the real net art has gone to?
it isn't interactive any any more and i tend tho think that that is not 
productive or healthy. why dont artists want to have dialogue - is it about 
control, are they scared of being questioned. will/has internet art as we 
knew it becomes a blip on the electronic radar like umatic video -quickly 
forgotten by everyone.
and the internet itself becomes merely a delivery medium  for commercial 
content -with limited interactivity. just like a million channels of bad 
cable.. nasty to contemplate.

but then it is also hard to have a dialogue in a language you don't speak. 
the internet and internet art was supposed to be graphically based to get 
around that problem.

f.d


> seems that the art projects themselves reinforced these dialogues and
> this ideal. Many early works, in the tradition of communication arts,
> were based on the possibilities to connect people together. Recent art
> projects, many of them at least, are less based on the web as a tool >for
> communication than as a means of dissemination of narrative film-like
> works (Generation Flash).  They don=92t necessarily encourage two-way (or=

> multiple) connections but rather, like the film, a type of
> creator/viewer relationship that leads to  =93isolation=94, which is >not
> something bad in itself, just different, and somewhat opposed to the
> global network ideal.

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