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Take a square, 100 pixels x 100 pixels, and do something with it. What to do?
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Hey there, dig the concept. If you ever want some collaboration, I'd love to participate.
I think, with a better site design, that you're on to a great idea.
Hi Chris, thanks! Keep an eye out for a week somewhere down the line where we solicit contributions. For now, the main opportunity for collaboration is in the Comments. Actually, there are some blogs I read primarily for the comments.
The site design issue is an interesting one, actually. When I thought of this blog-project, I wanted to focus on images that were intended specifically for this format - small, low res images. Anyone dealing with the web knows that small images that are overly pixellated are the main "problem" with art online, so I thought it would be interesting to create a blog that takes those constraints and celebrates them. As a printmaker, I'm always interested in issues related to the choice of the appropriate medium for the image that the artist is trying to create, and so I thought this would be a good forum to explore the tiny and the digital.
So what does that have to do with site design?
I chose a pre-packaged blogger template with the basic features (title, comments, labels, contributors lists and links, and so on), thinking it would be interesting to see what could be done with all of those elements as possible zones of creative expression. Given the raw material of the "blog", how could each element be used for its strengths? To "design" the site as a frame for the images would be to create a content for the images that would in some way predetermine or influence the results. I didn't want a design that said "art", I wanted a design that said "blog". By not designing the site, the blog elements are better open to creative exploration. Which, by the way, we've barely begun, I'm sure.
Basically, by avoiding a design that says "this is art", and embracing a design that says "this is blog", we are better able to think about the questions of what is unique to a blog that can be used for art?
So do see what can be done with the comments. I don't know, and I'd like to find out!
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