Monday, November 20, 2006
Project 404 version 2
After viewing all the real error messages, I have decided to return to the style of the blank site I made earlier in the project (which is now online here).
..because:
..because:
- The site was becoming increasingly focused on layout and design - a "pretty" thing, rather than the conceptual work that was my intention.
- I meant to create something real, something believable (afterall, hyperreality is the confusion of the real and fiction. How can this happen when something looks "fake"?). The errors needed to look authentic.
- The blankness - the white pages, black text - reflected the lack of an idea more than the newer version.
- Removing the graphics allows the user to focus on the text, the words, and forces them to consider what they mean, and how this relates to my idea.
- After trying out the Flash version of 404, and feel happier with the previous blank site, so I feel it shouldn't be rejected, but refined.
- Already having much of the pathways in place allows me to create more routes to give the user a wider choice
- While my knowledge of Flash has increased over the past year, I was still struggling with the creation of a functioning site. I have been working with HTML for years, and this is where I feel at "home".
- What is the point of creating a Flash site that could just as well have been made in HTML and CSS?
- I've seen the original Blank Site have a much more powerful effect on people than the Flash version, and since net art is about the viewer's response, it seems foolish to alter the most successful aspect of my work.
// posted by Jade @ 9:39 PM 
