Bad Flash

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Bad Flash
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• Gratuitous Flash Intro
• -http//www.kmb.hk/
• Exploratory Experience
• -http//www.gazing-into-raindrops.com/flash.html
• -good for art, but bad for information design
• Lack of Flexibility
• -http//www.martielotoledo.com/
• -the tv phenomena
• -why the pop-up window?
• -http//www.undocorp.com/
• -does flash add value to this site?
• -very smooth
• -lots of user feedback
• -extremely bulky and inaccessible

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Why HTML? -efficiency in storage, update,
delivery -accessible for search engines,
translation tools, and non-browser based
devices -easy to personalize and
reassemble -users have all the control!!
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Why not HTML? -wants to be ugly -not designer
friendly -wants to be static
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The worlds most popular sites dont use Flash.
In fact, they look primitive
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Tsunami. An installation by Tom Mayne of
Morphosis Conflict and tension are useful
concepts in many fields of design. For
example straight lines vs irregularities order
and rhythm vs exceptions
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Web pages can be seen as a conflict between
forces that are rigid, utilitarian, and
authoritative vs activities that are dynamic,
organic, and fluid
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• Hybridization best of both world
• http//www.infotube.tv
• http//www.forensicdesign.com
• http//www.peelinteractive.com/

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• Flash Resources online
• -Netdiver
• http//www.netdiver.net/
• -flashkit
• http//www.flashkit.com/index.shtml

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Web Art?
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Your uncles Chinese brush painting
Michelangelos David
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• What is Art Anyway?
• In the gallery? Beautiful? Relevant to society?
• We live in an era in which art is difficult to
  appreciate

Marcel Duchamps bycicle wheel.
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• Spectrum of Web art
• Toys
• (celebrate what technology can do)
• Lenses
• (revealing things otherwise invisible)

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• Toys
• Jodi first generation web toy
• www.yugop.com
• www.modifyme.com
• www.sodaplay.com
• www.phantasian.com

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• A little more than toys
• High Concept Design/Aesthetic Exercise
• Matt Owens Volume One
• www.volumeone.com
• Anything by Tomato
• www.tomato.co.uk/
• Info Art
• www.erational.org/software/flexplorer
• http//www.potatoland.org/shredder/

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• Lenses
• Hello Mr. President
• -http//www.hellomrpresident.com
• Silophone
• -http//www.silophone.net
• Works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer http//www2.alzado.
  net/evparticipar.html