Interactive Drama

http://www.marcuswendt.de/project/crave

The computer’s unwavering analytical approach, the disquiet of surveillance cameras and the poetry and intimacy of the sound of the words inflicts a tension on the beholder. He perceives in the installation at first a well produced drama, than reality, his direct vicinity and eventually himself; just as wandering off thoughts, a similarly banal examination of reality, amusing or embarassing moments. It’s a poetic perspective on everyday things, forgotten things, human things, showing the (unconscious or hidden) pecularities of the other and demanding respect of the beholder by granting disrespectful insight.

this is the work of the same guy who found and blogged the thinker. y’all should check out his blog, infostuka.

Wikipedia, Google and the like are great for school research projects, but the true power of the web is still in connecting people, and people are the best aggregators of cool stuff.

This guy, who’s German by the way, reads blogs, takes inspiration from them, and then puts them on his on blog for passers-by or subscribers to read, who then might blog it themselves. This just happened, and now it’s trickled down to you. Don’t you feel lucky to know about some random German guy’s art project?

It’s all a big circle of communication/inspiration/general goodness, which nowadays, in the internet age, happens at hyperspeed and without physical boundaries. Speaking of boundaries, though, there still is the language barrier. Perhaps getting past that is the next step. (See meaning markup language) Who knows, no one would have thought the internet was possible even 50 years ago…

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