Grafik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way: Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal perameter that comprises its structure.
In other words, random stuff mixed with random stuff is REALLY random. The fun part is that your brain keeps trying to put them together anyway.
April 21st, 2005 at 5:57 am
well,
there is such a profusion of dada art on the net recently, i am starting to get tired.
but thanks for the link!
new-art.blogspot.com
(visit me some time!)