The web truly has fulfilled the futureist promise as a method by which the masses (providing they are wealthy enough to afford the expensive accesses equipment) can communicate with the world at large. Hmmm . . . unfortunately no one has yet to develop a technology that has increased the quality of people want to communicate.
I remain highly skeptical as to the value of this media as a tool for art and self expression. But as you can well by reading this that I'm experimenting with it regardless, I hope to someday vanquish my skeptisizem. Laurie Anderson has noticed that artists are increasingly be called "content providers" by those who wish to take part in the web and yet have nothing of significance themselves to express. Like Laurie this amuses me greatly and somehow I like it. Could this be how artists finally receive higher status in our society? Could we go from being "No good subversive artists", to "valuable content providers". Hmmm . . .
My own experiments have shown me largely just how limited the digital media is. Regardless of how may hippsters scream about it I still find that in most cases (not all!) digital media is but a pale shadow to it's traditional counterpart.
I've done a piece I call touch and put it on the web. It goes against almost all of my belief concerning web design. I feel as though web pages should be intuitive to use, focus on content, not tricks, and be widely accessible regardless to how you access the web. I for one still use lynx while accessing the net on an XT. Touch uses all kindsa tricks & requires nasty things like java and shockwave plugins, not to mention the fact that the files needed are absolutely huge and if your using the net via a modem I wouldn't even bother trying, you might even have to wait if you have a T1 or better connection. More silly things: Playing with a scanner.
How about some Photography.