When it comes to art on the Internet, there are many different approaches that can and have been taken. After looking through the list that I received through class, I decided on three Web-artworks to review in this blog.
The first website is www.whitehouse.org, which was created as a project by the Yes Men. When you compare whitehouse.org with the real website of the Whitehouse, whitehouse.gov, it is a bit funny that .org is actually a better looking site and its content is much more enjoyable than the official.gov site. I really enjoy the Yes Men's approach to this and their other sites and feel that their satirical style is dead on and helps to get their points accross.Whitehouse.org is full of great entertaining content and the numerous sections and categories could keep a viewer reading for hours.
The Website www.agencyoforphan.com takes a fairly simple approach to address a serious issue. The homepage, and the pages that are linked to it, seem like something that myself and fellow students would be able to accomplish, yet it is still effective in getting the point across. This site and its layout will be helpful in brainstorming for our next assignment.
Brody Condin's Website, www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/ is one that I really enjoyed. While I've never played Counter-Strike before, I know people that were virtually addicted to the game and took it extremely serious. The fact that Condin developed anti-military Graffiti that can be entered into the game and appear on the walls is really impressive. Its amazing that something as simple as a few "tags" on the wall of a game can compel players to send hate mail too opensorcery.net goes to show how effective it really is. People take the game so seriously and by reading the "flames" on this site, just goes to show how involved people get with just a game.
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