Week 10: Net Art Project Reflection – Hannah

www.no-limit.org from Ubermorgen on Monoskope Net-art

The project I viewed appeared at first like an ordinary photo gallery or music webpage. Below an esoteric photo of modern art there are two paragraphs, one English and one German, starting with “evil transcends our imagination.” When I coincidentally hovered my mouse over the text as I was trying to read, the letters began rapidly warping into nonsense and slowly reordering themselves back into text when I removed my mouse. The background also flickers from black to gray occasionally. As I kept scrolling down, I saw more photos of art pieces in a museum of shorts and text in German that addressed me a the president. To be entirely honest, I don’t know what to make of the project and I feel that I’m missing some important context. I then noticed some links on the page which led me to more interesting pages, including stories of people’s experiences/perceptions that in some sense harbor evil. I still don’t fully understand the context of the piece, but the message appears to be a statement on how external factors influence people to become “evil” and imparts sympathy to them.

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