Artist Response 12

For my final Artist Response I want to return to discussing websites made in flash. I am drawn to creating websites in Flash over CSS style sheets because it brings a life to the website that is harder to achieve in the later. If one website can show how flashy flash can make a website. Air Atlantis's Splash page is one of the best I have seen and it is effective in describing what the website is about. Some splash pages only serve as decoration and do not have any function whatsoever. The website loads very fast and the pages are also interactive. Each web page is on the level of some sites splash paintings. They are dripping with detail and creativity and show the staff's advance knowledge of graphic design.
Websites are art that even anyone can see and admire. It's open to anyone as long as they have a computer and interenet connection. I dream that I will be able to achieve the level that these creators have. The examples of their works in the site is also very creative, beautiful and illustrational.

http://www.air-atlantis.com/

Art Response 11

Tivon Rice is a new media artist who works mainly on video installations. One such work is called "Between Here and a Kind of Fleshness." Three projected displays show images of a dog's bare teeth. The three images change throughout the progression of the piece. Besides the images of the moving mouth, there is also a serene capture of water moving in the darkness. Alongside these images are white subtitles. The substitles do not necessarily have anything to do with the images displayed. The image are also accompanied by sound of the dog's growls. The artist's site provides images and videos of the instillation but there is still a desire to see it in person. A projected instillation loses it's power when seeing it over the internet. This instillation reminds me of the installation projects that I worked on earlier in the semester. I believe that installation is now become a bigger part of the gallery space and gallery exhibition. It can be just as artistic as non new media works. This work was inspired by Eliot’s The Dry Salvages. It was created in 2009.