Online communication/art
Can a website be a form of art... I think so.
I design and develop websites for a living with Box-head*.
I was considering whether it would be appropriate to showcase some of my work (sites) on here. When you hear the word “website” you don’t immediately think about it as a piece of art (if ever for that matter). I thought about it for quite some time and drew some comparisons between a “traditional” art piece and a website with the intent to discover if they could come under the same “banner” ART.
Now I may be thinking too generally but hear’s what I determined. An art piece communicates, it is brought to fruition through a thought process (collaborative or individual), and it serves a purpose (perhaps just to reveal the emotion of its creator).
I realise that there is a wealth of other characterstics we could define but lets stick to these BIG 3.
Think now about a website and some of its characterstics, and chances are (as I found) that those 3 would be pretty high in the list. So as video, photography, music, sonnets, architecture etc can and are considered art, I too would list websites.
My mini waffle aside, here’s some of my most recent art:
The Bivouac
This is handmade
Samuel Fisher
Wave Media Productions
Feel free to challenge my thought process in the comments!
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