The transition from "outside" to "inside" is metaphorical on-line and the advantage of linking would seem to be the ability to link in both directions. What they don't take into consideration is that in the physical building people do not materialize in the doorway, they come through some mode of transportation - walking, taxi, bus - and from the "outside". Most institutions want to keep visitors within their own "space". It is an "entrance" to the rest of the project yet most of the links will take a visitor elsewhere. " i o l a " is the foreground ( red) platform and is a personal curated interface with the rest of the Internet through links to articles, e-zines, books and projects updated on a daily basis. This may not be very illuminating (or even logical) but it is my perogative as an artist to be oblique. So a better term would be potential and that's why I subtitle this project "a potential museum," a "house of the muses" that is based not on a collection, education, connoiseurship or any other aspect of our current institutions but on what the muses (the daughters of memory) promise - potentiality.Īs for the use of "tumbleweed" the only reason for using it I can give now is that a tumbleweed only exists in motion, when still it's a dead bush. In the end "unreal" and "universal" may mean the same thing in that the term "universe" is a metaphor for what we can't wholly comprehend, a lie we tell ourselves to avoid thinking the unthinkable. My definition of virtual would be closer to "universal," meaning a museum of the possible. It will be one model for what many think of as a "virtual museum." I use this term with hesitation but acknowledge that it has become common to think of an online representation as something virtual, meaning unreal, and is a result of thinking in terms of multimedia CD-ROM and other forms of digital delivery that have become current but are not necessarily applicable to a networked environment like the Internet.
On potentiality rather than simulation and is a para-site of theĬollaborative domain as well as the Internet. Possibilities of a personal multi-dimensional on-line ecology based "Project Tumbleweed" is an evolving investigation of the My primary focus at this time is the development of a project with the general title "Tumbleweed" that is organized to be accessed through a foreground platform, an index and guide called i o l a (and yes the html tags for italics are part of the title) but will have any number of methods of access in the future. This work of net.art has been donated to The Walker Art Center
0 kommentar(er)
