Art, Fun and the Internet

It seems to me that the Internet is doing more for the art/play connection lately. In fact, I'm beginning to believe that, along with the broadening of bandwidth, the Internet has become an invitation for artists and art appreciaters to create new forms of gloriously graphic, interactive fun. Witness this work, called "An InterFace of my significant other."

Go to the homesite - Alterfin - and click on "org" - note the title "Art & Play"- mouse and click around a bit and you'll get a good sense of how this one artist, Yariv Alter Fin, pursues the art-play connection. For further evidence, see this collection of QuickTime clips. Alter Fin even extends the art-play exploration into poetry with "This is My Voice."

If you don't want to take this one instance as proof of the Internet's influence on the Art-Fun connection, click your way over to the Symmetry Lab and then play around on Jim Andrew's site. Try his visual singing synthesizer, his experiments in Langu(im)age, and the Major FUN Award-winning interactive poetry game of Arteroids (you now use the "X" key to shoot).