Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Jim Punk
Jim Punk’s art is interactive. On the surface, as with his website and a few other pieces, he creates an interface for the viewer to click around and have some amount of control over how he/she observes the art.
This control, however, becomes an illusion very quickly. One click could result in a chaos of colors, sound, pop-up windows, and more content then you can wrap your mind around. The promise of one piece, a collaborative blog called screenfull.net: “we crash your browser with content.” Though my browser didn’t crash, I, was indeed overwhelmed. One critic commented: “Screenfull’s ability to zero-in on the parodic vulnerabilities of their subjects supports the aim to disrupt the corporatized conventions of online display, or, in their words, the desire ‘crash your browser with content.’ ” Read the rest of this entry »