Monday, March 24, 2003
Online Zoology
"...humankind's recent discovery of the World Wide Web has entailed a concomitant investigation of its fauna, and the birth of a new field, online zoology. SINGLECELL is a monthly bestiary of these newfound species: a collection of online life-forms discovered and reared by a diverse group of computational artists and designers."
This "Online Zoology" is a computer-unique art-playform, and clearly Major FUN-worthy. Though I try not to have favorites, Golan Levin's Objok was the only one that I found to be singularly funny, on a cellular level; Martin Wattenberg's Sand Shrimp is a minor masterpiece of simplicity and illusion, while Ed Burton's Life Line lies somewhere along the border between sheer silliness and even sheerer sexiness.
SINGLECELL is the first volume. DOUBLECELL is the second.
Play on.
This "Online Zoology" is a computer-unique art-playform, and clearly Major FUN-worthy. Though I try not to have favorites, Golan Levin's Objok was the only one that I found to be singularly funny, on a cellular level; Martin Wattenberg's Sand Shrimp is a minor masterpiece of simplicity and illusion, while Ed Burton's Life Line lies somewhere along the border between sheer silliness and even sheerer sexiness.
SINGLECELL is the first volume. DOUBLECELL is the second.
Play on.
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