Concepts for the net generation.

I realised after a while that my website was horrifically 1.0. This isn't nessicarily a bad thing, cultural nostalgia is rife in the art world, but what struck me is the fact that my peers, as web users have no idea how a basic html site navigated with click through links works. I generalise a little but most people never got past the first page (epilepsy educing graphics aside).

Perhaps in my mind owning a website is still a sort of nerd badge of honour, a very 1.0 concept. The overlord of the domain supplying the page's whole design and content is a long forgotten archetype.

So an update: the site is now aesthetically more 2.0 oriented, perhaps giving the user the impression of utilitarianism which seems so prelevant in today's net culture- the notion that: If I cannot interact with it in some way what is the point?


But the site is still only interactive on a very basic "choose your own adventure" books level. And perhaps that's why I've hit a bit of a blockade the last week or so.

I'm hesitant to go into flash or javascript just yet. Partly because I'm already in at the deep end with HTML and partly because of plugins and memory and assorted other issues. But it really may be the next step. I did always want to make video games. Perhaps the next step is a totally interactive artwork, residing within the platform itself.