re creation
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re creation
"re creation" was a study in the distinction between "existence" and "is". Visual artists and poets paired off and worked to recreate the experience present within art objects. Visual artists recreated poetry in visual media, and poets recreated visual art within words. The basic question was: Can the same experience of existing appear in two distinct art forms?
The exhibit ran for three weeks at the arteVISTA gallery in downtown Montreal. Its creator and director, Angus MacCaull, came to Montreal to pursue his studies within Landmark Education.
re creation of re creation
When it comes to putting art galleries on the web, common problems include: information delivery, content authenticity, and something that actually works. Webmasters become obsessive in making a glorified web site, forgetting that the only person who can enjoy their finished work is an internet web visitor with a state-of-the-art personal computer and a high-speed internet connection. Galleries are often turned to thumbnailed images, forcing artwork into a database, robbing it of the visitors' experience. re creation on the web needed to be:
simple and easy
A web artist can make killer looking images that blow away any design school, but if visitors can't figure out how to find the front door, you'll have a museum that will never need its floors waxed. re creation on the web had to be obvious and easy to navigate. Besides, most people surfing the web are illiterate (if you are reading this far, we're very impressed).
fast and modem friendly
Not every web surfer has a super fast personal computer with high-speed internet. Web sites that take forever to load, well, people just get bored and go away. A grocery store with low prices isn't great if all it has is one checkout counter. High-resolution images are futile if only 5% of the visitors can enjoy them. (If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? If a web site has graphics galore, does it get any visitors?)
accurate and realistic
Web sites can make great organized databases, however that doesn't work at all for artwork that is chaotic. re creation on the web had to deliver the same experience, so that the web visitor was really in an art exhibit, and not an index table of contents. You will notice few words, and no text where unnecessary.
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