Re: Web evolution, was: RE: Talking about Bandwidth

[Troy Bennet]

Jim Beck wrote:

> 

> I quite agree with most of what you said, and am glad you responded. First

> of all, I need to clarify what I meant (and i think what Carrie did too) by

> "eye candy" - I don't mean stuff like rollovers, graphics, etc. (more on

> that later...). I mean sites that are dedicated to art and aesthetics -

> sites as Carrie so aptly put - that exist solely to "satisfy the appetite

> for art." (that's not an exact quote - what she said was better but

> hopefully you get the point). In your post below you write  "...somebody

> pushed the technology." my point is that that "somebody" wasn't artists

> (unfortunately) - it was business, driven by the quest for money. Hopefully

> artists and those of us who appreciate art will also benefit from

> technological advances - I think we will. But in my view we won't be driving

> the bus.



Jim,


Our site is a not for profit student publication exploring art, humanity and technology.

no $$$ in it for us (grades are still a kind of incentive though)


I think the ideas of how technology, art, and humanity intersect is interesting.


hope I can get the dang thing fully up soon.



http://espritmillennium.ml.org/work/Esprit/intro.html


only the essay section works right now.  There is a wait after the intro animation

at the Mcluhan quote, about 20sec.



troyb


troyb


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